FS Mevo Accuracy & Ball Selection

[McSmitherson]

On 9/16/2020 at 4:44 PM, Mr_Wolfe said:

Appreciate the insight. Yes, the MEVO has those settings as well. For hitting into a net (indoor or outdoor), they say to use the indoor settings since it's capturing less than 40 feet of ball flight.

 

Mr. Wolfe

I have a mevo indoors and I've seen the same.  I find the distances are off by a larger margin with my long irons.  I carried a 4 iron ~190-195 the other day (ran out over the green to 210 or so).  But I find the mevo is reading ~180 for my carry for pure hits indoors.  I actually found moving my mat closer to the net gave me more accurate data, which seems counter intuitive for doppler.  But then on long irons it would not read so I had to move it back.

 

I'm also finding inconsistency in the launch angle.  The the point I got out a laser level and protractor to mark launch angles on my net.  

 

I'll hit a shot at that reads 13*, and then the next shot well below that and it will read 16*.  I think the movement of the nesting or the ball running up it (I have archery netting) might be affecting it.  I also have found on occasion a practice swing will read 13* launch so I wonder if it's mixing up the ball and club release.

 

I just picked it up a few weeks ago and haven't had a chance to take it to the range.  With cd weather rolling in that may have to wait until spring.

 

[cwolfson]

I just got a mevo today to use indoors.  The data does not seems to be even close to accurate.  
 

I started with a 54* which I fly on the golf course 114ish.  Mevo said 97-99 on balls that I flushed.

 

8 iron I fly on the golf course about 162ish. Mevo said about 146.  
 

7 iron I fly on course about 174.  Mevo said 151.

 

I guess I’ll take it to the course and compare it to a laser, but very disappointing to say the least.

 

Planning on selling the mevo to buy some HGH, superspeed sticks, and some orgain protein shakes.

Edited December 8, 2020 by cwolfson

[Metro07]

On 8/28/2020 at 12:37 PM, Hondabuff said:

Find a spot where you can hit your gamer ball on the course to 100 yards. Drop the Mevo down and hit 5 or so balls to 100 yards and adjust the elevation setting until its very close to exact numbers. I have actually set my bag down and walk back 100 yards and lasered my bag. Pittsburgh is 1200' in elevation but I had to put it on 3800' and its dead on now with my ProV1x LD balls. Normal range balls are normally 10 yards shorter. I have one 168 yard Par3 at my course that I hit 2 sleeves of balls into it with the Mevo and my 7 iron. I feel its very accurate comparing it with the laser. Hope this helps.

Brilliant!!

[Murdock]

On 12/7/2020 at 8:34 PM, cwolfson said:

I just got a mevo today to use indoors.  The data does not seems to be even close to accurate.  
 

I started with a 54* which I fly on the golf course 114ish.  Mevo said 97-99 on balls that I flushed.

 

8 iron I fly on the golf course about 162ish. Mevo said about 146.  
 

7 iron I fly on course about 174.  Mevo said 151.

 

I guess I’ll take it to the course and compare it to a laser, but very disappointing to say the least.

 

Planning on selling the mevo to buy some HGH, superspeed sticks, and some orgain protein shakes.

Try tinkering with the elevation setting.  Don't be afraid to bump it up thousands of feet if you need to!

[cwolfson]

6 hours ago, Murdock said:

Try tinkering with the elevation setting.  Don't be afraid to bump it up thousands of feet if you need to!

Will try that.  Thanks!!!

[TourSpoon]

I have about 10 sessions on the Mevo and have made a couple of adjustments to it based on the conditions of the balls I am using. I compared it to an indoor Trackman, the Flightscope online optimizer, the laser and pacing off yardages. 

 

At my friend's shop with the indoor setting and dot on a new TP5, the Mevo wedge distance was 1-2 yards long, the 6 iron was dead on, and the driver was 2  about yards short compared to Trackman. The spin was pretty good but with the Mevo, you have to realize that it is best at tracking well struck shots.

 

Taking the numbers to the range with decent to good condition range balls on grass, I have set the altitude to 1000 and the numbers are really good. I did it based on my trusty wedge distance (1000 feet got it really close) and then I compared the numbers at 0 versus 1000 on the Flightscope optimizer to confirm that it will give you about a 2-3% variance. The distances are now very consistent with what I saw with Trackman. 

 

Finally, I used premium balls for 50 yard pitch shots with no elevation adjustment off grass and the unit was dead on with me pacing off pitch marks from the flagstick. This is what I really bought it for was to dial in the wedge distances. 

 

Anyway, it is not perfect, but its really close and consistent on reasonably struck shots. The quality of balls needs to be considered or you can play with altitude to adjust. My favorite part is the trajectory view because I am really trying to lower ball flight on the wedges and to optimize the launch and spin on the driver. 

 

[kmar1085]

When using indoors try putting 3 metallic dots on the ball.  I just started using the Mevo at home and this really helped tighten up the numbers on my irons.  They seem very accurate now.

[Jota_Jota]

On 1/10/2021 at 10:42 PM, kmar1085 said:

When using indoors try putting 3 metallic dots on the ball.  I just started using the Mevo at home and this really helped tighten up the numbers on my irons.  They seem very accurate now.

