Falcon vs VX

Both mount on the ceiling, stay indoors and read right- and left-handed golfers with nothing to move, so the room is not what separates them. The price is: the VX is $6,500 at every retailer we track, and the Falcon is $16,999, Foresight's own store included. Foresight's Falcon manual puts the ideal ceiling at 9.5 to 10.5 ft, with the center of the mat about 4 ft from the unit; ProTee asks for at least 9 ft.

The Falcon uses four high-speed cameras, and Foresight's product page lists a 59 by 28 inch hitting zone. Its full club set — path, face, attack angle, loft, lie, impact location and closure rate — comes from four reflective markers on the club face. The VX uses two cameras over a 25 by 21 inch zone and needs no marked balls and no club stickers. Its club data covers speed, path, face angle, face to path, attack angle, dynamic loft, lie angle and impact point.

The running costs split on software. ProTee charges no recurring fee. Its ProTee Labs software covers practice, and course play goes through third-party programs: GSPro lists the VX officially at $250 a year, and E6 Connect is a $2,500 ProTee licence sold in TruGolf's store. The Falcon runs Foresight Premier, and course play needs a Foresight+ membership (Silver $199/yr or Gold $599/yr) plus a Course Pass ($295/yr for 35 courses, $595/yr for 111), roughly $500 to $1,200 a year. GSPro on the Falcon needs Gold on top of GSPro's own $250. A new Falcon comes with 30 days of Gold and Course Pass Pro.

On GSPro, which both run, five years comes to about $7,750 for the VX ($6,500 plus $250 a year) and about $21,244 for the Falcon ($16,999 plus $849 a year for Gold and GSPro). The Falcon is for a buyer who wants Foresight's data and ecosystem overhead and will use the bigger zone. For a room built around GSPro, the VX covers the essentials — overhead, both-handed, full club data — for roughly a third of the five-year cost.