Europe Won the Solheim Cup on a Trackman Stage. The Same Data Runs Your Bay on W. 39th.
Europe Won the Solheim Cup on a Trackman Stage. The Same Data Runs Your Bay on W. 39th.
Team Europe claimed the 2026 Solheim Cup. Fifteen points to thirteen.
At Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt, Netherlands, Europe won back women’s golf’s premier team trophy at the 20th edition of the Solheim Cup, running September 11 through 13. The U.S. and Europe entered Sunday’s singles matches knotted 8-8 after a tightly contested two-day run. The home team pulled away early in the final session. Carlota Ciganda secured the decisive point, beating Jennifer Kupcho 4 and 2. Captain Anna Nordqvist, who spent fifteen years as a player for Europe before taking the captaincy, left Bernardus having won it as a captain too.
Then there is the technology that ran the whole event.
Trackman was named the Official Ball Tracking and Simulator Supplier of the 2026 Solheim Cup. Not a peripheral sponsorship. The measurement infrastructure. Every ball flight quantified for broadcast and precision analysis went through Trackman’s radar and camera systems at Bernardus. The company has more than 100,000 installations across over seventy countries and serves as the official data standard on the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA Tour, and LIV Golf. Those same systems run the bays inside Hack Shack at 108 W. 39th Street, six blocks from Bryant Park.
Trackman built a global competition around the tournament. From August 26 through September 13, any golfer at a Trackman-powered indoor facility could register, pick a side, and play the four par 3 holes at Bernardus Golf as a closest-to-pin challenge. Hole 4 with bunkers narrowing the approach. Hole 6 with the green pressed against water. Hole 11 running long alongside sand, the toughest of the four. Hole 15 leaving almost no margin between the flag and the hazards surrounding it. The data engine was the same one the pros competed under on live television. Different side of the Atlantic.
A common question about indoor Trackman setups is whether the accuracy inside a simulator bay actually matches what the system delivers outdoors on tour. Trackman CTO Fredrik Tuxen addressed that directly in a piece published September 10. His answer: it does.
Trackman iO combines Doppler radar with high-speed cameras and infrared illumination inside a single ceiling-mounted unit. Radar handles ball speed and depth information that cameras cannot reliably produce on their own. The cameras run at 1,800 frames per second, measuring 3D spin orientation to within less than one degree. No special balls required. No markers on the club. The system reads grooves directly and recalibrates its zero point for launch direction automatically each time it starts. The golfer does not touch any of that process.
That matters in a lesson context specifically. When your instructor pulls up your face angle at impact or your attack angle with a specific club, the precision of that number traces back to an automated calibration you never had to think about. That is a meaningful difference from systems that require manual alignment before each session. We covered how Trackman’s data turns elite ball-striking into something you can actually study when Scottie Scheffler dismantled the FedEx St. Jude field in August. Same principle. Different player.
September is the right moment to think about this. Bryant Park’s outdoor season is closed. Fall golf windows in New York are shorter than anyone wants. Hack Shack runs year-round, with Trackman bays available for open play, group events, and instruction backed by the same system that measured every shot at Bernardus Golf last weekend.
The technology just won a Solheim Cup. Book a bay.