Trackman optimal numbers driver fitting

With so many choices for todays golf consumer, a fitting with trackman can provide immediate feedback to find the proper club and shaft that performs best for your particular swing. Dec 08, 2014 rory mcilroy shares tips to improve your drive golfpass. For irons, distance control and trajectory control for advanced players is what is more important for irons fittings imo than trying to achieve specific numbers for spin and launch and thats even assuming that the fitting was done with the same ball you normally play with. Using tps on an osx device is not supported by trackman support, all information above is a workaround that may provide the option to use windowstps on your osx device. Here are some numbers to shoot for if you are trying to optimize your driver distance. Which begs the question, are they really as optimal as they could be. Driver example golfer a has a club speed of 100 mph and a smash factor of 1. Jul 16, 2019 in todays golf world, maximizing your driver distance is truly a matter of science. Trackman educational series driver fitting and the numbers. Miles of golf has been collecting driving data for gam tournaments for 5 years. Flightscopes trajectory optimizer is a golf ball flight trajectory program. Based on scientific algorithms, flightscopes trajectory optimizer will help you find your optimal ball flight trajectory to add distance. When you say the trackman is the number one launch monitor in the golf equipment industry, i assume youre saying you think it is the best. But just how would the launch monitor quantify its brilliance.

Specifically how is the launch spin determined to be optimal. Chris starts by measuring your current driver s characteristics. Jan 16, 2016 i couldnt find any optimal lm numbers for irons. Using the trackman and titleist 9 drivers, we have an unbeatable combination to achieve these optimal numbers.

Optimal driver numbers on trackman andrew rice golf. Numbers provided by trackman are available from driver to pw. Oct 31, 2017 optimal spin depends on club speed and attack angle. To maximize distance with your driver, hitting up on the ball positive attack angle is a must. Mar 08, 2018 official driving distance is only measured on two holes per round, which means you might get 5060 shots in a year. Meaning did we transfer all of the energy from the club to the golf ball. Chris starts by measuring your current drivers characteristics. May 30, 2012 optimal driver numbers on trackman may 30, 2012 andrew rice with so many questions after my two most recent posts i thought it would be enlightening to show you what we see when using trackman. A trackman fitting could help add yards to your drives. Gam trackman data miles of golf has been collecting driving data for gam tournaments for 5 years. Trackman is used by over 100 pga tour professionals including 3 of the 4 major winners in 20 as well as tiger woods and rory mcilroy, all major manufactures to test their equipment and fit their players, and the pga tour to produce the majority of their statistics. The trackman combine has become the quickest way to transfer training on the practice tee to performance on the golf course.

They go to a location that has a bag of demo clubs, hit a few on the driving range while the club fitter watches their ball flight, and then make a selection based solely on length of the club, lie angle, shaft type, and grip size. Custom fitting with trackman david brooks golf academy. Ball speed mph attack angle deg dynamic loft deg spin rate rpm launch angle deg carry yards. After a few swings i was hitting all my optimal numbers except ball speed, which was above optimal. We measure your key club and ball perfomance factors with trackman, and utilise a wide range of head and shaft fitting options to find the best performing driver for your game. Understanding what your trackman numbers should be a good start to. Paul jenner goes though all the parameters that need to be dialed in during a driver fitting. The only way to get the most out of your drives is through the use of a launch monitor. Let us build you a driver that suits your eye and outperforms anything you have played before. I play a callaway epic driver with a very light, 40 gram, x5ct regular shaft, 10.

Make sure you get the best trackman experience, by keeping an eye on the certification level status. When you think of all the time spent obsessing over spinkilling shafts and driver heads on internet golf forums. Trackman locator try trackman find a trackman certified. As with my iron fitting, mark first had me hit my own driver several times to establish a baseline performance. Pgatour average swing speed is 112mph and they hit all their clubs 90 feet in the air. When looking at driver fitting many principles from an iron fitting. I was worried i was perhaps spinning it too much as the ball flight monitor mind you was high, but i do want the ability to get the ball way up in the air, especially on tee shots. But what if you could increase your driving distance with 30 yds off the tee without. Tga currently operates in both louisville, ky and rochester, ny. I look for draws to launch to the right of the target. Dresser golf titleist club fitting pxg club fitting. David toms was the most efficient driver on the pgatour in 2012 and at 100 mph he would have averaged 278. While an overall improvement strategy often incorporates both, swing analysis focuses primarily on identifying opportunities for skill development while considering club fitting principles in a general sense. So club speed is the one thing that will be the driver behind gaining.

