Foresight Sports GC3 Launch Monitor Review

The Foresight Sports GC3 launch monitor delivers uncompromising accuracy and performance, both outdoors and indoors. The release of the GC3 comes more than a decade after the launch of the GC2 – one of the best golf launch monitors at the time of its launch. The latest addition to the Foresight Sports GC family provides the unmatched data accuracy and true-to-life simulation experience Foresight offers at a lower price point than the company’s flagship launch monitor – the GCQuad.

Built using the same advanced photometric technology found in the GCQuad, the new GC3 features a three-camera system that measures ball and club performance data, both outdoors and indoors, with exceptional precision. The GC3 measures the golf club and ball with exceptional, sub-millimetre, accuracy. This means the feedback is extremely precise and reliable. Just 30cm high and weighing just over 2kg, it’s a fully portable unit and can easily be taken out with you if you’d like to measure shots on the course. 

The unit produces comprehensive ball data – speed, launch, spin and carry distance, as well as club head data – speed, efficiency, club path and angle of attack. If you’re looking to understand your swing and improve your game, the GC3 is a hugely useful tool. Unlike the GCQuad, the GC3 does not measure face angle, loft and lie, impact location or closure rate, nor does it provide full putting data, although you can gain access to basic putting data by applying one sticker to the face. Overall, we found the accuracy to be more than comparable with the GCQuad. The FSX software that displays the performance analysis still looks a little dated but has improved greatly, now showing all the metrics measured, split into club and ball data, as well as each shot's trajectory.

The GC3 has been designed to fill the gap between the original ball-data-only GC2 and the high-level data insight of the GCQuad. The GC3 delivers the essential ball and club data you need to reliably improve your game as well as power a true-to-life virtual golf experience. It’s available with the FSX 2020 and FSX Play simulator options from Foresight Sports Europe with a range of software to play world-class courses and various skills challenges.