Rapsodo has partnered with Titleist to introduce an RPT model of the Professional V1 golf ball.
The Professional V1 joins Callaway’s Chrome Gentle X within the Rapsodo RPT ball catalog. An RPT model of the Professional V1x can be obtainable in 2025.
What’s RPT?
For these unfamiliar with the Rapsodo ecosystem, RPT is brief for Rapsodo Precision Know-how. RPT-enabled golf balls characteristic a set of markings (spots, actually) on the duvet that permit the MLM2PRO launch monitor to precisely seize spin and spin axis measurements.
Why RPT issues
The MLM2PRO is what you may think about a hybrid launch monitor design. Like FlightScope MEVO, Full Swing KIT and the Garmin R10, the MLM2PRO makes use of Doppler radar to measure issues like ball velocity, launch angle and launch course.
Most radar-based gadget are moderately good with these fundamental metrics.
The place the MLM2PRO differs is that as an alternative of trying to seize spin information with radar, it leverages an on-board digicam system and RPT golf balls to seize spin price and spin axis.
We’ve mentioned the challenges and limitations of counting on radar-based gadgets to seize spin in limited-flight environments. Glossing over the technical bits, the final takeaway is that it doesn’t work significantly nicely.
Radar’s inherent struggles to precisely seize spin charges (emphasis on precisely) is why, previous to MLM2PRO, Rapsodo didn’t embrace spin charges in its checklist of metrics.
Sadly for data-hungry golfers, lots of Rapsodo’s opponents have been completely happy to incorporate spin charges of their datasets, even once they knew they weren’t fully dependable.
It’s the rationale Titleist and Trackman partnered to create RCT (radar seize know-how) golf balls. RCT-enabled golf balls considerably enhance Doppler radar’s means to precisely measure spin charges however capturing spin axis tilt and finally the curvature of the golf ball stays problematic.
That is the place Rapsodo differentiates itself from different radar-based launch displays.
When RPT balls are used, MLM2PRO leverages an built-in digicam system to seize spin price and spin axis.
It’s a greater method.
Can I make my very own RPT balls?
Trying on the apparently easy sample discovered on RPT golf balls, it’s possible you’ll be questioning in the event you can take a DIY method to RPT.
Sure, you may*.
There are third-party jigs on the market. Golfers are undoubtedly doing it. The caveat is that they’re not almost as exact and a few have gone as far as to change the sample to work round Rapsodo’s patents.
The DIY method will seemingly provide you with spin information however whether or not that information is correct (it in all probability isn’t) is a distinct dialog.
To validate real RPT balls, Rapsodo makes use of a top quality management platform referred to as AQUTEST360. AQUTEST360 makes use of six cameras to make sure that every of the 27 marks discovered on an RPT golf ball are exactly the place they must be for correct spin seize.
To place a couple of numbers on it, Titleist and Rapsodo hit between 10 thousand and 12 thousand photographs to make sure the RPT sample was working correctly on the Professional V1. Placement of every of these 27 dots is exact to inside .5mm.
You received’t discover tolerances that tight on Etsy.
How correct is MLM2PRO spin information with RPT golf balls?
Based on Rapsodo, in testing facet by facet with the Foresight GC Quad (the gold normal in camera-based launch displays), it discovered only a 50 rpm distinction in spin measurements and .75 levels distinction in spin axis.
Excellent? No, however considerably higher than most any radar-based client launch monitor available on the market and when you think about that the MLM2PRO sells for lower than $700, for budget-conscious golfers putting a premium on accuracy (versus gamification), the mix of MLM2PRO and RPT balls looks as if a no brainer.
The purpose is that you could possibly spend considerably more cash for considerably much less accuracy. Lots have already got.
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If there’s a caveat in all of this, it’s that at US$69.99 a dozen, Titleist Professional V1 with RPT golf balls don’t come low cost however I’m not going to sugarcoat this for you. If correct spin information is vital, that’s to say that if understanding the true flight of a golf ball which suggests dependable offline and dispersion information is vital to you, $69.99 per dozen is simply the price of doing enterprise.
When you think about the widely reasonably priced value of the MLM2PRO to start with, it’s not an insufferable further expense. In addition to, you’re going to be hitting them right into a display screen or web, which suggests a dozen ought to final considerably longer than they do on the golf course.
Titleist Professional V1 with RPT Golf Balls are bought solely by Rapsodo.
For extra data or to order yours, go to Rapsodo.com.
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