Does the Optishot accurately measure data for Drivers &amp; Woods ? I read an online review by a golf website which said that Optishot wouldn't read them
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Optishot is not reliably accurate with any club and is especially poor at drivers and woods. However, you can improve your odds of getting a pretty good reading by adding reflective tape to the bottom of your clubs. Go to Youtube.com and search for "optishot taping your woods and irons" for a demonstration.
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Hello, The product doesn't aim at tracking putt distance but more number of putts. It will give you excellent statistics on driving distance irons and woods performance, fairway accuracy greens in regulation, scrambling, sand saves, and number of putts which is what matters more than recording that you sunk a 30-footer. It's a very good recording device and app to review rounds is quite well managed.
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When you turn on the unit and press "play Golf" it finds any courses they have mapped nearby. So if the skycaddie web site lists it as a course - the Gimme will find it and display it. The course you ask about is on their list - so it will be displayed. You never actually load or preload a course yourself.
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Here is a great link that should answer your question:http://www.golfgps1.com/Garmin-Approach-S2-vs-S3-Difference-Between-Review.html
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It works off of doppler Radar, so last year I used it in my garage hitting into a net to get my club distances down. It was great!!! I have a laminated note strip on my bag with all the clubs I have, and they're distances! I got my distances from the ES12 in the garage, and I verified them at the range... It's great! Just take out all your Bad Shots, and your top one to get a VALID DISTANCE for each club!
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Your watch should show you any nearby course that has been measured...name change may have had to be recorded somewhere...like USGA....mine shows any course near me with no action from me. I travel. Good luck.
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Frankly. I like the distance measurement results so much, that I lost any interst in loading the online coarse info. The pinseeker is really accurate and I don't want to take the risks of GPS errors. There is a way to download the info and all I have to do is use the UBS cable which I have. I got my pinseeker as a rebuilt unit. My first battery charge has lasted 3 months w/o recharging. I golf on average, 4 days per week.
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You go to the course and it recognizes it. Hell, it worked for me in friggin London, England. Just buy it and see for yourself. OK, guess I'm an official Amazon/GolfBuddy tool. �
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Sometimes mine jumps to a different hole, sometimes several holes away. It is accurate, however, from anyplace on the course.
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The watch is preloaded with almost every course in the US. I don't think you should have to upload courses. I only had one course I had to update because they redid the layout of the back nine. I went to Igolf and I got an error message but played with the connection and got it to work.
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No, to my knowledge it does not give distance to hazards. Nor does it give layout of each hole, but it does give distance to front, middle and back of green for every shot, to all courses I've played so far.
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sorry, i don't have a clue. the card's website will have the answer and maybe try tiger direct information.
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It has its own proprietary it seems. POLNAV. It can't pronounce some road names which doesn't bother me. It seems accurate and hasn't needed updating yet!
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Thanks N. Search YouTube for "Wonderland Garmin 405" that is what really peaked my interest.Ok, I was able to find the watch at City Sports. I love it and it finds satellites in about 30 seconds or so.I connected it via Garmin Connect fairly easily (using my Dell D620 Laptop and Windows XP), but I can't find how I can export the GPX files anywhere?
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The Bushnell Tour V2 that I bought was the slope edition. It really makes club selection easier. Still have to calc for the wind speed and direction though, but I can't see anything that can be developed that will help a golfer in club selection by compensating for the wind when calcing distance. I have three of these in different locations so I'm not hauling one around on the plane.
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quite simple, the free ones depend on individuals to update and that can be a mixed bag for reliability. Skycaddie allows users to map and update but they also send out specialists to walk the entire courses and the greens are to within an inch in error margins. Phone based GPS apps for golf are ok but they destroy the battery life on the phone. I have used several apps on different platforms and have never been able to complete a round with any battery life left except with my old blackberry using bbgpsgolf. The flaw with that app is it was user updated only. The upside is it was user updated only so all the courses and the app were free. quite simple, the free ones depend on individuals to update and that can be a mixed bag for reliability. Skycaddie allows users to map and update but they also send out specialists to walk the entire courses and the greens are to within an inch in error margins. Phone based GPS apps for golf are ok but they destroy the battery life on the phone. I have used several apps on different platforms and have never been able to complete a round with any battery life left except with my old blackberry using bbgpsgolf. The flaw with that app is it was user updated only. The upside is it was user... » Read More quite simple, the free ones depend on individuals to update and that can be a mixed bag for reliability. Skycaddie allows users to map and update but they also send out specialists to walk the entire courses and the greens are to within an inch in error margins. Phone based GPS apps for golf are ok but they destroy the battery life on the phone. I have used several apps on different platforms and have never been able to complete a round with any battery life left except with my old blackberry using bbgpsgolf. The flaw with that app is it was user updated only. The upside is it was user updated only so all the courses and the app were free. « Show Less
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there is a full course listing on the website which is admittedly frustrating to navigate and the weakest piece of the puzzle. Fortunately you don't need it much. There are over 40,000 courses loaded so the odds are very high that yours is on there. I only have 1 that is not available and it's a really small par 3 $8 course so it doesn't matter. There are a couple more in the middle of nowhere that don't have pro mode but I still have front middle back yardages to the green and most hazards are marked in basic so it's not the end of the world.