By Ed Travis
When using Trackman indoors, whether honing your swing, undergoing a sophisticated club fitting, or playing a course on a simulator, the ability to capture accurate spin rate has been somewhat less than desirable. The measurement provided has been considered unacceptable due to variability and error. Spin rate affects many important factors of ball flight such as; carry distance, descent angle and trajectory height. If spin rate is inaccurate data for ball flight will also be affected adversely.
Spin numbers are important, especially for better players, to maximize distance and control. Until now the best way to ensure accurate Trackman spin rate was to paste shiny markers on the ball.
Titleist has come up with a better solution. Working with engineers from Trackman, they added radar reflective strips between the cover and the mantle of the two most popular balls on the professional tours, Pro V1 and Pro V1x.
“Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x RCT golf balls combine the game’s greatest combination of speed, spin, and feel with new technology that more consistently captures precision performance and golf ball data from TrackMan units used in an indoor setting,” said Jeremy Stone, Vice President, Titleist Golf Ball Marketing. “We have worked closely with TrackMan for more than two years to optimize this embedded radar reflective, patent pending technology. The result is a reliably strong ‘signal’ that enables spin capture on all shots.”
If you need the most accurate information from your indoor golf simulator, or practice session, the new Titleist RCT, Radar Capture Technology, Pro V1 RCT and Pro V1x RCT are in stores now and retail for $64.99 per dozen.
