Dancin' Dogg OptiShot Infrared Golf Simulator

Great Indoor Simulator at home.

having lots of fun playing with my 9 year old son.

Normally my son practice at home around half hour daily at home with only practise matt. With Optishot Simulator, he have been playing for hours. It was fun & great for training him without any push now.

I was a bit tenitive about buying the Optishot becuase some of the reviews that I have read. When I first tried it, all my shots were coming up short from what I hit on the range. I took the time to set up the club set according to instructions found online and everything fell inplace. My Son and I have been having an blast playing in our living room. Optishot gives great feed back. My swing has been improving becuase of it.

works pretty good but I do not think the distance is very accurate

I find opti shot a lot of fun and easy to use. I have read about lighting issues in reviews, but must say, I have had no lighting issues with mine. It is not sitting in direct light of any kind (sunlight or otherwise). I am still tweeking with some of the settings such as club set make up. It is quite remarkable, in my opinion, how accurate it is.

took a long time to get software to load on new comp. drive range the ball doesn't show true flight, distances are off, doesn't work w/driver or woods if swing to too fast. great to teach kids how to golf

Having coached collegiate golf, this simulator is as good as it gets for the price. Obviously there are more things I would like it to do, but you aren't paying $15,000 for its services. And unless you are an idiot, like the other guy who posted a review, and actually tried to take it to the range (WTF!?!?), if you read the instructions it will tell you it is sensitive to certain lighting, which will cause misreadings. It also instructs you on how to change the distance of your shots so they are similar to the distances you hit on the course. For the price, buy it. You won't regret it, unless you are a 79 handicap and have no understanding of golf, like the other guy. Then you should just get a Wii and play with that...

You CAN hit with a real ball, and you can use your real clubs. Also, it is very sturdy and the sensors are extremely durable so don't worry about chunking it. I found it very useful for our college athletes to at least get to play some golf during snow season, rather than doing nothing than hitting into a net, where you really can't tell where the ball is going, or if you are hitting it correctly, causing swing errors.

The Opti-shot is useless without a ball which makes playing the courses with friends of no value. I also have not found any conditions in which I have been able to use it at the driving range (morning or evening sun, cloudy conditions, etc.) thus preventing me from determining its accuracy under playing conditions. It also limits its use to indoors with a foam ball. Under these conditions, it has been somewhat helpful. It definitely tells me when I have hit the ball with the toe of the club and is accurate most of the time in determining an open or closed face. However, there are a significant number of occasions in which it indicates an open face and fade when in actuality I had definitely pulled the ball.
I cannot recall any instances where my pulls on the golf course ended up as a slice. It is very hard to adjust the clubs for distance since the Opti-shot is sensitive to the lighting conditions. You can adjust the speed and distance in one setting (i.e. basement) only to find they do not work in another (garage, family room).
My swing varies from outside/in to square to inside/out which tells me I must be close to square most of the time. I wish the program would state "slight outside/in and slight inside/out" (as it does for slight toe vs. toe) so you would have a better feeling for your swing.