Meet PlayBetter Expert Danny Pfeiffer!
This is the story of how a tech professional brought his perspective to golf tech, testing launch monitors and sims the way everyday golfers actually use them.
The Story of a Golf Tech Evangelist
The first time Danny Pfeiffer ever used a golf launch monitor, he bought one that same day.
His brother had just set up a Rapsodo MLM2PRO in his basement. Danny took a few swings, watched the simulated ball flight and numbers populate on screen, and felt something he hadn’t felt in a while. He went home and ordered his own MLM2PRO.
It’s not like golf was new to Danny. He’d played in high school and casually in college before life took over and rounds got scarce.
But this was different. This wasn’t just golf. This was golf with data, and that combination did something to him.
For anyone who knows Danny, what happened next makes complete sense. He’s a technology evangelist by nature. He recently sold his own web development agency before moving into tech sales, where he spends his days doing product demos and helping customers realize value. When Danny finds something that genuinely delivers, he can’t help but want to get other people in on it.
So he set up his own sim studio, started filming, and began releasing YouTube content because he’s convinced that anybody even remotely connected to the game could benefit from a launch monitor, whether they have a dedicated sim space or are just headed out to the range.
His tech background shows up in how he evaluates gear. He’s got a genuine feel for user interface design, for where software creates unnecessary friction, for the difference between something impressive on paper and something that is actually a pleasure to use day-to-day. His current favorite sim software is the SkyTrak suite. Not only because it’s extensive, but because it’s simple to use.
Danny plays out of Colorado, where his outdoor season is limited and his sim runs three or four times a week through the winter. He shoots mid-90s, will tell you plainly that he sometimes has performance anxiety on the course, and jokes that he doesn’t have many golf buddies. In other words, he’s found that the sim life is the perfect complement to his overall love of the game.
What keeps pulling Danny back to the real golf course is wanting to validate what he’s building in the sim. He measures progress and wants to get better. And he believes that the technology makes the pursuit more addictive.
These days, his 15-year-old daughter has been showing some interest in picking up the game. Danny’s already thinking about how his sim studio is the perfect low-pressure place to introduce her to the game. For a guy who came back to golf through a screen in his brother’s basement, that feels like exactly the right way to do it.