Fitting choice question

[Michael Lutz]

Which would you choose? #1 Indoor Trackman fitting using my gamer golf ball.  #2 Outdoor (on grass) GC Quad fitting using practice/range balls. Thanks for your input.

Michael

[Golfspy_CG2]

Ah. Great question.  If it’s a driver fitting. I’d do the indoor with ball of choice almost every time.   
 

If an iron fitting, I’d probably still lean that way.  The ball is so important for spin and true feel purposes.   Unless there was major concern about the turf interaction of a particular club.   To me premium ball outweighs grass.  But that’s just my opinion.  

[DiscipleofPenick]

I would always pick the outdoor fitting. I want to see what the ball is actually doing, even if it's a range ball. I want to see it and feel it and not just have a machine tell me numbers.

[MattF]

Outdoors to see the flight, the one thing indoors just can't do.

[Headhammer]

Outdoors. I need to see the flight to correct anything, I should have said everything, I'm doing wrong.

[RickyBobby_PR]

Outdoors. I want to see ball flight and how it changes based on the setup the fitter gives me. Trackman has the ability to normalize which will give the results as if the ball used is a prov1.

Trackman indoors isn’t very accurate even with one’s gamer ball. Only way I would do indoor fitting is if gcquad was being used 

[TR1PTIK]

I'd definitely prefer to use my gamer ball (or at least a premium ball of any kind), but @RickyBobby_PR has it right. TrackMan and QCQuad have the algorithms programmed in so range balls can be used and still provide comparable numbers to premium urethane balls. It's not perfect, but it's probably as good as you'll get outside of a Titleist/Callaway/Taylormade performance center (i.e. TPI, The Kingdom, etc...).

[McGolf]

Id prefer indoors. regardless of the ball. The machines are placed in the perceived weak spot environments. 

I would use the track man in door before using the quad outside. 

[RickyBobby_PR]

59 minutes ago, McGolf said:

Id prefer indoors. regardless of the ball. The machines are placed in the perceived weak spot environments. 

I would use the track man in door before using the quad outside. 

Why when trackman has been shown to be less accurate indoors than gcquad regardless of environment?

[McGolf]

On 6/30/2022 at 3:20 PM, RickyBobby_PR said:

Why when trackman has been shown to be less accurate indoors than gcquad regardless of environment?

I would find hard to believe the trackman is less accurate as a radar unit VS a camera unit  outside. Inside the radar units are impacted by fluorescent lights. 

A fix is to layer the cover with metal screen door mesh. This distributes the particles from the lights.