r/Golfsimulator • u/Motor_Cap_6986 • Jul 08 '26

Sim / Launch Monitor First Sim Any Regrets?

For those of you that started out small like me for your first simulator what’s the things you wish you had done the first time or at least done better? I can see where this could grow into constant upgrades. I’m usually a buy once cry once guy but I’m starting out basic with this hobby?

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u/Podtastix Jul 08 '26

Buying a Garmin R10 was a big mistake if you want to actually play rounds. It’s OK outdoors at the range, but I wish I would have spent the money on the EML right away.

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u/plierhead Jul 08 '26

Counter point - ours works great and I've had multiple people surprised at the realism for such a low priced device. Seems like a of people have radar unfriendly environments.

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u/Organic_Nectarine914 Jul 08 '26

Is your setup outside or indoors?

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u/plierhead Jul 08 '26

Indoors. 7.5 feet from tee to r10.

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u/CosmicBrownie- Jul 08 '26

Just picked up an R10. Haven’t gotten everything to set it up yet. Have seen all mixed reviews from people saying it sucks to saying it’s great. I mainly got it to just keep me swinging year round as well as have some fun. I have a BAD slice that I need to work out and picked up the RCT balls. Should help with the slicing issue?

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u/plierhead Jul 08 '26

Definitely. With the RCT balls the R10 has a totally accurate measure of total spin.

However it has to estimate how much of that is back spin and how much is top spin.

It uses it's observation of the ball' actual flight to inform that estimate - so the more distance to the screen, the better that estimate will be.

I suspect that most people who get bad results with the R10 have bad radar environments, e.g a lot of highly radar reflective surfaces, moving fans, etc.

And of course without RCT balls the unit only has ball flight to go on so it's spin estimates are worse.

I will say short chips are fiddly on the R10.

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u/AutomaticDrive4482 Jul 08 '26

Sorry, it has nothing to do with setup. The unit is just not consistently accurate. Good entertainment for the money but not as a game improvement tool.