This will produce higher ball speeds, long carry distances and an optimal landing angle for maximum bounce and roll. How to achieve optimal ball spin with the driver using a flightscope or. Dynamic driver fitting the goal in a driver fitting is to maximize both distance and accuracy. Miles of golf feels one of the very important parts of fitting a customer for a driver is the length of the driver. The range here for solidly hit golf balls will vary from the low 1.

A large sample of fittings conducted at ping over the past year shows that players averaged an increase in total driver distance of around 11 yards, and averaged 9. My ball speed was 1745 with a callaway rogue driver but optimal ball speed was something like 167. Heres an interesting thought however if you look at the ubiquitous trackman optimal numbers, then not one of them has an optimal smash factor of 1. Justin thomas talks trackman numbers, when hell switch to. Until that time, here are some simple rules of thumb to use. Trackmans 10 fundamentals were originally released as part of a 2010 newsletter. Guide to understanding the numbers on trackman foregolf. Face angle is the most important number when determining the starting direction of the golf ball. Mar 30, 2020 my lessons with steve have taught me more than any other lessons ive had before and the trackman is extremely addicting. Royal ashburn golf club club fitting centre trackman. I know many clubfitters with a flightscope myself included, but only a couple with a trackman. The higher the loft of the club, the lower the smash factor is expected to be.

Using these control numbers, he will have you test multiple head and shaft combinations to optimize your launch conditions, while decreasing the amount of dispersion. The swing, club and ball are depending on each other to create what the player wants. How to use a launch monitor to improve your game wishon golf. Several fitting carts are starting to use 7 irons taylormade, adams golf, ping. We can show you how to use the optimizer during your practice session. The main number that i advise looking at when it comes to iron launch conditions has very little to do with launch and everything to do with landing angle, a number that trackman calculates. Here you will find the two different ways to setup your trackman unit for optimal delivery numbers. The lower the ratio, the poorer the quality of the strike and the more inefficient the impact. The other side of launching the ball ideally comes into play from a clubfitting. The trackman driver optimization chart shows a higher dynamic loft number than launch angle number. Using trackman to practice for more distance dlance.

A properly fit driver can have a dramatic effect on distance, accuracy, consistency and confidence. Trackman, used in conjunction with all the shaft and head combinations. With this information, we can recommend the right equipment to help you play better golf by optimising your launch angle, swing speed, smash. The optimal face angle depends on the type of shot the golfer wants play. Understanding trackman data wiz golf performance centre. Hitting my driver, i was struck by the trackman tracer results on the screen in front of me. There is a chart aimed toward carry distance and another for total. Custom fitting with trackman performance studio and high speed cameras leif granstad 1209 the player wants custom fitting for better dispersion control, ball flight and feel of their golf shots.

Launch angle and launch direction are largely influenced by the club face and i like both here. Justin thomas talks trackman numbers, when hell switch to titleist 620 mb irons, and more. The goal of this article is to prepare players for their next driver fitting by discussing. Changes to ball behaviour can be effected in two ways.

I look for draws to launch to the right of the target positive. Trajectory optimizer launch monitor, golf ball tracking. Less than 300rpms at any aoa between a 75mph swinger and a 120mph swinger. Optimal driver numbers august 24, 2015 andrew rice. No longer can you solely go on what looks right to your eye or even what feels right in your hands. A number of factors can influence distance, control and feel with a. Club data is measured in exactly the same way as it is outdoors. Trackman golf the best launch monitor golf radar indoor.

Ball speed mph attack angle deg dynamic loft deg spin rate rpm launch angle deg carry yards club speed mph total yards driver fitting chart. It is amazing to me how many golfers that tell me they have had their clubs custom fit to them, but were really fit the oldfashioned way. Our software can tell any player what their optimal numbers are. With this in mind i created with the help of trackman a chart that i like to use to show golfers how far they are capable of hitting the golf ball. All major stakeholders of the game, without exception, use and trust our numbers for two main reasons. This is a rarity but in such cases, the full fitting fee will be required and the player may return at a later date, free of charge. Most fitting and launch monitor locations have a reference table of optimal launch conditions for a given ball speed posted somewhere. The program will plot the flight of the ball in real time after the users input of the initial launch conditions of the golf ball. A former tour pro told me he hit a tree branch off the tee that knocked his ball down, and it affected his average for the whole year by 15 yards. Driver loft 9,5 degrees and launch angle around degrees. Jan 02, 2015 learning how to teach with the trackman.

