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I would like to know your opinions on which launch monitor you would set up a new, indoor, club building business with, and why?

Good question. I've been thinking of getting one to set up as an outdoors location, and I'm not sure which one would work the best. One thing I hate about most of them, is that they claim to give club head and ball speed both, but in fact they only measure one of them, and "estimate the other". That's not what I would want. I want facts, not estimates. I can estimate by myself, I don't need to buy a launch monitor for estimates. If you find a monitor that measures both, not just estimates one of them, let me know. thanks in advance. Don.

We use the Swing Mate to offset the estimated swing speed of the Launch Monitor which is dead on for the ball speed. That helps us get a better determining read on the golfer/club face.

If I was to recommend the two best Launch Monitors out there for golfers it would be the Vector and the Zelocity. Both are great inventions and give realistic #'s.

Don, at this point I have been considering a kind of dual approach. I have been looking at the P3proswing platform which tracks club head speed as the club head passes over the sensor, in combination with the Vector Pro Launch system, which gets the balls speed from the high speed photos. It gets kind of pricey. I have priced out a cage, with hitting screen, the p3pro, and the vector for about $5k. But it is alot cheaper that one of the doppler radar systems, from what I can tell. I am not sure how much better that would be over say the Achiever II? Or even using the p3pro with the Launch It system, which all total is about $2800. Personally I've only been on the original Golf achiever, which I was impressed with, but the guy doing the fitting wasn't real positive about the machine and was actually considering the much more expensive ProFlite doppler system.
Cur

Thanks for the advice Christian. What Zelocity unit are you recomending, the PureLaunch or the PureFlight?

Curt