Brad Faxon Backs Platform Golf’s Bid To Nix Sim Golf’s Pain Point
The post Brad Faxon Backs Platform Golf’s Bid To Nix Sim Golf’s Pain Point appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Brad Faxon and Thomas Hackett chat during a demonstration of Platform Golf’s technology during the Open Championship Platform Golf Few golfers appreciate the power of visualization more than Brad Faxon. The Furman University product’s career peak came later than most, between ages 35 and 40, when he led the PGA Tour in putting average three times (1996, 1999, and 2000). The breakthrough came following the opening of Scotty Cameron’s putter studio, giving the Titleist staffer his first close-up look at his stroke and fresh insight into just exactly how the ball rolled off the face of his favorite club in the bag. “That was the first time I had seen my putting stroke, seen the ball leave the putter face in super slow motion and the first time I’d really practiced indoors to get fitted for a putter,” Faxon explained. “My putting stats went through the roof.” He has no doubt that if he’d had access to Platform Golf back then, he probably would have ended up with more hardware in his trophy collection. The company, which takes simulator visualization a meaningful step forward, has just named Faxon ‘tour ambassador.’ Golf simulators strive to replicate the outdoor experience to a tee. In just milliseconds high speed photometric and stereoscopic cams lock onto a ball’s launch window, crunching critical data points—ball speed, spin rate, launch angle and clubhead position through impact, among other variables. Next, computational physics software takes the wheel, projecting where a shot would have apexed, landed, and rolled to had it been struck from a real tee box instead of just smacking into an impact screen. Finally, vivid course graphics and shot-tracing overlays kick in, completing the illusion of playing outside. All this, so full swing practice can be legit in the offseason, during inclement weather or when…
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Brad Faxon and Thomas Hackett chat during a demonstration of Platform Golf’s technology during the Open Championship Platform Golf Few golfers appreciate the power of visualization more than Brad Faxon. The Furman University product’s career peak came later than most, between ages 35 and 40, when he led the PGA Tour in putting average three times (1996, 1999, and 2000). The breakthrough came following the opening of Scotty Cameron’s putter studio, giving the Titleist staffer his first close-up look at his stroke and fresh insight into just exactly how the ball rolled off the face of his favorite club in the bag. “That was the first time I had seen my putting stroke, seen the ball leave the putter face in super slow motion and the first time I’d really practiced indoors to get fitted for a putter,” Faxon explained. “My putting stats went through the roof.” He has no doubt that if he’d had access to Platform Golf back then, he probably would have ended up with more hardware in his trophy collection. The company, which takes simulator visualization a meaningful step forward, has just named Faxon ‘tour ambassador.’ Golf simulators strive to replicate the outdoor experience to a tee. In just milliseconds high speed photometric and stereoscopic cams lock onto a ball’s launch window, crunching critical data points—ball speed, spin rate, launch angle and clubhead position through impact, among other variables. Next, computational physics software takes the wheel, projecting where a shot would have apexed, landed, and rolled to had it been struck from a real tee box instead of just smacking into an impact screen. Finally, vivid course graphics and shot-tracing overlays kick in, completing the illusion of playing outside. All this, so full swing practice can be legit in the offseason, during inclement weather or when…
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