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Golf · Level 7: Upper-Advanced · Sub-level 7.4

Launch Monitors and Data

4 tests · 40 facts · updated 13 October 2026 · markdown

Measuring the swing and the shot: types of launch monitor, club data, ball data, and using data in coaching.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Radar and camerasTake a test

  1. They see the whole flight outdoors.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  2. They read the ball and club in the first moments.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  3. Radar needs to see the ball fly.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  4. Founded in 2003 by two Danish brothers.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  5. Less precise but far more affordable.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  6. Dots or logos let the camera see rotation.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  7. Pointed down the target line.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  8. Alignment matters for left and right numbers.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  9. Tour units cost many thousands.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · applied

  10. Doppler radar follows the ball.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · applied

Test 2Club dataTake a test

  1. Measured left or right of the target line.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  2. The main factor in start direction.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  3. It can differ from the static lie.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  4. With irons it should be after the ball.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  5. Toe, heel, high or low.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  6. It explains the start and curve together.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  7. A physics professor; the book appeared in 1994.

    Source: Theodore Jorgensen, The Physics of Golf (1994) · recall

  8. The face is the main factor.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · applied

  9. Face to path shows why it curves.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  10. Face to path sets the curve.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · applied

Test 3Ball dataTake a test

  1. Measured in degrees.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  2. Back and side spin combined.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  3. Measured from the target line.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  4. Higher shots hang longer.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  5. One perfect strike can mislead.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  6. Outdoors radar sees the real flight.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  7. Too low and approaches run through.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  8. Speed, launch and spin produce the carry.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  9. Roll comes after landing.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · applied

  10. Spin is shown in rpm.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · applied

Test 4Data in coachingTake a test

  1. Change path and the face often changes too.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  2. Repeated to measure progress.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  3. Without a baseline, progress is a guess.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  4. Shown as a trace over the swing.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  5. Sensors or markers track the body.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  6. Each answers a different question.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  7. Small gaps matter most in the scoring zone.

    Source: Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane) · recall

  8. Measure, change one thing, measure again.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  9. From the feet to the ball.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · applied

  10. They trace weight shift through the swing.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · applied

Sources

Club-fitting and launch-monitor references, the Equipment Rules and the 2023 ball-testing announcement, golf physics texts, and course-architecture histories; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Launch-monitor manuals and teaching material (Trackman, Foresight, D-plane)33
  • General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides)6
  • Theodore Jorgensen, The Physics of Golf (1994)1