Foresight GC2 vs FlightScope Mevo Gen2: $1,699 Camera or $1,299 Radar?

When I put the new Foresight GC2 up against the Square Omni, a big part of that story was trust. A proven brand versus a newcomer.

This matchup doesn’t have that dynamic.

Foresight and FlightScope have both been building launch monitors for a long time. Both have earned the respect of serious players, fitters, and coaches all the way up to the absolute top levels of the game. Neither one is asking you to take any kind of leap of faith.

Instead, what we’ve got here really comes down to the fundamental choice between camera and radar. But with the GC2 and Mevo Gen2, that choice is about a lot more than just how the ball gets read.

The GC2 is a $1,699 camera unit that sits beside the ball. It’s got two cameras, 13 ball data metrics, and no club data. It has a color screen built right in. And if you want to save your data, play Foresight’s new sim courses, or connect to GSPro, you’re paying an annual subscription to Foresight.

The Mevo Gen2 is a $1,299 radar unit that sits 8 feet behind the ball. It runs on FlightScope’s Fusion Tracking, a combination of Doppler radar and synchronized image processing, and it gives you 20 ball and club data parameters out of the box. You don’t get a screen. But you also don’t have to worry about a subscription. You’ve got the option to add a much deeper set of club data and face impact location later as one-time purchases.

Like the other head-to-heads in this series, I’ve scored this matchup from 0 through 5 in 10 categories:

Price

First Impressions Upon Unboxing

Setup Process

Portability

Data

Outdoor Use

Indoor Use

Features

Simulator Use

Annual Subscription Cost

I’ll include a total at the end, but I’m looking at this much more as a by-category exercise. These are my honest brief thoughts on each one of these individual topics, with scores assigned for each. I think you may weigh one topic as more important than another, and so I don’t consider the total score to be as important as the individual ones.

Enough disclaimers. Let’s get into the Foresight GC2 vs the FlightScope Mevo Gen2.

Mevo Gen2 Gives You More for Less on Price

Foresight GC2 = 3; FlightScope Mevo Gen2 = 5

For $1,299, the Mevo Gen2 gives you Fusion Tracking, 20 ball and club data parameters, lifetime ownership of an 8-course E6 Connect bundle, a carry case, and GSPro compatibility with nothing extra owed to FlightScope.

For $1,699, the GC2 gives you two cameras, ball data only, and a built-in color screen.

That's $400 more for less data.…