If you’re an avid golfer, you’ve probably fantasized about having a home simulator setup. If you’re on a budget, you probably thought it was out of your reach, and for many golfers, it certainly still is. But launch monitors and simulators are becoming more and more affordable, and the technology to make the experiences more accurate and realistic continues to evolve.
To check into this, we took a look at Uneekor’s Eye Mini Lite. Not to be confused with the Eye Mini, which is a portable launch monitor that can be used on a driving range and the course as well as indoors, the Eye Mini Lite from the Korean-based company is not really that portable. In fact, it has to be plugged in. But if you’re wanting to just set up something at your home, it’s a serious option, offering loads of data points, impressive graphics and speed, options to play different courses, challenges, an evaluation of your game, and other features, many of which are found on units costing way more than the Eye Mini Lite.
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The compact Eye Mini Lite, which costs less than $3,000, features dual cameras and infrared sensors to ball and club measurements. You can get more detailed club measurements, like clubhead speed, by using a small sticker on the face of the club. The unit is fairly easy to set up right out of the box, but you do need to connect it with a PC computer using an ethernet cable. It will not work with an Apple product and certainly not a Chromebook. A gaming PC is probably the way to go to get the fastest processing.
You’ll need adequate space to set this up. If you’re thinking about your garage or anywhere indoors, of course, you’ll need higher than normal ceilings to accommodate longer clubs in your bag or taller players. I don’t have that at home, so I opted for a temporary backyard setup, employing a large golf net, a mat, and a TV monitor for a larger display than the computer screen and a canopy to cover everything in case it started raining.
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Again, ideally, you would want to set something up indoors. Even better, you can hook up an overhead projector into a screen in front of you instead of a monitor. And for around $2,500 you could add a couple more cameras to video your swing from behind and face-on, as well as a force plate to measure weight shift in your swing. The software to run these optional add-ons is included.
Start at the Driving Range
In the free Player Package, the Eye Mini Lite is a driving…
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