Bushnell Launch Pro Device with Foresight

[aenemated]

2 minutes ago, thigos said:

@aenemated it will work with just an ipad for data and range.  I believe the PC requirement is for sim capabilites

 

Thanks for the info. Can’t seem to find any real info beyond juat that … I gotta see the software. Don’t care about simulator stuff - I already pay CC dues 😂

 

The curse of being a programmer is being a stickler for the software and if it’s janky … no go.

[The Coug]

[thigos]

On 10/1/2021 at 12:52 PM, DinoSpumoni228 said:

@WallysWorld were you told you would get 10 or 20 free courses when you purchased your unit?

 

I am trying to figure out if I am getting screwed since @thigos is saying he was told he was going to get 20 when he purchased his

 These are the 20 courses:

 

• Pebble Beach Golf Links™
• The Links at Spanish Bay™
• Spyglass Hill® Golf Course
• Old Course at St Andrews Links™
• The Castle Course at St Andrews Links™
• Jubilee Course at St Andrews Links™
• New Course at St Andrews Links™
• Pitch N Putt
• Carnoustie Golf Links
• Real Club Valderrama
• Blue Bayou Golf and Fishing Club
• Broken Tree Golf Course
• Linfield National Golf Club
• Teton Pines Golf Course
• Willow Crest Golf Club
• The Farms Golf Club
• Beaver Hills Country Club
• Tall Pines
• Butterfield Country Club (Red/Blue)
• Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club

[CStephenson17]

20 minutes ago, thigos said:

 These are the 20 courses:

 

• Pebble Beach Golf Links™
• The Links at Spanish Bay™
• Spyglass Hill® Golf Course
• Old Course at St Andrews Links™
• The Castle Course at St Andrews Links™
• Jubilee Course at St Andrews Links™
• New Course at St Andrews Links™
• Pitch N Putt
• Carnoustie Golf Links
• Real Club Valderrama
• Blue Bayou Golf and Fishing Club
• Broken Tree Golf Course
• Linfield National Golf Club
• Teton Pines Golf Course
• Willow Crest Golf Club
• The Farms Golf Club
• Beaver Hills Country Club
• Tall Pines
• Butterfield Country Club (Red/Blue)
• Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club

Does anyone know what is included with the silver and gold packages?

[kwettig]

41 minutes ago, thigos said:

 These are the 20 courses:

 

• Pebble Beach Golf Links™
• The Links at Spanish Bay™
• Spyglass Hill® Golf Course
• Old Course at St Andrews Links™
• The Castle Course at St Andrews Links™
• Jubilee Course at St Andrews Links™
• New Course at St Andrews Links™
• Pitch N Putt
• Carnoustie Golf Links
• Real Club Valderrama
• Blue Bayou Golf and Fishing Club
• Broken Tree Golf Course
• Linfield National Golf Club
• Teton Pines Golf Course
• Willow Crest Golf Club
• The Farms Golf Club
• Beaver Hills Country Club
• Tall Pines
• Butterfield Country Club (Red/Blue)
• Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club

I was told 10…the last 10 in this list.  Definitely didn’t get pebble courses.  Sounds like thigos had a nice salesman.  Lucky.

 

i last 10 listed are the gold courses.

Edited October 4, 2021 by kwettig

[tvollm1]

I did not even get the email reminder. Did anyone else not get the email as well?

[ABOsborn20]

Does anyone know of any protective cases for the LP while it's in use?  Was surprised not to see any on the site that you could purchase.  

[Luke.Sutton]

13 minutes ago, ABOsborn20 said:

Does anyone know of any protective cases for the LP while it's in use?  Was surprised not to see any on the site that you could purchase.  

According to Foresight it is designed to take a direct hit from a golf ball like the Quad. I’m rocking it nude…. I’d like a little case for transport tho 

Edited October 4, 2021 by Luke.Sutton

[ABOsborn20]

14 minutes ago, Luke.Sutton said:

According to Foresight it is designed to take a direct hit from a golf ball like the Quad. I’m rocking it nude…. I’d like a little case for transport tho 

Thank you and that's awesome to hear.  A really nice design improvement.  

