sean1098
Assistant Pro
do you have to pay each year, or can you download courses and play with out membership ?
Sean.
Sean.
skycaddy sgx ?
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bigfoot1985
Head Pro
pay each year, its about £30
TonyN
Money List Winner
Sean, If I remember rightly, when the subscription finishes, your stuck with what ever is on the unit its self.
Although I may be wrong.
Although I may be wrong.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
If it's like SC5 you can only use what is on the base unit until you renew so if you wanted to add another course it won't do it. I imagine the SGX won't let you download your scores or stats either if the account isn't active
chris661
Money List Winner
Another thing I remember being posted here if your sub lapses in May and you renew it in Sep then it only gives you until the next May!!
chrisd
Major Champion
When my SG4 ran over a couple of weeks on the subscription I found all the courses wiped
Chris
Chris
So once your subs finish you can use the 20 courses you have already downloaded without renewing the subs? Or have I got that wrong?
cheezburga
Club Champion
Am pretty sure that when the subscription lapses, courses are no longer available - not even the ones your have already downloaded onto the machine. The only ones you can use are those you have recorded yourself.
You can't subscribe for, say, one year, get the half dozen or so courses you're really interested in, then let the subscription lapse & keep the courses. Am afraid it's all or nothing - keep paying & have all the courses, stop paying, no courses.
chrisd
Major Champion
Mine were all wiped off a while after the subscription ran out. I then tried to renew about 2 months later and it wanted to back date to when it lapsed, which wasn't accetable. I had to de register and then re register to start the new subscription from the current date
Chris
Chris
bobmac
Major Champion
Of you could just get a sonnocaddie.
No fees,
no memberships
no hidden costs
Free course downloads
By the product, keep it for ever (and all your courses)
It's a no brainer for me.
Unless of course you have an iphone.
No, wait, compass,
FaldosJumper
Challenge Tour Pro
Yeah, courses wiped but you can use it to map any course you like yourself and use it like that but not much point really. I also thought you may have to pay a reconnection fee if it lapses for x amount of time. Sure I read that on an email from them when my was set to expire in August, may have mis-read it though.
However, you get what you pay for 
chrisd
Major Champion
Wern't around when I got my Skycaddie, I would buy it now in preference
Chris
AuburnWarrior
Tour Winner
Or the Callaway uPro.
I paid £150 for mine - a brilliant bit of kit.
I don't understand the GM Skycaddy love-in! Over £300 for the unit and then £30 a year? That doesn't represent value for money to me.
My downloads are free (basic mode) and I get a stats package.
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Auburn
not sure if you saw but Callaway have made the pro mode courses a lot cheaper, think its £40 for life (compared to £100 for a limited amount) so they are well worth having nowadays
not sure if you saw but Callaway have made the pro mode courses a lot cheaper, think its £40 for life (compared to £100 for a limited amount) so they are well worth having nowadays
AuburnWarrior
Tour Winner
I hadn't!
Even more reason to get one!
Thanks very much.
TonyN
Money List Winner
I'll back the Sonnocaddie shout. Vig has one and its pretty awsome. Big colour screen, tracks your round. Gives you all the yardages. Allows you to edit etc.
I have the free app on my Iphone.. and... as its the old 3G, I don't have the compass
I have the free app on my Iphone.. and... as its the old 3G, I don't have the compass
