Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NYSE: GRMN), today announced a collaboration with Titleist, the No. 1 ball in golf®, to bring enhanced compatibility between the Approach® R10 launch monitor and Titleist’s Pro V1® and Pro V1x® RCT golf balls. By using the Titleist RCT’s radar capture technology, golfers receive a more precise measurement on their Garmin Approach R10 portable launch monitor, including up to a 30 times more accurate reading of spin rate and up to a 50-percent increase in carry distance accuracy.
The Titleist RCT golf ball is optimized for indoor spin capture and engineered for radar-based launch monitors such as the Approach R10 to provide the most accurate golf ball data.
The award-winning Garmin R10 is a lightweight portable golf launch monitor designed to help golfers improve their game at home, indoors or on the driving range. With more than a dozen key metrics1 shown in real time, including club head speed, ball speed, swing tempo, ball spin, launch angle and more, golfers of all skill levels can fine-tune their game.
Since its initial launch, Garmin has added several new features as well as compatibility with third-party software to the Approach R10, including:
- Updated Driving Ranges – The Approach R10 has been updated with new preloaded driving ranges to help practice a wider range of shots.
- Landscape Mode – View shots in a first-person perspective in landscape mode; perfect for users who want to project their simulation onto a screen.
- Environmental Settings – Golfers can better control the environment with new settings to account for weather conditions that affect the ball flight calculation.
- Home Tee Hero – With an active Garmin Golf™ app membership, players can utilize the Home Tee Hero golf simulatorto master and enjoy 42,000 golf courses worldwide.
- E6 Connect – Utilize the E6 Connect’s library of content (sold separately) to easily play photorealistic courses at any time.
- Awesome Golf – Play and compete with friends and family with an Awesome Golf subscription (sold separately).
- TGC 2019 – Play 150,000+ predesigned courses or create your own challenging course with TGC 2019 golf simulator software (sold separately).
- PinSeeker App – Compete for cash prizes and enjoy online closest-to-the-pin tournament play with the PinSeeker App.
Garmin customers can purchase the Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x RCT golf balls through authorized Titleist golf shops globally, as well as here. The Approach R10 is available now for a suggested retail price of $599.99. Learn more at Garmin.com/golf.
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Jay’s Thoughts
This is exciting information coming from Garmin. Previously as they stated in documentation using a metal dot or tracking ball would actually hurt spin accuracy. Clearly they have found a way to integrate this now with their radar and hopefully it give a high level of spin accuracy indoors which everyone surely would love to see.
Now, keep in mind we are talking about backspin, no spin axis. Even high end units like Trackman 4 that are using the RCT ball are only using it to increase backspin readings, not side spin. So the Garmin R10 might still have a little difficulties with gear effect like we have explained in the past. With no way of knowing a driver shot was hit off the toe and not measuring spin axis the Garmin R10 most likely will still have a larger margin of error for spin axis. I think as long as everyone is aware of this there is not issue with that. After all we are talking about a $599 unit that provides some solid data based on our testing. Stay tuned for a new video coming soon where we will put the new RCT capabilities to the test!
Thanks for Watching!
Jay
Update 9/8/22 1:30pm
It looks like te 4.3 update has been released and includes RCT Support. See below.
1The Approach R10 requires a paired compatible smartphone downloaded with the Garmin Golf app.
