My NEW FAVORITE Golf Launch Monitor!

So, this right here is the best launch monitor in a game of golf that you've never heard of. How many YouTube videos open? It's getting out of control. I've said it and so many of us say it, but I think there's some truth to it because there's just so many launch monitor companies popping up left, right, and center offering you incredible data for a great price point. But this is the Golf Joy Spy 3. $3,200 for a three camera optical face on launch monitor. It seems too good to be true that at this price point, you can get something that is credible, accurate, fun. So, I spent some time with it. I dove deep into my testing. I was very thorough. I've compared it against launch monitors. I've spent so much time in the app, and we're going to get into that in today's video. We're going to see if this Golf Joy Spy 3 is something you need to pay attention to if you're looking to get a launch monitor in that sub $4,000 range. So, let's get into it. So, let's dive into the specs, the nuts and bolts of this thing first and foremost, so you know exactly what you're getting for $3,200 from Golf Joy. Three cameras, face on, optical launch monitor. You have a great back lit LCD screen that you can turn the light on or light off inside, outside. It's awesome. Pretty lightweight and it seems very durable and like solid. Got a little hook here to carry it or handle to carry it. This is a nice little touch, too. Pops out for when you're outside. Stick two T's in it. very very easy there. Great battery life. The packaging comes with a backpack which is just like a nice little touch. The GDS Pro which I tested from them maybe 3 4 months ago. Same thing. So nice consistency from the brand there. What I think really separates this from a lot of the other face on launch monitors is there's a built-in gyroscope. So it's always going to be level. That's really great. That's going to give us really consistent bunch angle, angle of attack readings because it's always going to be level. So, when we're outside, it's level. So, if I'm in here in the garage with a little pitch, it's level. I think that is something that I don't see in a lot of the Face on Launch monitors and the downline ones. You always have to level. For $3,200, what you're getting in this, there's nothing else that compares at that price point. It's compatible with E6 GS Pro. You can use the Golf Joy Light, which is the free app, or the Golf Joy Pro, which is free for 30 days. Then there's a subscription and opens up more golf courses, more games if you want to play sim if you want to do more. That's just part for the course with launch monitors and softwares. But for 3200 bucks, it's it's ticking all the boxes straight out of the box. So straight from the box, I didn't mess with any apps or anything yet. I wanted to see just what this experience was like, what the screen was like. It was very easy. You turn it on and you go the alignment and just line it straight. like it's pretty straightforward tapping through here. Very very good. Doesn't it's not overly sensitive, but it's not not sensitive enough. Like I said, you can put the light on, you got the light off, you can change all the settings you need. So, even if you don't want to use SIM software or any apps, you can get really good practice and data from the unit the way it comes. Then, I took it outside and that's where I think this really came to light. just as easy as inside to turn it on and do what I needed to do. The data, the numbers seemed quite accurate. Again, I'm not using an app. I'm not looking at anything. Everything from here seemed quite accurate. And I haven't even used the club stickers yet. And then around the greens, hitting the chips and the pitches with this was really, really cool. And it was very, very accurate. The distance I hit a shot, I paced it off and it was flying. What I paced was what was on here. And the spin seemed quite accurate, too. And again, with no club stickers, I'm not paying attention to the angle of attack or or that, but the data based on a few hours inside and outside from here alone seemed incredibly consistent and accurate to what, you know, I expect my golf ball to do, especially around the greens. And that's where I think these types of units for better players are very very beneficial because you can take this for your chipping for your pitching and really work on your distance control, your spin with feedback, not simply kind of guessing or pacing or putting things down like to get that extra piece of data and feedback. Really, really good. I was very impressed. Just obviously easier to set up than something down the line for every chip you hit. just move it with you outside. This thing to me was worth the $3,200. So then I brought it back in here and I put the club stickers on. And club stickers are just a necessary evil with optical launch monitors and Golf Joy stickers. I don't love them. I kind of learned with the the GDS Pro. The GDS Pro took a lot more stickers. This only