The swing caddie SC4 home launch monitor reviewed and tested. Is it worth the money, and is it the cheapest home sim that actually has some good functionality?
If you want to build a home golf simulator on a budget, the SC4 might be the best launch monitor on the market.
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Thanks, Mark
I presume you meant barometric not biometric. I don't want it sizing me up 😅
Great review Mark, enjoyed warching this as I am interested in a not too expensive launch monitor 👏
Do you want a home sim?
If it isn’t accurate with shots then it isn’t worth half a grand for me. That’s the most important aspect of a simulator to me…to simulate.
Hi Mark – could you try a few shots with the Titleist RCT ball? It's designed for better spin and ball tracking for Doppler systems. Would be interesting to see if it makes the cheap unit a lot more accurate!
This vs r10 would the be the right question
Mark. Could you run this SC 4 vs the Ernest Sports B1 monitor…and see what you think then? They are about the same price range and give the same data…Thanks…
Great video. Really love your product/club/gear reviews. All the information you need to make an informed decision, plus you give a detailed, honest opinion about whatever it is you're reviewing. Keep it up!
Wow, would defo buy this to help my son who is still on his first year of playing. Even going to the driving range and having a net in the garden has helped but this would speed up ability. Nice and defo think this is good.
HI Mark, I,ve got the swing caddie SC3i, its good. helped a lot to progress, .but now I,m looking at the Rapsodo MLM2 Pro. £649 supposedly very very accurate… .do you think the SC4 is as good as that .. its 100 £ less… ??
Mark, have you ever actual tested the GC Quad distances out on a range to see if its 100% accurate. If not then get the ole trundle wheel out and see if 50yrds is actually 50yrds 😉👍 Great review btw 🫡
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Biometric-> BarometricThank you for the honest assessment, Mark! Still a bit pricey for a weekend duffer who wants to improve.😅
Mark, been following you since the early days. Off topic, but just curious what your future with course vlogs and matches is. In my opinion, your course vlogs are still the flagship standard to even anything anyone else is putting out today.
Looks interesting, I was considering getting this unit because of the range and I believe you get one course included for free to play. However the short yardage discrepancies and left to right dispersion not being accurate might be a deal breaker. Getting false data won’t help your game in real life. Thinking you’re hitting it straight when in actuality it’s going left or right can be an issue or trying to dial in those sub 100 yard shots, which are critical, can cost you strokes.
Now there are third party apps that greatly improve the accuracy of the device which are subscription based so that helps but now you are on the hook to pay.
That is something I’ve never understood with some of these entry level launch monitors like this one or the Garmin r10 or rapsodo. Clearly the device you have is capable of producing accurate shots so why do you need a third party app you have to pay for on top of the unit to get that accuracy. Why can’t Garmin or voice caddie just make the device do what it’s capable of doing without needing outside help?! Just baffling. Unless they are getting some kind of cut from the monthly subscriptions from awesome golf or e6. That’s really the only thing I can think of 🤷🏻♂️
Since it's in the same price range as the Garmin approach we would love to know about the direct comparison between the two
Great and completely honest/independent review. "An entry level Launch Monitor" is a perfect summary.
I think you need to compare this against other LM of similar cost – which one is the most accurate, the most fun, the easiest to use (both inside and out). You might need to get hold of a Trackman to allow comparison against launch monitors which would placed where you put the GC Quad.
Personally I would want a launch monitor which has more data points, especially club data (path, face to path, face angle as minimum although angle of attack would be nice as well). But I realise those are significantly more expensive. Maybe Mark should do a similar review of the new Skytrack + which seems to have all I would want at a much more reasonable price than GC3 (especially when subscriptions are taken into account)
Great stuff MC! I have the SC3 and found it to be very good for what it was. Also have used the E6 software with my golf tiddle, it is absolutely fantastic. Just fun and has entertained golf and non golf friends over and over again…. Cheers!
Great info. Thanks
Interested
Seems like a similar level of tech to the Garmin R10. Interested if it can pick up or calculate shot shape or side spin. the snippets of E6 showed a side sin of 0…. MC you are a really good golfer but if you were able to achieve zero side spin every time then I think you'd be n tour 🙂
Thank you for this review! I’d like to see comparisons please including the cost “brackets” various monitors fall into and how you would list them overall in value/price… perhaps of monitors less than $5k US.
If you gave me one I'd probably use it a few times before I got bored charging it up and messing around with an iPad etc. I'm a bit of a hobbyist. fishing, golf, photography and they all have these gadgets that promise to make you better etc but I've never really found one that does what it says. The best thing to do is spend the £600 on green feesmembership. Just my opinion.
I've been 'wishing' for one of these for years, I'm only a mid-handicapper but love stats and have been using arccos since my purchase of the F9 driver. I'm sure there isn't a screen saver for this but suspect you coould use a generic one from a larger tablet… however would that impact the sensors?
I hoping to get an entry level simulator later in the year. E6 is expensive yearly subscription but would you comoare the SC4 to the Garmin R10?
Would love to see your thoughts on SkyTrak +
Great review video! 🔥
Really enjoyed this video mark. I didn't know this was out on the market, so thanks for that. It would be good to compare similar products around the same price range, that the average joe would look into buying.
Could it be bag or trolley mounted for a round, aligned for each shot and record data?, or does it need to positioned on the ground for each shot?
neat looking gadget. not sure about that shirt tho mark 🤢
Be great…too expensive for me
As I say – if you meassure something you don´t know if right or wrong – then why use time and money on this.
I live 10mins from a trackman range so I don’t need one but that’s a solid bit of kit