Advanced Golf Simulators
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The GSA Golf Simulator advantage
When comparing systems from other manufacturers to ours the following points should be considered:
1. Does the hitting mat feature true feel grass fibers ?
If the hitting mat has only a short hair grass surface or no grass surface at all then the playing experience will be hard and uncomfortable
The GSA hitting surface
2. Does the system feature both club tracking and ball tracking including vertical launch angle detection ?
GSA systems feature both these with 3D camera ball tracking technology
3. How is putting implemented ?
You will not want to putt from or over the club tracking mat as this will deflect the ball roll.
GSA systems allow you place the ball on a large green type surface for a smooth roll.
4. Does the software feature a full range of top quality high resolution golf courses ?
GSA systems are supplied with over 85 beautifully designed golf courses
5. Does the system require that you hit the ball always from the same spot ?
GSA 3D camera systems allow the player to hit from other surfaces and greens
6. Does the software permit large flight groups ?
GSA Software allows up to 8 players in a flight
7. Does the software allow you to design and integrate your own courses ?
Using the CustomPlay course architect you can create your own course in the GSA Software
8. Does the ball tracking system capture all shots from drives to chipping and putting ?
GSA systems do all that with ease but many other systems require that the ball hit the screen with all shots
9. Is the system affordable ?
Even the GSA systems top of the line system including 3D camera ball tracking is only $5999
10. Is the system modular and upgradable ?
All GSA systems are fully modular allowing a player to start as little as $699 and upgrade
piece by piece to a full feature and professional 3D camera and club tracking system
11. Is the sensor mat/pad in a sturdy strong case ?
-GSA Sensor Mats feature a massive solid acrylic glass 1/2 inch thick plate to protect the internal electronics.
The construction is so sturdy you can drive a 10 ton truck over it!
When you consider that the force of a club on the mat can be as high as 4000 pounds per square inch,
you'll appreciate the need for a very strongly constructed product that can withstand these forces if it is to last.
12. Does the manufacturer claim to measure ball spin ?
If so, inquire exactly how they are doing this.
There's a lot of marketing hype about this feature being bouted around by companies that is very misleading.
Espcecially if the company is claiming to do this without using marked balls and the cameras are not very close to the ball.
A launch monitor may have this cababilty if it (or rather the strobe light) is only inches away from the ball so that it is seeing the dimples on the ball
with very good clarity but if the cameras and strobe light are many feet away then it is not possible using standard affordable machine vision cameras.
Cameras with this capability start at around $ 10,000 a piece and you need at least two of them.
13. Does the manufacturer claim to measure club data but is only using ball tracking cameras or sensors ?
Once again, if so inquire exactly how they are doing this.
More than likely they are just back engineering the ball data to get the club data (ie club speed, path and face angle).
This method is at best just an estimation and not at all accurate
14. Does the manufacturer make claims that seem too good to be true ?
If so then they are most likely not true.
An example of this is one company claiming that their ball tracking cameras are running at 1000 frames per second but the connection to the host is USB2.
USB2 is simply not capable of transmitting camera image frames with usable image resolution at anywhere near this rate.
And most (even very good) machine vision cameras are not capable of a CCD frame time of anywhere near this rate no matter how small the camera's AOI (Area of Interest) is.
They also claim that they are the only golf simulator company in the world who develop and write their software themselves and in-house.
As this particular company is very aware of our product line and that we have written every line of code ourselves, they are simply not telling the truth.
While we cannot confirm it, we are aware of numerous other renowned golf simulator companies that indeed do write and develop all their own software.
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Hitting Area.
You will find that quite a number of golf simulator manufacturers make systems that allow you to only play the ball from one confined spot.
This is anything but optimal and thus we recommend only choosing a simulator that does not have this restriction.
For a true life like golfing experience you should be able to play the ball from surfaces that at least resemble the surface of the ball's current lie on the course.
The above image shows the basic GSA multiple surface layout comprising of fairway, rough, sand and putting surfaces.
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