KIT vs Square Golf Omni

These two sit in the same category but far apart in price and philosophy. The Omni is $1,599, a four-camera photometric unit that reads the ball at impact with no markings. It measures club path and attack angle with a shaft sticker and club speed and impact location with a face sticker as well; face angle and dynamic loft are Square's estimates. The KIT is $4,999, radar plus a built-in camera, carrying Tiger Woods's name and a genuinely polished app; it reports club speed, smash factor, path, face angle, face to path and attack angle with nothing to unlock, plus swing video of each shot.

The math is hard to argue with. For $3,400 less the Omni covers most of what a working golfer wants to see and adds impact location, though the KIT reports face angle where the Omni estimates it. Both work indoors and outdoors. Indoors the Omni fits a shorter room, reading at impact from beside the ball: about 14 ft at the least on our room planner, where the KIT wants 8 to 10 ft behind the ball and 8 to 10 ft of flight, 17 ft or more. The KIT sits behind the ball, where handedness doesn't matter; Square says the Omni may need to be repositioned when players switch hands.

The KIT's case is the brand, the app experience, the swing video and the confidence of a unit from a well-known name. Radar also tends to be more forgiving of outdoor carry distance in an open setting. Course play costs something on both, and less on the Omni: its own app plays courses on per-hole credits with 1,000 included, while the KIT's comes from GSPro or E6 Connect, sold separately, or Full Swing Golf for KIT on subscription. Both are on GSPro's official list with no maker fee. So the decision comes down to whether polish, pedigree and swing video are worth $3,400 to you.