[WallysWorld]

2 hours ago, RH2020 said:

That is exactly what they want us to think haha, hype-generating preorder, with who-knows how many units made available initially 

so true, the rep told me that they have units sitting locally where I live and yet gave me a quote of 2-4 weeks for PICKUP!!!! 

 

[crussogolf]

1 hour ago, thigos said:

 These are the 20 courses:

 

• Pebble Beach Golf Links™
• The Links at Spanish Bay™
• Spyglass Hill® Golf Course
• Old Course at St Andrews Links™
• The Castle Course at St Andrews Links™
• Jubilee Course at St Andrews Links™
• New Course at St Andrews Links™
• Pitch N Putt
• Carnoustie Golf Links
• Real Club Valderrama
• Blue Bayou Golf and Fishing Club
• Broken Tree Golf Course
• Linfield National Golf Club
• Teton Pines Golf Course
• Willow Crest Golf Club
• The Farms Golf Club
• Beaver Hills Country Club
• Tall Pines
• Butterfield Country Club (Red/Blue)
• Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club

 

Does the number of courses depend on if you buy a package compared to just the LM?  It looks like the 'sim in a box' packages come with the 20 courses above, whereas no package comes with 10 courses.

[thigos]

1 hour ago, crussogolf said:

 

Does the number of courses depend on if you buy a package compared to just the LM?  It looks like the 'sim in a box' packages come with the 20 courses above, whereas no package comes with 10 courses.

 

I'm not completely confident that I will get the 20.  Just what the rep told me during the pre-order phase.

[thigos]

1 hour ago, Luke.Sutton said:

According to Foresight it is designed to take a direct hit from a golf ball like the Quad. I’m rocking it nude…. I’d like a little case for transport tho 

 

I want a carrying case too.  The user manual does not list a case as included, but it does reference one:

 

[WallysWorld]

I wonder if they will start selling them in the backpack case like Quad? 

[noodle24]

I'm still holding onto hope that Bushnell Launch Pro will work with TGC 2019 and GS Pro. I chatted with a Bushnell rep and they said they don't know if it would yet, but would find out by the end of this week.

 

This is a better answer than the "definitely not" that some people have been getting from Foresight reps.

[SpudLight]

5 hours ago, CStephenson17 said:

Got mine! Paid an extra $20 for overnight as well! Let’s see how fast it gets here!!

ME too! At this point whats an extra $20! No excuses for still being as bad as i am next spring. Golf all winter!!!!!!!!

[kwayneiu]

I was told they'll drop more in a couple weeks, no point in even considering scalped units yet (or ever) no matter how impatient we are 🙂

[Yorke]

FYI for those of us living in that place called "Rest of world", after weeks of researching and finally deciding on the BLP, I then spot this reply on twitter from Bushnell Golf.

"The Launch Pro will only be sold in the US. Thanks."

Would have been good to include that in sign up emails, website etc.

I've asked if that only applies during initial launch or forever, but of course no reply. 

 

At least with Bushnell Golf making the decision for me I no longer have to worry about all of the other unanswered questions and confusing/conflicting info about the LP/GC3 hardware and software. e.g. If they're both the same hardware then why do the manuals show different instructions for club head marker placement? Surely they should be the same manual just with a find & replace "GC3" for "Launch Pro" and change text colour from Blue to Orange?

Also I sure hope their engineers and software developers are better at finding bugs than their marketing team, like the default text fillers left in their website and manual  

Edited October 4, 2021 by Yorke

[Topher925]

14 minutes ago, Yorke said:

FYI for those of us living in that place called "Rest of world", after weeks of researching and finally deciding on the BLP, I then spot this reply on twitter from Bushnell Golf.

"The Launch Pro will only be sold in the US. Thanks."

Would have been good to include that in sign up emails, website etc.

I've asked if that only applies during initial launch or forever, but of course no reply. 

 

At least with Bushnell Golf making the decision for me I no longer have to worry about all of the other unanswered questions and confusing/conflicting info about the LP/GC3 hardware and software. e.g. If they're both the same hardware then why do the manuals show different instructions for club head marker placement? Surely they should be the same manual just with a find & replace "GC3" for "Launch Pro" and change text colour from Blue to Orange?

