GarminApproach® R50, Premium Golf Launch Monitor and Simulator, 10" Built-in Color Touchscreen Display

Editing my previous review. 5 stars!Just know that you may need to up the elevation to get your yardages right. Once I moved it to 4300 feet elevation, the 20 yards short problem went away and I hit my stock numbers.Can’t wait to see what comes next.

Fast shipping, arrived next day! Absolutely amazing, I highly recommend this product! Super easy set up and works like a charm! Garmin support team is amazing as well!

Had to return it as I tried to work with Garmin Support to figure out why and was getting no where.For lower iron shots it was not bad. Actually, SW, GW and PW it calculated distance out a bit longer than reality.Mid irons was pretty much spot on.Where it suffered the most was long clubs like Driver & 3W.. and a little bit with other longer clubs - but not as bad as the driver.Was having to swing like a gorilla to get 225 at best. So not sure if it was just a bad unit or not, but was not getting the right feedback from the support team. Ball speed on the 225 was at 140 mph. Which is really not possible. And yes, there are many other factors too, but when you take into account a 10 degree launch angle - most all other factors still don't equate to 225 total distance.One really positive note - never missed a ball I hit with the 3 camera system. Was very solid there.When I intentionally wants to go left to right or right to left, it picked that up well too. Shanks to fat, etc.. all pretty solid.Has a camera system that allows you to play this back on the screen so you can see the ball impact from the club.This is a sticker system, them you get stickers to put on the top middle of each club to help with club head speed.One really solid feature is that you do NOT need a computer in order to hook this up to a projector - comes with it's own HDMI port.This product has a LOT of promise! It's kinda a one of a kind product in the space right now. You'll see a lot of GREAT reviews of it. And I'm sure most of them are solid/legit reviews. But I had to report my frustration and findings just to be fair. After all, if you want to play golf using the Garmin Golf SUBSCRIPTION plan you need to get (99 a year or around 20 bucks a month) you want to be able to get off the tee further than 200 to 225 yards or otherwise you're in for a very long day.Btw, one other thing I did not like was the resolution and the practice round treatment. I want a launch monitor that shows a crisp clean ball flight away from the ground up and this did not give me that. It really should be much higher resolution.Now the amount of data points you get is very impressive. Along with the camera view of ball impact, as well, this picks up all ball contacts and even putting - yes, putting works here too.Btw, Home Tee Hero (Garmin Subscription Required and you get over 43k of courses) you don't put, you have two circles one that covers the outside of the green which is you hit in that you get 2 strokes putting (gimme) and a smaller circle that gets you 1 stroke putting (gimme).

The Garmin Approach R50 is the real deal. It seems to be extremely accurate and very user friendly. The only Con would be that it confirms how bad I am at golf.

Easy setup and use. Very accurate. Highly recommend

Compared to Garmin R10, the numbers were never accurate. Look on the Garmin forums and found others experiencing the same problem. Contacted Garmin support and they recommended I return the unit. Wouldn't acknowledge a problem. Were unresponsive after I sent them screenshots comparing different clubs to the Garmin R10. The numbers on the R10 are typical to what I see on the driving range and course. The crazy thing is that the R50 is picking up the same ball speed and launch angles. I think part of the problem is that it has way too much of a draw basis. Until Garmin figures out their software it just isn't usable.

I like the machine and I tried to overlook it but it freezes up too much! Had to send back.