takes one, but it's on the to kind of toe side of the club. First, I thought you took the reflective sticker off like I did with the GDS Pro, but you don't have to. You can take the full black strip on and just put it on the toe of the club. It's one sticker. It's easy, but it's not the easiest. What what I use with the i Mini, just the one sticker, easy to go. Comes off the the page easy. This doesn't come off the plastic very easy. Stays on the club well, but obviously the data with the club stickers, it's going to be a bit more accurate of what that club is doing. the ball data doesn't change. And speaking of ball data, works with any ball. You don't need any marks on your ball. You don't need to use a specific ball like you do with some other down the line washers. This works with any ball if you're going to get used to it either way when you use the unit. It's just one of those things that everybody wishes wasn't a thing, but it's a thing. So, club stickers, they're there. They're easy enough to use. They're not the easiest to use, but the data obviously is good, but the pub stickers are for what the club is doing. So, now that we've talked about the data, the club accuracy, the stickers, I wanted to see how accurate this was because you can't make a launch monitor video without people saying, "How does it compare to other launch monitors?" I got thoughts about that, and we won't go too deep into it, but to compare a $20,000 launch monitor to a $700 launch monitor is apples and oranges. Those launch monitors are for different people, different golfers. They're going to be accurate enough for those golfers. This one, I compared it with my i Mini at $4,500. I compared it with the Meo Plus, which is like $2500ish, 26 with the Pro package and all of that. And I compared it with the Rapsoto, which is basically $700. We're going to see discrepancies. We're going to see differences when we compare all these launch monitors head-to-head. They're going to interfere with each other. The data is not going to be completely the same across all of the launch monitors, but the data was very, very interesting doing this. First and foremost, with the i Mini, everything was pretty close to each other. On both units, the launch angle and the angle of attack were basically the same. And I had a sticker. I had the IM mini sticker on and the sticker for this. So to see launch angle, angle of attack, that's obviously what especially with this thing having its gyroscope like we want to make sure that because you can learn a lot from that data. Spin is close within 300 to 300 RPM. What more do you want? Like there's going to be variance. There's going to be deviation. To me, that's good. That's impressive enough. And like I said, that unit's a,000 plus dollars more and they're reading pretty much the same distance and speed. This thing definitely read a little bit higher. So if the ball speed on this was clocking in one or two miles more, obviously the carry distance was two to four yards more, but at times when it was within a mile, the carry was within a yard and a bit. I was impressed. Yeah, seeing it read a little higher and speed and distance at first was a bit like, oh But then as you hit more and you got to hit a thousand shots with them together to really get it. of this was like five or six to see that closeness encouraging, you know, to speak to what this thing is reading and the accuracy of it. So then I put the MLM2 Pro down with the iMin and with this and again MLM2 Pro and this are like within a 100 of each other on RPM and I'm using the RPT ball for the rapoto. So that accuracy is fantastic. The launch and the angle of attack are are quite off. The i mini and this were pretty similar again, but then the wrap stood just read it all higher. It just makes me think I does something with it down the line beside with these there. Am I getting too much interference? Are the club stickers like there could be more at play, but to see the distance still be close enough in a yard to four yards is what I experienced. And the ball speed within a mile or two. Again, if this read a mile faster, a mile and a half faster in ball speed than the Rapoto, the distance, the carry will be a little bit more, but the spin is very, very accurate across the board. That's impressive. That's encouraging. As the Rapotto and this have similarities, but I don't think they're comparable for what you're wanting these launch monitors for. But before we do that, Mevo Plus had to get that into the fray. And we we're seeing again the yardages are pretty good. The spin is pretty good. Launch angle of attack on MEVO are way high. I don't know why. It could be the map. Like I don't know. I'm not a launch monitor scientist. But then the ball speed on the Mibo way up. So I wonder because I'm only using the sticker on the ball, not the new RCT balls. Is that a thing? Because when I practice with the MEVO or give a lesson with the MEVO, all the numbers to me are great that I put up against this. I'm not thinking the