Also I sure hope their engineers and software developers are better at finding bugs than their marketing team, like the default text fillers left in their website and manual  

 

 

 

 

I found this here on the Foresight website. Looks like the GC3 will be subscription based OR unlocked for the "rest of world" folks

 

Edited October 4, 2021 by Topher925

[Yorke]

11 minutes ago, Topher925 said:

 

I found this here on the Foresight website. Looks like the GC3 will be subscription based OR unlocked for the "rest of world" folks

 

Good find @Topher925, So BLP definitely to remain a US only branded product. Looks like I better start saving up the extra for when the next batch of GC3's are available for order. Hopefully by then we would have heard an update from Full Swing about their "Kit" and whether 3rd party software providers have managed to integrate with the unlocked GC3.

 

Edited October 4, 2021 by Yorke

[Yorke]

For those wondering about which courses are included, this was on the Foresight website:

 

Both Silver and Gold packages include course licenses with their subscription.

Silver: Willow Crest, Teton Pines, Blue Bayou, Broken Tree and Linfield National.

Gold: Willow Crest, Teton Pines, Blue Bayou, Broken Tree, Linfield National, Beaver Hills, Kinsale, The Farms, Tall Pines and Butterfield.

Edited October 4, 2021 by Yorke

[bbish937]

41 minutes ago, Topher925 said:

 

I found this here on the Foresight website. Looks like the GC3 will be subscription based OR unlocked for the "rest of world" folks

 

Does this mean we could just buy the GC3 unlocked for $3,995 without FSX?!!! That is something I’d do! Hopefully, even in US you can do that…

[Indygolf21]

48 minutes ago, Topher925 said:

 

I found this here on the Foresight website. Looks like the GC3 will be subscription based OR unlocked for the "rest of world" folks

 

Interesting. Anyone know if FSX Gold will be any different than FSX 2020?

[Topher925]

10 minutes ago, Indygolf21 said:

Interesting. Anyone know if FSX Gold will be any different than FSX 2020?

 

My guess would be FSX Gold includes future versions of FSX, while the unlocked GC3 will remain at FSX 2020. But clearly I'm just speculating

[*sigh*]

20 minutes ago, bbish937 said:

Does this mean we could just buy the GC3 unlocked for $3,995 without FSX?!!! That is something I’d do! Hopefully, even in US you can do that…

No, it means you pay $3,000 for the launch pro then can pay $3,995 for a permanent unlock. Basically replicating the GC3 at some point. 
 

There was mention that foresight has plans to release a GC3 without a FSX subscription at some point in the future, but I don’t know if anyone has confirmed pricing. 

[Kyleraugh]

Found this pretty interesting. While talking to a sales rep from Bushnell, he let it slip that only 10 units were released today. Can that be right? 

[Magnets]

10 minutes ago, Kyleraugh said:

Found this pretty interesting. While talking to a sales rep from Bushnell, he let it slip that only 10 units were released today. Can that be right? 

Maybe his personal sales as one of the multiple reps working for bushnell 

[Dan13]

3 hours ago, *sigh* said:

No, it means you pay $3,000 for the launch pro then can pay $3,995 for a permanent unlock. Basically replicating the GC3 at some point. 
 

There was mention that foresight has plans to release a GC3 without a FSX subscription at some point in the future, but I don’t know if anyone has confirmed pricing. 

That is not how the chart reads but I suspect you are correct. $4k for an unlocked GC3 with the soon to be outdated and maligned FSX 2020 and then pay for software upgrades if interested. That I would do. 

[RH2020]

13 minutes ago, Kyleraugh said:

Found this pretty interesting. While talking to a sales rep from Bushnell, he let it slip that only 10 units were released today. Can that be right? 

Gc3 is still available in their “bundles” if you are willing to pay $3000 for a net, a turf, and 10 extra courses 😉 it is really a toss up you know, bundle vs eBay haha

[CStephenson17]

18 minutes ago, Kyleraugh said:

Found this pretty interesting. While talking to a sales rep from Bushnell, he let it slip that only 10 units were released today. Can that be right? 

I don’t think so. I saw a poll on the facebook group where 21 said they purchased. Could be inaccurate but I’m guessing it was more in the 100 range