Three new golf-tech videos put coaching data, on-course capture and simulator software under the microscope

Three recent golf-tech videos cover three different jobs for technology: helping coaches interpret ball and club data, recording a round without interrupting it, and changing the software around a home simulator. Taken together, they are a useful snapshot of where the category is moving, but the evidence is not equally strong for every product claim.

Trackman's September 18 video is the most education-focused of the group. PGA of America educators Eric Hogge and Tim Cusick discuss how coaches use objective data to establish baselines, identify changes and explain those changes to players. The video also profiles Jonathan Buchanan's City Golf Club, Travis Lynch's junior instruction and Cameron McCormick's elite-player work.

Trackman's accompanying article, published September 16, supplies the important context: PGA of America education serves more than 30,000 Golf Professionals, while Trackman provides ball and club data that can confirm what a coach sees and reveal what is harder to observe. The useful takeaway for golfers is not that a number replaces a coach. It is that the coach has to decide which number matters and translate it into a drill or decision the player can understand.

BirdieSense shifts the camera from the lesson tee to the course. In its September 17 video, CLPGA professional Stefanie Deng plays nine holes with the company's on-course mounting kit. The video description says the system stays oriented on a bag or cart, detects shots, captures metrics and creates swing clips without a separate tripod or editing session.

Those are manufacturer claims presented in a product demonstration, so they should be read as a workflow test rather than an independently measured performance review. BirdieSense's own site describes its broader product around AI swing analysis, computer vision, video capture and launch metrics. The video also says the mounting kit will be offered in the future and points viewers to a Kickstarter campaign, which makes availability an open question rather than a settled retail fact.

The third video, posted September 16 by Golf Simulator Videos, is a reviewer walkthrough of SkyTrak 6.2. It highlights a new connection wizard, profile area, My Bag and bag-mapping changes, alongside a new scorecard, physics adjustments, redesigned drop options and other gameplay changes. The chapter list also identifies testing at Pebble Beach.

The verification caveat matters here: SkyTrak's official downloads page currently lists version 5.8.27 and its published release notes through 5.8, while the 6.2 feature list is documented in the independent review and its transcript. That does not disprove the review, but it means readers should confirm the rollout and device eligibility in the app before treating every feature as generally available.

The common thread is translation. Trackman shows data being translated into coaching language; BirdieSense tries to turn a round into an automatically organized media record; SkyTrak puts more setup and practice controls inside the simulator software. For golfers deciding what to test, the practical questions are straightforward: does the data change a lesson, does the capture system stay out of the way for a full round, and is the software update available for the specific device and platform? The videos make those questions clearer without proving that any one tool is the right answer for every player.