Titleist Partners with Trackman to Develop Pro V1 and Pro V1x with Radar Capture Technology

Once again Titleist is leading the entire industry with ground breaking innovation and technology. This makes me so proud to be a titleist owner and player of their products. Just knowing that they are constantly working hard to provide not only the pro's but handicappers like myself with the best products possible to elevate everyones game. It's just awesome :)

A collaboration between Titleist and Trackman, but have you tested it with other radar based systems?

Interested to know if this will also work with other radar based launch monitors that are more consumer friendly in price like Mevo, Garmin, etc

see here:

golfsimulatorforum.com/.../348692-titleist-rct-ball-testing-with-mevo-plus-driver-only

K,

As we mentioned in the FAQ's:

"Pro V1 RCT has been optimized and validated in collaboration with TrackMan. Early testing indicates other radar-based launch monitors may also benefit from this golf ball technology. To provide the most accurate golf ball data on these devices for the indoor golf experience, Titleist recommends utilizing RCT golf balls with TrackMan launch monitors."

So, much more testing is necessary before we can report anything conclusively. Thanks!

This is great and with the indoor golf season just around the corner, the timing is perfect.

How does this help show impact location? I rented a Trackman simulator this weekend and was not able to capture impact location for most of my shots.

Are you talking about ball impact location on the club face? The RCT technology seems to help more with determining a more accurate ball rotation. Ball and club face impact location is a normal recorded on Trackman with ball with RCT; you could always apply some foot powder spray on your club face.

It won't. Impact location is often done by camera-based systems, and is estimated (or "calculated") by radar-based ones because the radar behind the clubhead can't see the actual impact location. This won't change that much at all, except in the amount that more accurate spin data can be fed into the impact-location algorithm to "calculate" the impact location.

You have to disable the camera for the impact location feature to work. It won't capture both. During my fittings I prefer to use the camera and apply some impact tape to show strike location.

This has to be one of the coolest advancements in golf technology in the last few years. I’ve spent quite a bit of time using Trackman and it’s amazing technology and feedback. It’s a great tool for clubs fitting. But to add this extra precision to the data collected is so cool. Great work Titleist, always raising the bar! There’s a reason Titleist is #1!

Just amazing how things keep getting better


DM

absolutely amazing! wow! congrats to Rick, Mike and the Team at Titleist.
such a cool innovation.
P.S. would love to see this technology for tracking your golf ball on the course with an app that gives similar details to the trackman including location, distance, spin, etc.

Proof once again that Titleist's R&D is second to none.

Looking forward to getting my hands on some ProV1 RCT in November :)

This would be great if this tech could be incorporated into places like TopGolf and other ranges like that, where they use limited distance balls that could be re-calculated to give equivalent data if it were a tour ball or the like...

Since TopGolf is owned by cally Golf, I don't see Titleist products being featured there. If RCT is licensed to TopGolf and TopTracer then there's a chance.

I was surprised when I read the headline. This sound like really cool technology and I am excited to try them with the indoor golf season approaching.

I will be hitting balls this winter at an indoor facility called 5 iron in Chicago. Each bay has a Trackman so it should be a good match.

Awesome technology but seriously, guys, $65.99 per dozen. Thanks but no thanks!

Actually $64.99 and do not think they are expecting to flood the market with these balls, maybe a few thousand a year. This is a ball that will last and will allow fitters to do fittings the year round in all markets. They have enough other quality balls they can meet the needs of the masses and they can purchase during the spring specials, when you can purchase four dozen for the price of three.

In fairness, this a limited use product designed to be used indoors and for now, only with Trackman units. Outdoors, the units can follow the standard Pro-V ball down range.
The balls have been testes to work as long as the covers are intact. A fitting service would likely only need one supply per release. If only I could keep my own Pro-V’s for a few hundred shots……

What’s the difference between in accuracy between using a metallic dot?

So, the question that occurs immediately to me is, could this technology be put to use in an "off-label" application that would enable one to find errant golf balls while playing?

Since Trackman uses radar to measure the spin, speed, launch angle, etc., I'd guess that the technology in the ball is simply some highly reflective metallic strips. It's the opposite problem to stealth technology in aircraft design. Instead of designing the shape to deflect radar waves, the objective here is to maximize the reflectivity.

Anyway, perhaps this attribute could be leveraged to locate balls with a radar transceiver.

Anyone at Titleist care to chime in?

So, the question that occurs immediately to me is, could this technology be put to use in an "off-label" application that would enable one to find errant golf balls while playing?

Since Trackman uses radar to measure the spin, speed, launch angle, etc., I'd guess that the technology in the ball is simply some highly reflective metallic strips. It's the opposite problem to stealth technology in aircraft design. Instead of designing the shape to deflect radar waves, the objective here is to maximize the reflectivity.

Anyway, perhaps this attribute could be leveraged to locate balls with a radar transceiver.

Anyone at Titleist care to chime in?

Super excited for these balls. I belong to an indoor trackman sim place, and these will be an asset.

Can’t wait to see these at the simulator I go to! Love Trackman! Way to go Titleist!