Setting Up Your TrackMan Screen

What to look at, where to find it, and how to use it to improve faster.

Before You Hit a Ball When you walk into a GreenBays bay for the first time, TrackMan Performance Studio (TPS) will already be running on the screen. Here's how to get it set up so you're actually learning from every shot - not just hitting balls into a screen.

Step 1 — Start Shot Analysis

From the TPS home screen:

1. Click Start Shot Analysis

2. Click Start on the target image screen - this confirms the radar is calibrated and ready

3. Select your player profile (or create one with your name)

4. Select your club

The green TrackMan icon in the top right corner means the radar is armed and ready to track. You're good to go.

Tracy — Your In-Bay Virtual Assistant

Before you hit your first shot, check the top right corner for the orange Tracy icon. Click it to activate TrackMan's built-in virtual assistant. Tracy provides real-time feedback and insights as you hit — flagging patterns in your data as they emerge, without you needing to interpret everything yourself. For a first session it's worth leaving on.

Step 2 — Customise Your Data Tiles

After your first shot, a row of data tiles appears along the bottom of the screen. These are your metrics.

By default, TPS shows a standard set - but for most sessions you'll want to customise these. Here's how:

1. Click the gear icon (Settings) in the top right

2. Select which data tiles you want displayed at the bottom of the screen

3. Click and drag tiles to reorder them however you like

4. Click the gear icon again to close

Recommended tiles for your first session:

• Impact Location — where on the face you're striking the ball

• Attack Angle — whether you're hitting down through the ball or scooping

• Carry Distance — how far the ball actually flies

• Launch Angle — the initial trajectory off the face

• Landing Angle — how steeply the ball is descending when it lands

  
  

Step 3 — Set Up Your Visual Screen

The data tiles give you numbers. The visual screen shows you what's actually happening. This is where most first-timers miss a trick.

Click the four squares icon in the top right corner to choose your view. For a first session, the two most useful are:

• Impact Location View Shows a face map of exactly where the ball contacted the club — centre, heel, toe, high or low. Select this tile from the four squares menu. This single view explains more about your ball flight than almost any other metric.

• Shot Tracer View Shows side and aerial views of your ball flight for each shot. Select the side/aerial ball flight tile from the same menu.

• Running both at once: Click the four squares icon and add a second panel alongside your first. You can display Impact Location on one side and Shot Tracer on the other simultaneously. This is the setup your coach will use during a lesson, and the one worth getting familiar with from session one.

Bonus — Change Your Background

One of the more enjoyable features of TPS: you can swap the driving range backdrop for a world-famous course hole. To change it:

1. Click the four squares icon in the top right

2. Select Tracker from the view options

3. In the top left corner, click the image selection dropdown

4. Choose from: Country Club, St Andrews Old Course (Hole 18), PGA National GC (Hole 3), TaylorMade Kingdom, Titleist Performance Institute, Titleist Manchester Lane, or TrackMan Desert Range

The background updates immediately. It doesn't change your data, but hitting wedges into a virtual St Andrews is considerably more enjoyable than a plain range backdrop.

Step 4 — Change Club Mid-Session When you switch clubs:

1. Click the club icon at the top of the screen

2. Select the new club

TPS will automatically group your shots by club, so you can review each separately at the end of the session.'

Step 5 — Save Your Session

Before you leave the bay:

1. Click the back arrow in the top left, then the home button

2. Press OK when the save window appears

Your data is saved to TPS and can be accessed later via Shot History. If you're working with one of our coaches, they can pull this up at your next session.

The Two Metrics Worth Obsessing Over First

There are dozens of data points available in TPS. For a first-time user, ignore most of them. Start here:

• Impact Location — Most ball-flight problems trace back to where the ball hits the face. A heel strike behaves differently to a toe strike, regardless of your swing. Get this consistent before worrying about anything else.

• Attack Angle — This tells you whether the club is moving up or down at the moment it contacts the ball. For wedges and irons, you want a slightly downward strike. If you're scooping, no amount of technique work will fix your contact until this changes.

Everything else; carry distance, spin rate, launch angle, starts to make more sense once those two are under control.

One Last Thing

The red TrackMan icon means the radar has stopped tracking. Most of the time this is a calibration issue and easy to fix yourself. Click the TrackMan logo at the bottom of the menu to go to the calibration screen, then select Projector calibration and run Auto Target. That resolves it in most cases.

If you need the full calibration steps, follow TrackMan's guide here.

Questions about your data? Our coaches Taine Pearse is available for lessons across both locations. Book via the GreenBays website.

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