Came faster than I was expecting. Really good simulator to start improving golf at home .Very good value for the price !

Getting a good work out! , awesome, great fun. putting is very challenging, I need a better projector, looking for a short throw projector now. Already playing in tournament on line and my swings and clubs have improved a lot with simulator.

Quality product, easy to set up and use. As a single handicap golfer this practice tool is great for your long game but you will need to buy a putting mate to get the best out of it. I have used it tee to green with all my clubs and it does give realistic feedback, I have come off the ball on purpose and the sensors have projected the slice to the screen, likewise i have played a hook and again realistic response.Well worth the money especially in this lockdown.

Just arrived from Amazon yesterday and took me about 10 minutes to set up. The Optishot web site is not the best as it took some time to figure out registration and which software to download for the device. I would suggest some work on this to make it simpler and clearer to navigate. Tried the system and it works well. Can see clear parallels to my shots on course and appreciate the feedback on how the shot went. Cannot wait for the net and screen to arrive so I can set up the full system in my basement and complete the project.

My 9 year old daughter has been playing Golf since she was 3 years old and spends most of her time in the Golf course or the range. Last year I splurged and had a Putting, chipping green and also a Bunker installed in our back yard. That allowed us to spend more time at home and also decreased our practice time in half. I said to her the only thing missing is a Virtual Golf course.The other Virtual Golf products costs from 1500 to 50,000. so when I saw all the good reviews from fellow golfers I decided to try it. I also read the negative reviews of Golfers with Clubs that have a dark sole, irregular shape that causes misreads but I knew how to deal with that.PROS1. Ease of setup. All you need to do is take it out of the box, plug the USB to your laptop and run the Optishot Application. That's it.2. Calibration of individual clubs. You can use the default settings but I would not trust it. It will ask you to take some slow swings in a square, open and closed position. You only do this once for each golf set. You can have several golf sets. Then you will have to edit each Club and adjust the length and loft primarily.3. Accuracy. My daughter was swinging and hitting to the Virtual driving range within 20 minutes. We setup a Swing speed Radar beside the Mat to compare the accuracy. After hitting about 500 balls, we can see that most of the time it is within 2 mph +/- or the same as the Swing Speed Radar. That means it is accurate enough for me.4. Playing Golf Courses. She spends most of her time trying increase her distance and accuracy on the Optishot Driving range. Then when she is ready, she switched to the game. In playing the course mode, you can leave the default settings or you can configure it to be more realistic. You can adjust so many factors like the speed of the green, fairway and rough. You can configure wind speed and rough. There are so many more you can change. This is what I like. The courses are very realistic indeed. I sometimes use a projector on to an impact screen, or on the TV. But you still need the laptop obviously.5. Saving money. Since we got this we only go to the course once a week instead of everyday.CONS:1. The only struggle you may have with this is if your club cannot be detected. My daughter had that issue with her Woods. During the calibration phase, people think they need to take full swings. You should not! You just need to chip and move the club slowly so that the sensors can tell if the face is open, square or closed.Since the sole of her woods are black, I got the aluminum insulation tape and cut a strip about 4 inches long and half an inch thick and taped it to the edge of the sole of the club below the club face. I made sure that it lined up perfectly with the face. It worked immediately. I have done this with some Irons I have that are not all silver underneath. Works great. We tried woods that are silver and flat soled, and they all work without tape. So we decided to have an indoor set and an outdoor set which are her regular clubs.SUMMARY:There are more expensive Virtual golf products out there. They track the ball so you can get more information and more accurate results. They can tell if you hit fat or thin so it will adjust the flight of the ball. But I don't need that. I can see the ball flying and can hear if we hit fat or thin. When we have any shot like that we delete that swing.When we use Foam balls, we have to adjust the yardage settings. We reduce the yardage by 10 percent. The club swings faster when it hits a foam ball than with real balls from what we can see. We went to a pro shop with a Trackman and compared her swing speed, and the average swing speed is very close. Also, you have to configure it for hitting a real golf ball, foam ball or no ball so that it can accurately measure your hit.My daughter is a World champion golfer and she loves her Optishot 2. She has more time for herself and has more of a life now outside the Golf course.It is a super convenient, and great training tool. If you are having issues with detecting your clubs, let me know and I will try to help you get the most out of your Optishot.Happy Golfing.>>>>UPDATE after 3 years of using itSo it has been 3 years since I bought my Optishot 2. To be honest, I have had to buy another one because we beat up the original one I purchased so bad, hitting hundreds of balls every day, it finally gave up. But replacing it was simple and we now also use a Skytrak on top of using the Optishot 2.The idea behind this is that we would use the Optishot to track the behavior of the swing and the club. We can monitor the Clubface angle at impact, swing speed, and swing plane. We then put the Skytrak beside the Optishot so that we can get a more realistic analysis of the Launch, Ball flight behavior, Side spin, Backspin and the skills training of the Skytrak.I actually use the Skytrak to calibrate the Optishot. So that the distances are more or less the same. You should not use the Optishot without Calibrating and modifying each and every club. You have to adjust the total distance, swing speed, club length and offset. You could use a Swing speed radar, but the Skytrak is more accurate when it comes to actual distance. Once it is dialed in, the Optishot becomes more accurate when it comes to playing the courses.Playing the built-in courses is where the Optishot really shines. You don't have to pay anything to play them, unlike the Skytrak which requires an expensive subscription, which is more expensive than the Optishot by a mile. It is a no brainer for me.I just put the Red Laser of the Skytrak aimed at the center of the Optishot swing pad and level it. I have my high power Epson projector and an Impact Screen for the Skytrak. I then have my 70 inch TV to view the stats from the Optishot 2. I love this setup and it works great when it comes to dialing in your swing for several thousands less than a Trackman.One piece of advice would be to buy the Thicker Grass for the swing pad. That pad will take a beating if you use the thin one.