MEO numbers aren't good anymore. We're just learning that three, four shots with all of these, we're seeing a lot of similarities and a little bit of discrepancies, but the discrepancies are consistent from the faceon ones to the down the line ones when it comes to launch angle and angle of attack and then MEO with the ball speed being so high yet the spin being the same and the distance not being that off might be a little bit to do with the ball. But there you go. There's the accuracy. Everyone wants to know how accurate. Compare them. Compare them. Four or five shots, small sample size. the numbers and the data I would trust just like I would trust or I do trust with my i mini with all of the testing I do here on the channel. So now that all the kind of unit stuff is out of the way, I had to dive into the app. And the Golf Joy Pro app is really cool. The graphics are more video gamey. The data is good. It's not like very golfy, if you will. Like the i Mini, like what I use on the iPad is just straight up like data. It's I'm not It's not Cindy at all. It's just data. the me the FS Golf is just like data. So if you're just like testing golf clubs, fitting golf clubs, you want something that's very like data forward. Even the foresight stuff is very data forward. The Golf Joy apps are much more like fun forward. You've got 16 courses you can play on it. I played the Hay at Pebble Beach and man, it was a blast. I played 18 holes here one morning. It was awesome. The numbers were great. The spin was really good, especially around the greens, chipping, pitching. I I hit high, it went high. Like the sim capabilities from this are really good. I've been doing more sim golf and I've been testing different things and putting is always the like bugaboo. Putting seemed pretty good. like it seemed sensitive more maybe because of the slope on the greens at the hay that I couldn't figure out potentially, but like the short putts, three-foot putt felt like a three-foot putt. I find with a lot of sims, you're guessing. You're totally guessing. You're just like hoping to get it in that 10-ft gimme range. The putting seems best that I've experienced. The chipping, the pitching, hands down the best I've experienced. The graphics, the latency, this could make a sim golfer out of me. It was a lot of fun to test the sim experience. And speaking of the fun, we have all these game experiences. And I throw them up here and my son's almost four. He was loving it. He'd hit a little shot, try to explode the walls like unbelievable. So cool. And then there's like the target range practice, which looks like a Top Golf range. Hitting the target. My son loved it. Like I'm in here. He's telling me which one to hit. I've never had that experience with any other launch monitor that I've used that I've used for practice because if you know me, I think of launch monitors as practice tools, not making golf fun tools. But this is changing my mind. This is making me think that a launch monitor can be both. And that's no small feat. So, speaking of the practice, the practice range in the app is good. It's good. like it's giving you all the data you want, but it's it's not my cup of tea. I I like it, but there's others that I prefer, especially for what I do. Yeah. Testing golf equipments. I don't know how I would get a workflow going on that practice to get the data and pull the data. I'd have to spend some more time with it to get comfortable with it and maybe learn more. The data is all great. The the the replay is great. There's so much information more so than some of the other ones that I use or I I integrate into my workflow. But to like get just like a chart of the data a little bit harder for me. It was just like there's that one page and I can look at this. So if I were to think I wouldn't screenshot that. I wouldn't use this as my the unit for like the data on this channel. But the sim what it can be without an app is incredible. So then you kind of package that all together and it's only $3,200. Yeah, there's some subscriptions here or there, but that's like choose your own adventure. If you don't want the subscriptions, you don't have to get the subscriptions. You don't need a subscription just to like use it. This for $3,200. It's for those people that want to have fun first and foremost with their golf and their launch monitors. And that's Golf Toy Choice Think. Making golf fun, making it easy, fun, whatever their tagline is. This is so fun. So much fun. I'm spending time with my kid because of this. My other ones don't. That's worth a lot. That's worth That's priceless. That's priceless. And parents out there, you know what I'm talking about. And I could also get become a better golfer because of this. So, spike of three said, "Oh, you didn't pay attention. You never knew about it." Well, maybe it's something you need to Google a little bit more. And if you are in that that that budget and that's what you can justify spending for your practice and your sim golf and your setup, give this one a