SPORTS SENSOR SWING SPEED RADARSimple device fulfilling my basic needs at an affordable price. Delivery was fast. Great value for money. 5 stars

This product has transformed my game. I’m swinging it faster than ever and had my best ever round a few days after using it. It seems too good to be true but it isn’t.First of all, the customer service was great. I managed to smash the screen the day after I got it and the company shipped a new screen for free (which was easy to fit). The product itself is excellent. It is very sturdy and well made - the smashed screen was due to my stupidity and not the product. It’s incredibly easy to use, you just set it up a few inches from the ball and away you go.I’ve been using the product alongside John Novosel’s Tour Temp book (which I highly recommend). I mainly use the swing sensor in the garden with plastic balls and a net. Here are a few things I’ve noticed:1. Getting instant feedback is invaluable. It’s amazing how you sometimes feel you’ve swung it fast but the numbers tell you you haven’t. What you learn is that timing is more important than force. My fastest swings come when the sequence of my swing falls into place with little effort to hit the ball hard.2. Personally, I like to use the tempo function together with the speed function as I think this gives the best feedback. My backswing tends to be too quick and jerky and my transition is hurried (casting etc). I’ve learnt that slowing this down speeds up my clubhead speed considerably. The fact you can see the results by trying different things makes a huge difference.3. I’ve used the swing speed radar on the course and I swing much faster when I hit a real ball than a plastic ball. In the garden my driver speed is about 92/93 but with a real ball is about 99/100. I don’t know why this is the case but I’ve tried it several times and always get similar results.4. The Tour Tempo book and the radar have helped clear my mind of swing thoughts and freed up my swing. I used to worry about body positions and all that stuff but now I forget all that and just enjoy hitting the ball.The upshot of all this is that I am swinging about 10% faster and my scores have improved rapidly. I’ve only recently joined a club after playing once or twice a year for the past 30-odd years (I’m 55). Last week I hit one of my drives 260 yards, when I usually struggle to get to 220 at best. My drives are consistently in the 240 range and I’m blocking it out to the right far less frequently. My irons are also going about 10 yards further per club. Best of all, I had nine pars in a round the other day - and missed two short putts for par on other holes. My previous best was five. It seems too easy to be true but by forgetting about where to put my arms, wrists, shoulders, feet etc and focusing on tempo has transformed my golf. I highly recommend this product, especially alongside the Tour tempo book.

I have been using this Sports Sensors Swing Speed Radar frequently for two full seasons, about 3 times a week at my course range and in my garage in the off season. I don't remember changing batteries but may have once. I have verified its accuracy by using it simultaneously with Trackman. I don't use the tempo timer. I find that having an immediate swing speed readout is very beneficial for building dynamics.

The display doesn't work properly and I can't ever be sure what the speed showing on it actually is. Unfortunately I was out of town when it was delivered and by the time I got home and checked it, it was too late to return it. I'd still like to return it and get my money back since it's completely useless to me if the screen doesn't work properly

This is an interesting device. It showed up today and I took it to the range for 90 minutes and then I played 18 holes. I'm in my late 50's with a 14 handicap. My biggest detriment to playing better golf is a gradual loss of distance off the tee compounded by the occasional banana slice when I try to swing harder. Everyone I play with tells me my swing is too fast and no matter what I tried I could not slow my swing down.Enter the Sports Sensor swing speed radar unit. With the combination of swing speed and tempo measurements from this radar unit I could slow my swing down to a repeatable tempo. Interestingly, when my swing tempo was reduced, my club head speed increased. Initially my club head speed with my driver was about 88-90MPH and my shots were wild. When I slowed my tempo, the club head speed increased to 98 - 100MPH and the ball was only 10 yards off center left and right rather than 25+ yards to the right with my quicker swing. I could not hit a draw with old swing - not possible.I found that per the directions, you definitely need to have this unit 8-10 inches away from the ball and pointed backwards into the swing path of the club, not forward towards the ball flight. The photo in the directions is a little misleading because it looks like the radar unit is directly opposite the ball. When I had it directly across from the ball or too far away, I got all sorts of screwy data like club head speeds of 142MPH. That's not possible, I'm not Tom Watson or a long drive contestant. I had my swing speed professionally measured last year and it averaged 88-90MPH which translates to a little over 200 yards.With practice, the data this device provided allowed me to change the settings on my Titleist 913 driver to a 9.5 degree loft (it was 10.25 degrees) and keep the draw bias to give me a little more distance and control. As I mentioned, I am a habitual slicer and I was using setting C3 on the 913 and I changed to setting B3 on a 913. With those adjustments on the driver combined with the data feedback from the radar unit applied to my swing tempo, I added 30-40 yards to my driver in 90 minutes on the range. It's amazing how much slower a golf swing feels adding just 3/10's of a second and it was repeatable and I gained muscle memory from the repeatability. I never would have know how much time to add to my backswing if I had not seen the data on the screen. OK, everything works great on the range, I'm one of the top range players on the planet and I know I have a lot of company. For whatever reason, my range success rarely translates to improvement on the course.So I took the tempo change I learned from this unit to the course where I play which is notorious for it's tight fairways with thick rough bordered by heather farther out on either side of most fairways. I shot an 83 (41 and 42 because), my best round of the year. With the tempo change, I was hitting the ball to points on or near the fairway where I had a 6, 7 or even 8 iron into the green rather than a 3 wood or a 3 iron. It's hard to get a 3 wood or a 3 iron to stick on a green unless it's soaking wet. I had better control over my drives because my tempo was controllable and that change removed the wildness from my drives and my lower irons. I have had days where my slice is so bad that the ball might hit me in the back of the head - it's really embarrassing.The radar unit itself is simple to use. Put in 3 AA batteries and it fires right up. The push button under the LCD screen can show you MPH, KPH (kilometers per hour), tempo time alone, swing speed alone or a combination of tempo time and swing speed. I used the latter setting for 90% of my time on the range. It comes with a small nylon stuff sack and an instruction book with a plastic information card that converts swing speed to yards. A club head speed of 98-100 MPH = about 225 yards in the air plus roll or the 240 years I was experiencing. At 90 MPH, my initial club head speed, the data on the card says I should hit the ball right around 200 years - exactly the yardage I had been seeing with my driver in the past. A couple of notes. It may be distracting to some players to have the unit 8-10 inches away but I got used to it quickly and there is a standard camera tripod screw mount on the bottom of this radar unit if you want to mount it to a tripod for other sports.I also found that my 3 iron (Titleist 714 AP1) had a club head speed of about 92-94MPH which explains why my driver was going only ten yards farther than my 3 iron. But with the tempo and driver loft changes, I appear to have rediscovered my long lost driver. Maybe I'm really a 9 or 10 handicap with better drives - we shall see as the season plays on but initially this is a simple to use and impressive unit and I'll never go to the range without this in my bag.