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Launch monitor data export: which devices let you export, and what you actually get

Last updated: September 7, 2026

By Andrew · Founder of Fore-ward Thinking, a golfer who lives in launch monitor data and built an AI coach that remembers every session.

Most launch monitors export shot data, but not all of them. Garmin, Trackman Performance Studio, Foresight, SkyTrak, FlightScope, Square and Uneekor all export a file. The Rapsodo MLM2PRO and E6 Connect export nothing. The files that do exist hide unit switches, zero rows and duplicated column names that will corrupt your averages.

Figure 1 · five devices · can you get the file, and what bites you

Which launch monitors let you export shot data?

Seven of the twelve launch monitors below export shot data, three export nothing at all, and two export a file whose format nobody has published. The table covers the devices golfers ask about most, current as of September 2026.

Sources, each the manufacturer's own documentation. Garmin export steps: Exporting Driving Range Session Data on Garmin Golf App. Trackman export path: Shot Analysis, How To Export A CSV File From TPS. Foresight subscription tiers: GC3s, Launch Pro, and Launch Pro Indoor Subscriptions. Rapsodo's no export position: Frequently Asked Golf Questions.

What is actually in a launch monitor export file?

Most exports give you one row per shot with ball flight columns that are broadly consistent across devices, plus club delivery columns that only appear on units with the hardware to measure them. If a column name is unfamiliar, the launch monitor metrics glossary defines each one.

The ball flight columns you can expect on nearly every export that exists:

• Ball speed (mph or m/s, but you may not know which without checking)
• Launch angle (degrees)
• Spin rate (rpm, sometimes labeled backspin; may be estimated on radar units)
• Carry distance and total distance (yards or meters)
• Side spin or spin axis (not all devices include both)

Club delivery columns appear only on units that can see the club directly, and even then the set varies by unit. Club speed, club path and attack angle are the common ones. Budget radar units like the Garmin R10 model them rather than measuring them:

• Club speed
• Smash factor (sometimes computed from ball speed / club speed)
• Club path and attack angle
• Face angle, face to path and dynamic loft, on far fewer units than people assume

Face angle is the one to check before you buy on the strength of it. The Foresight GC3 does not report face angle at any price, and no Uneekor Eye Mini or Eye Mini Lite populates it either. The first units that measure it are the GCQuad tier with fiducial markers, and Trackman. See which launch monitor to buy for the number you want for the full per unit breakdown, and the launch monitor accuracy table for what each unit measures against what it models.

What traps hide inside launch monitor CSV files?

The seven traps are wrong units, a rounded smash factor, zero rows that are not zeros, a preamble row above the header, padding and summary rows, blank columns read as zero, and identical column names that mean different things. I hit the first six writing parsers against my own Eye Mini Lite exports and a real Square Omni file, in roughly the order they will bite you.

1. Units are not always what the app shows. A real Square Omni export reads ClubSpeed 38.8 next to BallSpeed 109.8 mph, because the club speed column is in meters per second regardless of what the app displays. If you average those raw numbers together you get nonsense. The quick test: divide ball speed by club speed on any full swing. If the ratio is above about 1.6, the club figure is in meters per second, because nothing in golf produces a smash factor that high. In this example, 109.8 divided by 38.8 is 2.83 raw. Convert 38.8 m/s to mph (multiply by 2.23694) and you get 86.8 mph club speed, making the real smash factor about 1.26. That is a wedge or a thin mid iron. It is low, but it is a number that exists in golf, which 2.83 is not.

2. Rounding hides strike quality. The Square Omni SmashFactor column is rounded to one decimal place. A printed 1.3 covers everything from a scuffed 1.25 through a decent 1.34. If smash factor matters to your analysis, recompute it yourself from ball speed divided by club speed (after fixing the unit trap above).

3. Zero rows are not zeros. When the device gets no club read on a shot, some exports fill the entire club data block with zeros rather than leaving it blank. A raw average across your session is quietly dragged down by shots that were never measured. Filter out any row where club speed is zero before computing averages.

4. A preamble row sits above the header. The Square Omni export puts a date and location row above the real column header row. Most spreadsheet imports treat this preamble as the header, which shifts every column to text and makes formulas silently fail. Delete the preamble row before importing, or specify the header row manually.

5. Padding fills the file. My own Eye Mini Lite export lands as a template roughly 1,001 rows by 1,026 columns, and only 26 of those columns carry anything; about 990 are empty comma padding. It also bakes in a units row and Average, Max and Min summary rows. If you select the whole column and average it, the summary rows count as data and the empty rows may count as zeros. Exclude everything except the actual shot rows before doing any math.

6. Blank is not the same as zero. On the Eye Mini Lite, face angle, dynamic loft, face to path, and impact position are always blank because the hardware physically cannot read them. Attack angle is intermittent, often blank on wedge files. A blank column means the device cannot see that parameter. It does not mean the value is zero, and it does not mean the shot was bad.

7. Column names collide across devices. ClubSpeed and SmashFactor appear in both the Square Omni and the GSPro community export header, but the same column name does not guarantee the same unit or the same computation method. If you are comparing files from two devices, verify the units independently in each file before combining them.

How do you clean a launch monitor export before analyzing it?

Clean an export in five passes: delete the non data rows, verify the units on every column, filter out the zero rows, mark the blank columns as unmeasured, then recompute any derived value the file rounded. Each one is a trap from the section above, in the order it costs you the most.

1. Delete the non data rows. Preamble, units row, the Average, Max and Min summary rows, and the empty padding. Keep the shot rows and one header row.
2. Run the ratio test on club speed. Ball speed over club speed, on a few full swings. Then check carry and total for the same mismatch.
3. Drop every row where club speed is zero.
4. Mark the entirely blank columns as unmeasured so none of them reaches a formula as a zero.
5. Recompute smash yourself, ball speed over club speed in the same unit, rather than trusting the rounded column.

What if my launch monitor has no export at all?

If your device has no export, you are limited to manual capture or working within the manufacturer's own app. Two major devices fall into this category today.

Rapsodo offers no CSV export from the MLM2PRO app. Rapsodo's own FAQ states it plainly: "Currently, we don't offer the ability to export data from a session in CSV or similar format." Only video clips can be exported, and R Cloud shows a shot table with no download button. MLM2PRO owners ask about this constantly, and the answer is still no from Rapsodo. Files do circulate through third party routes, which is why a decoder can read an MLM2PRO export when you have one.

E6 Connect has no export either. The portal lets you view round history, but there is no download and no CSV in the official manual. Your data stays inside E6.

If you own one of these devices, your options are screenshots, manual logging into a spreadsheet, or waiting for the manufacturer to add an export feature. What I would do is photograph the session summary screen before closing it and transcribe the handful of numbers that actually change a decision. It is tedious, and it is the only path to getting that data into a tool that can analyze it.

Can software read my launch monitor export automatically?

Yes, some tools can parse launch monitor CSVs and handle the unit conversions and cleanup for you, so you do not have to do it by hand in a spreadsheet.

Disclosure: I am the founder of Fore-ward Thinking. I wrote parsers against my own Eye Mini Lite exports and a real Square Omni file, got tired of catching the same unit mismatch and the same zero rows by hand every session, and put the logic into a free shot data decoder. It reads Trackman, the Foresight family, Uneekor, Garmin R10, FlightScope Mevo+, Square Golf and Rapsodo MLM2PRO exports in yards and mph. GSPro range exports and metric unit exports are not supported yet. It runs in your browser and nothing uploads.

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