davidy233
Tour Rookie
Don't think my wife downloaded any courses - it just picked ours up when she arrived at the club
Hello, this is my first post. I've got a few Christmas pounds and I'm looking at a gps watch. Just after some advice on the garmin S1 which I can get for£90 from direct golf or the sky caddie watch which I can get for £119 from direct golf. The sky caddie has a scorecard which is clearly an extra on the garmin but was more after reliability and accuracy opinion. I see sky caddie has dropped subscription fees which makes it quite tempting. Im not after any gags about getting a fitting just some cold hard rose tinted opinion.
Cheers
Wogga
I went for the S1 and it arrived today, as most kids with a new toy I want to take it up right now. First of all I need to wait for it to charge up and secondly I've got to download some courses. I think I've done it correctly just wondered if any S1 users could help me. It says it has approx 9,000 courses preprogrammed in, does this mean that's all it can hold and do I have to select courses or once I've done the download does it have all the courses.
Thanks in advance
Got the Garmin S4 as a mate works for Garmin and got a 50% discount... otherwise would have got the S1. Only had one round with it so far, so maybe need more time to make a true evaluation...but so far so good.
Not sure you would really miss the greenview and scorecard option with the S1... I found the scorecard was a bit fiddly and gave up on it in the end and the stats it recorded not quite as good as my free golfshot app. I used the greenview once... Also a bit too much fiddling around when I was really only interested in the middle of the green.
The next step is measure some of my shots...no use knowing exactly how far the green is away when you don't know how far each club goes.
Measured a couple of drives and they didn't got the 270 yards I was expecting
It will pick up the course automatically wherever you are. You don't need to download anything.
Im sure on a 30 degree day with hard baked fairways you'd managed it!
I got the S1 as a Christmas present this year. I know you can measure how far you have hit a shot in yards in course mode but is there any way to change the standard odometer in the menu from 1/10ths of a mile to yards? If so I haven't figured it out.
Reason being we have a decent sized pitch and putt nearby which is usually pretty quiet so you can get away with hitting full wedge shots across it. Was hoping to measure out some distances for practice once the weather improves and the grass gets cut.
How do you measure shot distance? Apart from working out the difference from Tee box to your shot?
When you're in a round, press and hold menu to select measure shot and then walk to your ball; the distance appears on the screen.How do you measure shot distance? Apart from working out the difference from Tee box to your shot?
A suggestion to WhereIsMyBall - maybe just stick it in course mode... ignore which hole it thinks you are on and measure away... end the round when you've finished practicing.