What flightscope and trackman can tell you and me golfwrx. The company was established in 2003 with the sole purpose of helping golf professionals understand more about this critical moment in time. Launch conditions for irons often get overlooked however. Trackman has a long history of working with golf radar technology. A golfer would hope to achieve a smash factor near 1. With this in mind i created with the help of trackman a chart that i like to use to show golfers how far they are capable of hitting the golf ball with their current club speed. My swingpath i believe it was was around 23 he said that was a sign of me coming from the inside and my face angle was 46 and it produced a nice draw. It requires 3m of ball flight to take measurements. Trackman 4 technology in the callaway performance center. We use trackman4 for all our custom fit sessions, the ball flight data helps us work out what way our customers hit the ball. At around 108mph i think 88 feet high works very nicely. The key to maximising driver distance is achieving the optimal launch angle and spin rate. Buying a driver with launch monitor feedback and clubfitter input takes a lot of guesswork out of the process and offers a clearer path to a more enjoyable golf game.

The fit of the club is also an essential piece of the puzzle. We have data for the 2012 mens gam championship, the mens gam senior, and the boys gam junior championship. This means if your swing speed is 75 miles per hour, you have the potential to hit your drive at least 185 yards. Today steve put a driver in my hand that went 27 yards farther than my cobra hence the fitting name hititlonger. To hit a straight shot, the face angle should be zero. Use our locator to find a certified trackman facility, operator, coach or fitter near you. I guess my cliffsnotes question is, what is the optimal spin rate and launch for a 3 wood in the range of 102mph. Use the search field in the upper left corner or zoom in on the locator map to show the facility list. Optimal spin depends on club speed and attack angle. Find your weaknesses and enforce your strengths compare yourself to the pros. The hawks power fade remains unrivaled for its shotmaking splendor. We use this information in our club fitting, but it also tells players something about their driving skills. Anyone who knows anything about fitting knows that hitting the middle of the club face yields the best ball speed. In other words, at 100 mph of clubhead speed, a solid blow will send the ball at 150 mph off the face of a legal driver.

That means for a 100 mph club speed the ball speed would be 150 mph. They are not targets or any specific optimal numbers. Titleist ts2 and ts3 drivers with trackman results duration. I know that people rarely getting fitted for distance for irons. Trackman has an optimizer feature that can really help you understand just how much distance you can gain by optimizing these factors. If you would like to see the optimal numbers for your club speed and attack. Trackman takes a radar signature 40,000 times per second and provides 26 detailed data points that allow us to clearly see performance differences between equipment. Mar 14, 2019 golfers today are much more aware of what ideal launch conditions should be on a driver. But in my case, i need more distance with my 2 iron. I was hitting my driver on a launch monitor in golfsmith not trackman yesterday, and it said my spin was around 2800. There is a chart aimed toward carry distance and another for total distance. One was the relatively small variation in optimal backspin for widely different swing speeds. I would say one place is trackman data driven, but they try to upsell, and. Smash factor is a players ball speed divided by club head speed.

I went on a launch monitor the other day with my titleist driver, and had numbers like 104 club speed, 150mph ball speed 1415 launch angle and. The data is based on thousands of shots from ranges all over the world. Occasionally players will show up for a club fitting and be having an off day and cant be properly fit for clubs that particular day. In the future, mygolfshafts apps will automatically adjust for 7 irons in making shaft recommendations. The goal in a driver fitting is to maximize both distance and accuracy. Golf world magazine asked us to write an ultimate clubfitting guide to the main numbers that are produced by trackman and other launch monitors. Converting 7 iron launch monitor numbers for use with mygolfshafts apps. This is how far pga and lpga tour players hit it with. The ball will launch very closely to the direction the club face face angle is pointed at impact. The driver s loft should be chosen so that it complements the golfers attack angle. That your optimal launch trackman stats are dependent in part on the way you swing the club how fast, and in which direction. The pros might be bombing the ball with their drivers, but recreational golfers are still lagging far behind.

I did a fitting of a new 5wood and i really got good numbers according to the fitter on the trackman. Official driving distance is only measured on two holes per round, which means you might get 5060 shots in a year. Maximizing driver distance using a trackman or flightscope. The trackman golf radar not only helps map these key data parameters ball speed, attack angle, club path, face angle, etc. Here is chart of optimal numbers for driver fittings depending on club speed.

But what do all those numbers on the launch monitor screen mean and how. Our guide to maximizing driver distance goes over every single way you can add distance to your drives. Trackman data can be split broadly into two categories. Trackman combine is a standardized test that enables you to identify the strengths and weaknesses in your golf game.