Garmin S1 accuracy?

[CMAC]

last few rounds I've played against players using the Garmin S2/S3 and Skycaddie I've found the S1 to be anything up to 10 yards out, not a huge distance but makes a difference if it's under 170yds to go.

Anyone else notice this or have I a faulty one

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I have last years S1. My playing partner has this years S1. there is often a 10 yard difference between ours.......go figure.

 

[tallpaul]

Is it running the latest version of the software?

 

[Smiffy]

I had an S1 and sold it because it was so far out with it's yardages.
It would say I had 158 to go and I'd come up 40 yards short with a wedge everytime.
Bloody thing.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I had an S1 and sold it because it was so far out with it's yardages.
It would say I had 158 to go and I'd come up 40 yards short with a wedge everytime.
Bloody thing.

my mate has that issue...whereas my older one seems much more accurate. his is the newer model.

 

[duncan mackie]

last few rounds I've played against players using the Garmin S2/S3 and Skycaddie I've found the S1 to be anything up to 10 yards out, not a huge distance but makes a difference if it's under 170yds to go.

Anyone else notice this or have I a faulty one

you need to walk the difference in to the front edge of the green to find what's causing the error - it's extremely unlikely to be the GPS engine ie the unit knows where it is accurately, and most likely to be poorly mapped course data. This will show up with it showing 10 yards to go to the front edge when you are already standing there! If it suddenly jumps it's distances and correct to match the yardage on the way in then it suggests a faulty GPS; possibly an internal aerial issue.

 

[jimbob.someroo]

Not had an issue with mine thus far and the only times I've doubted the yardage, I've inevitably come up short / gone long after not trusting the number it was showing

 

[chrisd]

I had an S1 and sold it because it was so far out with it's yardages.
It would say I had 158 to go and I'd come up 40 yards short with a wedge everytime.
Bloody thing.

Wouldn't you have been better off selling the wedge?

 

[Smiffy]

Wouldn't you have been better off selling the wedge?

I got round it by changing to a 7 iron. I've never been short since.

 

[Papas1982]

I had an S1 and sold it because it was so far out with it's yardages.
It would say I had 158 to go and I'd come up 40 yards short with a wedge everytime.
Bloody thing.

Maybe you can't hit your wedge 160 after all........

 

[Lump]

3 of my regular group have S1's, all are within 5yrds of each. The last guy has a bushnell watch which is always 10-20yrds different.

 

[brendy]

3 of my regular group have S1's, all are within 5yrds of each. The last guy has a bushnell watch which is always 10-20yrds different.

As anti gps as I am, I must not point and laugh......

 

[Riverdale]

Mine seems pretty accurate. I'm not a good enough golfer for a need for exact accuracy and the S1 works well for me.

My pal had a problem with his S1 last week though. It was showing 210 to the middle whilst he was standing next to the 150 yard marker and he was relying on the S1 being accurate so he pulled out his 5 wood. When I asked him what he was playing at using a 5 wood, he told me what the S1 was saying. I asked for a look and pointed out that it was ten past two and he needed to flick back to the distances rather than the time. When he did that - he found he had 146 yards to the middle

 

[brendy]

haha some people shouldnt be allowed technology.

Mine seems pretty accurate. I'm not a good enough golfer for a need for exact accuracy and the S1 works well for me.

My pal had a problem with his S1 last week though. It was showing 210 to the middle whilst he was standing next to the 150 yard marker and he was relying on the S1 being accurate so he pulled out his 5 wood. When I asked him what he was playing at using a 5 wood, he told me what the S1 was saying. I asked for a look and pointed out that it was ten past two and he needed to flick back to the distances rather than the time. When he did that - he found he had 146 yards to the middle

 

[Smiffy]

Maybe you can't hit your wedge 160 after all........