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The Optical Compromise: Can an iPhone Truly Replace Dedicated Launch Hardware?

As smartphone tracking apps challenge benchmark launch monitors on the driving range, head-to-head testing reveals the current limits of pocket-sized telemetry.

The modern driving range has quietly transformed into an optical laboratory. Where golfers once relied purely on ball flight, divot patterns, and feel off the clubface, the…

The latest flashpoint in that fight is taking place directly on smartphone screens.

The appeal of pocket-sized ball tracking is obvious. Dedicated launch monitors occupying the sub-$5,000 bracket—a category spanning roughly a dozen competing personal units tested…

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As smartphone tracking apps challenge benchmark launch monitors on the driving range, head-to-head testing reveals the current limits of pocket-sized telemetry.

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