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I did have an opportunity to get one very limited golf "fix" while on my little Orlando excursion. I went to the Golfsmith Store there 'cuz I heard that had them launch monitors.

If you ever go to their store in Orlando, allow an extra 45 minutes. That joint has the worst parking lot I have ever seen. It's in a strip mall thingie. It's like they let Ernest T. Bass be the civil engineer on the project or something. It literally took me 45 minutes to get out of the mall complex.

Anyway . . .

I don't understand launch monitors. I hit about 8 balls before some kid that looked like his face got into a fight with a staple-gun ran me off. (I was skeered.) I hit one ball that I felt like I mashed. It said it went 127 yards??? Then I hit another that felt like I cold topped it. It said I carried it 283 and it went 336? Huh? Do lauch monitors have cart paths in there or something? I ain't never in my whole life hit a ball that far. Other than boucin' drives over a frozen lake.

Am I a launch monitor tard?

What's y'all's experience been?

That's kinda why I've never tried one. I trust my 5 senses more than I do a machine, especially if the results are interpreted by a $7.50 an hour store clerk. I just go to the range/course and try different club/shaft/ball combos (and to be honest, it doesn't matter what I try, I still dink 'em about 220 yards).