Thanks for the tip. Did you see the numbers across all parameters become more accurate? Or just spin? And, where are you placing the dots? In a cluster, or just anywhere that isn't the side you're going to make contact with?

[dekez]

Is there a concensus on the Mevo for short game use?  Quite a few write-ups (including one from a Spy) suggest it does not do well for shots less than 70 yards.

[Murdock]

I haven't done as much testing with the 'pitching' settings as much as full shot, but I did test a few.  

 

I tested some in my back yard and the carry numbers weren't correct, the mevo was always much higher.  But, if you included the roll-out with the chip, it was much closer to the mevo numbers.  I asked FS and they confirmed the pitching 'carry' is the in-air carry and doesn't include roll-out....so based on that it was pretty off.  I'd chip a ball around 17-18 yards and the mevo would read ~25-30.  

 

Others may have found better results.  I think my unit mignt be faulty, but haven't taken it in to the FS office in Orlando (which they graciously suggested I could do - put it head to head with one of their top of the line teaching units).  

 

I did some extensive testing on the unit to try and determine what was going on, but haven't taken the time to post those results to this forum.  Primary because I wanted to run the tests again but haven't found the time to do it

[Jota_Jota]

10 minutes ago, dekez said:

Is there a concensus on the Mevo for short game use?  Quite a few write-ups (including one from a Spy) suggest it does not do well for shots less than 70 yards.

I've been grinding my 50-90 distances using the Mevo. Hitting into a net with the unit 7 feet back. On full swings with any any club, I'll fail to get a reading on maybe 1/100 shots, but in with these partial swings that number is probably closer to 15/100, with some of those 15 misses being partial reads where I get distance but not spin or clubhead speed. I tried using the pitching setting, which is meant for shots up to 40 yards but that didn't help. Overall I'd say it's a marginal failure rate 

[Jota_Jota]

1 hour ago, Murdock said:

I haven't done as much testing with the 'pitching' settings as much as full shot, but I did test a few.  

 

I tested some in my back yard and the carry numbers weren't correct, the mevo was always much higher.  But, if you included the roll-out with the chip, it was much closer to the mevo numbers.  I asked FS and they confirmed the pitching 'carry' is the in-air carry and doesn't include roll-out....so based on that it was pretty off.  I'd chip a ball around 17-18 yards and the mevo would read ~25-30.  

 

Others may have found better results.  I think my unit mignt be faulty, but haven't taken it in to the FS office in Orlando (which they graciously suggested I could do - put it head to head with one of their top of the line teaching units).  

 

I did some extensive testing on the unit to try and determine what was going on, but haven't taken the time to post those results to this forum.  Primary because I wanted to run the tests again but haven't found the time to do it

This is interesting, thanks for posting. Especially because I'd assume the numbers would be worse if pitching into a net. I tend to practice these shots at the practice green. I'd like to know if any Rapsodo/G80/Voice Caddie users have the same issues on these kinds of shots. My guess is that there is an ideal unit for players looking to sharpen their pitching while sacrificing accuracy on some other metric. 

 

As for my Mevo, I've also found club head speed to be overstated. Normalized on Trackman I'm 105 with the driver, and Mevo consistently reads me at 111, which is the difference between stiff and extra stiff. 

[LCP]

I have found my clubhead speed with my Ping drivers and woods to be understated. Conversely, I've found long iron speed to be overstated. I think it has to do with the different materials compositions and shapes of the heads.  I can swing with the woods and struggle to display more than 102 clubhead speed, but then show ball speed in the 150's.  Maybe the driver will show 105, with ballspeed around 160.  But then switch to my 2 iron and clubhead speed is up in the 104-108 range, but ball speed always in the 140's.  FWIW, I think my real driver swing speed is 110-113, fairways 105-108, and 2 iron 100-104.

[Jota_Jota]

20 hours ago, LCP said:

I have found my clubhead speed with my Ping drivers and woods to be understated. Conversely, I've found long iron speed to be overstated. I think it has to do with the different materials compositions and shapes of the heads.  I can swing with the woods and struggle to display more than 102 clubhead speed, but then show ball speed in the 150's.  Maybe the driver will show 105, with ballspeed around 160.  But then switch to my 2 iron and clubhead speed is up in the 104-108 range, but ball speed always in the 140's.  FWIW, I think my real driver swing speed is 110-113, fairways 105-108, and 2 iron 100-104.

I'm also swinging a Ping driver. Maybe it's a materials thing, or the distance of the unit. As I understand it, there isn't even a standard for how club head speed is measured, and Trackman and Quad each have their own way of doing so. But the upshot is maybe I can get that Ventus Black off BST! 

[Lumpy930]

I have found Mevo to be quite accurate both at the range and into a net.  Better than I anticipated.  Ball speed seems very consistent and based on ball speed you can tell when you get a bad reading.  Swing speed is a bit all over the place.  
 

I find Mevo very accurate for well struck shots and provides great info for the price of the unit.  Seems accurate all the way down to 40yd pitches.  Spin also seems surprising good with the metal dots for a unit in this price range.