Skycaddie SG5

You have to subscribe unless you want to map the course yourself. But a one year subscription (£29.99) should suit if you don't play away much. Just put 10 courses on before it runs out and renew as and when required, if indeed you need to.
 
If you subscribe and never want to change courses, what happens at the end of the year? Have to pay again for your same courses?
 
No as far as I am aware you just don't renew and keep the same courses, even if they try and renew it automatically I will just tell my bank not to let them- depending of course on whether I will want to change courses or not. If you don't want to pay again I'm sure you don't have to. I think I probably will though.
 
I play abroad quite a bit, so went for the £40 per year subscription, which on top of the price of the gadget seems expensive. However, when looked at as an annual subscription for unlimited global course downloads, isn't really much at all. My sky subscription is nearly £50 per month, my spend on balls, tees, and base ball hats annually comes to way more than £40. I spend more than this on chewing gum. Really, it isn't much.
 
I play abroad quite a bit, so went for the £40 per year subscription, which on top of the price of the gadget seems expensive. However, when looked at as an annual subscription for unlimited global course downloads, isn't really much at all. My sky subscription is nearly £50 per month, my spend on balls, tees, and base ball hats annually comes to way more than £40. I spend more than this on chewing gum. Really, it isn't much.
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Some good points there Murph, and an excellent justification! When you look at it like that I think I will definitely renew my subscription.
 
No, I'm pretty sure you don't. You certainly wouldn't have to if you didn't want to- just get your bank to refuse payment although you then are stuck with the courses downloaded within the first year.
 
I have played 12 new courses this year, so it would work out at less than £4 per course. If you only need less than 10 courses, you can download these, and call it quits. I am going to Florida at Easter like usual, where I normally play 10 courses. I will download these onto my mini lap top, and take them with me as you can't guarantee the courses will have gps in the buggies. You can only store 10 on your pc, as I guess otherwise you would download all 22,000 onto a portable harddrive in your first month, and bang goes the revenue. I bet they don't make alot on the m/c, just on the subscription, and someone still has to go out and map the courses. Give them a break, it isn't that expensive, and it is a very good service.
 
Just to let people know, my dilemma with the broken clip has been solved. I phoned skycaddie today and they are going to send me a new one free of charge in the post tomorrow. Seems they also provide excellent customer service which is always good.
 
I will download these onto my mini lap top, and take them with me as you can't guarantee the courses will have gps in the buggies. You can only store 10 on your pc,
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Murph
I thought that when you plugged the SC2.5 into your PC and clicked on the Skycaddie link, they "talked" to each other and courses are downloaded directly onto the SC2.5 and not on the PC. Or have I read the info wrong?
 
Just to let people know, my dilemma with the broken clip has been solved. I phoned skycaddie today and they are going to send me a new one free of charge in the post tomorrow. Seems they also provide excellent customer service which is always good.
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If you use a powered trolley, do what one of my playinf partners does with his. He doesn't clip the device to his belt, but instead clips it to one of the front pockets of his bag & simply makes sure the bag is always level to where he's playing, then a quick glance at the device on the bag & he's ready to take his next shot.. Simple; you'll be unlikely to break the clip again. :D :D
 
My understanding is that you can only download into the SC and not onto the PC
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I'm sure I once overheard someone talk about downloading info onto one of these memory USB thingamys for future use to get more than 10 courses at once, but not sure how this was suposed to be done. tbqh it seems easier to simply stump up the thirty quid a year for the convinience of downloading what courses you want when you need them during the year.
 
My issue is more getting internet access in Florida, as I have a 3g dongle, but this will be expensive. I don't know if the ten courses are stored on your pc, or on the web, but I know you can only have 5 on your machine. I need to experiment with it off line, and see what happens. Not had it long enough to be fully conversant with it.
 
Just one more thing, all the advantages of the device are rendered completely useless if you forget to charge the damn thing,as happened to me today. Grrr!
 
Just one more thing, all the advantages of the device are rendered completely useless if you forget to charge the damn thing,as happened to me today. Grrr!
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so that will be yet another in car charger (mobile, sat nav) as another 'optional' extra. lucky I fitted a triple charger point!
 
ok, read the article in Golf World now and all the feedback in this thread have decided on the SkyCaddie SG 2.5.

The sonocaddie and the SG5 are tempting, but not at that price.

Thanks for all the great info.

Hopefully it'll be here for my round next weekend and I'll let you know how I get on.
 
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