Why Are There Orange Boxes Behind Every Player on Tour

If you’ve watched professional golf recently — whether it’s the PGA Tour, DP World Tour or even the majors — you may have noticed something behind almost every player on the range.

A small orange box sitting a few yards behind the ball.

That box is TrackMan, and it has quietly become one of the most important tools in modern golf performance.

In fact, it has completely changed how the best players in the world practice, prepare and improve.

What Is TrackMan?

TrackMan is a dual radar system that tracks both the golf club and the golf ball through impact and flight.

It measures an extraordinary amount of data including:

• Club Path – the direction the club is travelling

• Face Angle – where the club face is pointing at impact

• Attack Angle – whether you hit up or down on the ball

• Dynamic Loft – the true loft delivered at impact

• Club Speed

• Ball Speed

• Spin Rate

• Launch Angle

• Carry Distance

• Curve and Start Line

This data allows players and coaches to see exactly why a shot behaved the way it did.

Instead of guessing… they know.

And that’s why TrackMan is now used by virtually every Tour player in the world.

Why Data Has Changed Golf Coaching

For many years golf instruction relied heavily on feel, opinion and visual observation.

But the problem with that approach is simple:

Golf swings happen far too fast for the naked eye to accurately measure impact conditions.

For example:

Two shots may look identical, but one might have:

• Face 2° open

• Path 3° left

Which produces a fade.

Another may have:

• Face 1° closed

• Path 4° right

Which produces a draw.

Without data you're often just guessing what happened.

With TrackMan, we know instantly.

That allows coaching to become far more precise and far more effective.

Why Indoor Practice Has a Huge Advantage

One of the biggest misconceptions in golf is that all practice environments are the same.

They’re not.

While outdoor ranges can track ball flight, they rarely measure club delivery accurately.

But indoors with TrackMan radar, we can capture every club movement through impact.

That means when you practice you can monitor things like:

• Club path

• Face angle

• Attack angle

• Dynamic loft

• Strike quality

In other words, you’re not just hitting balls.

You’re training impact.

And impact is what ultimately controls distance, direction and consistency.

Why the Best Players in the World Train This Way

Tour players don’t practice by simply hitting balls and hoping they go straight.

They practice with clear feedback and measurable targets.

For example they might train to achieve:

• Club Path: +2°

• Face Angle: +1°

• Attack Angle: +4°

• Launch Window: 12°

Every swing gives immediate feedback.

This makes improvement faster, clearer and more consistent.

It removes the guesswork.

How We Use This at GOLFiN and PMG Academies

At GOLFiN Indoor Performance Centre in Knaresborough, and across PMG Academies, we coach in exactly the same way as the best players in the world.

Every lesson and every practice session is supported by TrackMan data.

That means we can measure:

• Your club delivery

• Your strike quality

• Your ball flight

• Your distance control

And most importantly, we can build a clear improvement plan based on facts, not guesses.

Combine that with our PMG 5P’s coaching framework:

1. Plan

2. Process

3. Pressure

4. Performance

5. Practice

…and you get a structured pathway that turns information into real improvement on the course.

The Bottom Line

Those little orange boxes you see on Tour ranges aren’t there by accident.

They represent the modern era of golf improvement.

Data.

Clarity.

Measurable progress.

And that’s exactly how we coach and practice at GOLFiN and PMG Academies.

If you want to improve faster, practice smarter and understand your golf swing like the best players in the world…

Start using data, not guesswork.

Mark Pearson Academy Director PMG Academies GOLFiN Indoor Performance Centre