Anyone have Skygolf Skycaddie?

[toddmc]

Anyone have Skygolf Skycaddie? Does it save strokes & help pace of play as advertised? Worth $350 + subscription cost?

[Maverick]

I would 1st find out if the course you play is offered, I heard not ALL courses are listed.

[SilverBullet]

I was joking with my sister about getting it for me for XMAS, and she said she did!!! I will let you know if it works as advertised. I am looking forward to trying it out.

[mont86]

What does it do?

[kingdom]

do a google for skycaddie

be interesting to see if it does work

[mont86]

It worked. GPS... I the one I found had a pic of R35's girlfriend Natilie Gulbis.

[Augster]

I would suggest a Laser Rangefinder over GPS at this point now that they are both legal. I just think the Laser would be more versatile.

Unless the course is going to upload GPS coordinates each day, or put ha beacon on the pin of some sort, the yardages you'll get will be to the center of the green, correct? A laser is always to the pin.

Also, will the GPS be able to tell you how much to clear that greenside bunker? If it will, then it'll be a bit more useful. With the laser, you just shoot the top of the bunker.

A cool gadget, but at that price you could get the best laser rangefinder known to man, and have money left over I bet.

Finally, the GPS will only help you on the course. I doubt each driving range has GPS coord's for the pins. With the laser, you just point and shoot and you know the exact distances you are practicing at ANY driving range (or field, or backyard) the world over.

Just my $.02

[SilverBullet]

From what I understand (I don't have mine yet), the skycaddie identifies up to 40 targets per hole, if your course is available. It will tell you how much to carry that greenside bunker, or creek, or how much to lay up to the creek. It will even tell you how much to the front and back of the green, no matter what angle you are approaching from.

We will see just how accurate this information is after I start using it. As for the range, you are right, it won't help you there.

But will your laser rangefinder give you your coordinates if you get lost in the trees looking for your wild tee shot?

[Pa Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by Augster

I would suggest a Laser Rangefinder over GPS at this point now that they are both legal. I just think the Laser would be more versatile.

Unless the course is going to upload GPS coordinates each day, or put ha beacon on the pin of some sort, the yardages you'll get will be to the center of the green, correct? A laser is always to the pin.

Also, will the GPS be able to tell you how much to clear that greenside bunker? If it will, then it'll be a bit more useful. With the laser, you just shoot the top of the bunker.

A cool gadget, but at that price you could get the best laser rangefinder known to man, and have money left over I bet.

Finally, the GPS will only help you on the course. I doubt each driving range has GPS coord's for the pins. With the laser, you just point and shoot and you know the exact distances you are practicing at ANY driving range (or field, or backyard) the world over.

Just my $.02

This is the exact route I went. I am quite familiar with GPS Technology, and have a garmin handheld that I use for everything. For golf though, the Range Finder seemed like the better option, and decided I could use it in practice as well as game. I don't use it a great deal on the course, but it is quickly accessable. Whereas with the GPS I would imagine that unless you have it on all the time, you probably wouldn't use it due to what I would imagine would be too long of an initialization time. By the time it would initialize, you would be long gone. Plus I don't want to rely on a company to provide the course information. The one downside I have found with a range finder as opposed to GPS is probably hitting at a seriously elevated pin, because you can use the flag, although it is alot quicker to use a person or the ground. On an elevated green, you are forced to use the flag.

[Rockford35]

Originally Posted by mont86

It worked. GPS... I the one I found had a pic of R35's girlfriend Natilie Gulbis.

If she wasn't braindead, i'd be all over that.

On second thought....

R35

[Pa Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by SilverBullet

But will your laser rangefinder give you your coordinates if you get lost in the trees looking for your wild tee shot?

If you get lost in the trees up here on my course, I doubt the Skycaddie will either, the trees are probably too dense. The way I hit into them, I thought about taking my GPS on the course

The range finder will tell me how far it is to the 19th hole, how bout the Skycaddie.

You'll have to let us know how it works out. I looked at them both for a long time. I think my final decision may have been that I couldn't justify buying a second GPS.

Just for future reference, should anyone run accross this thread, the Bushnell Yardage Pro Tour is the range finder I have and is pretty decent. They have a new "Pinseeker" model, that will actually calculate the distance variation with elevation, although it was a little out of my budget at the time. I read up on them and heard that some of the cheaper models were a little to finicky for golf.
http://www.bushnell.com/products/ran...cs/20-0002.cfm

[Pa Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by Rockford35

If she wasn't braindead, i'd be all over that.

On second thought....

R35

That and the fact that you may have "Big Ben" and the entire Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line hunting you down.