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Skycaddie SGX Review

January 13, 2011 by  
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The Skycaddie SGX is the ultimate in golf gps units. It comes ready to play out of the box with 30,000 preloaded courses and basic green information. If you want to lower your score and improve your handicap, then the many new and exciting features of the SkyGolf Skycaddie SGX make this the essential Golf GPS unit.

With the Dual Navigation System, the Skycaddie is very user friendly, it allows the operater to use one hand. Together with this the AuotView “buttonless” and “touchless” technology allows the player to switch from one screen to another which by turning the device from horizontal to vertical positions, not unlike how the Iphone operates.

Aswell as the Skycaddie SGX being stylishly sleek and durable, it has a 3-inch TFT LCD, transreflective screen that ensures crisp, bright images even in the brightest of sunlight. GPS Systems are of no use if they cannot maintain links to satellites. SkyGolf have introduced the TruePoint GPS Precision Positioning Technolgy, this combined with the Omni-Directional High Performance GPS ANtenna, ensures the Skycaddie SGX locks onto satellites ultra fast and stays locked on. This provides superior accuracy and performance on all terrains and even under tree cover! Skycaddie ensure every course is walked to further increase accuracy by eliminating variances between satellite images and reality.

To provide the most accurate and detailled hole and green information of any golf gps unit, the Skycaddie SGX combines the Interactive HoleVue with Zoom and the Intelligreen Pro technology. Skycaddie are continually updating their libraries with high-precision graphics versions of every hole. To dial in on any specific place on a hole and accuratley plot their next these improved versions allow the user to zoom in. Not only does the Skycaddie SGX deliver yardages to the pin but it will also show the distance to bunkers and other hazards.This can only help players manage the course and shave more shots off their score. The patented Intelligreen technology has proved to be indispensible arounds the greens and the Pro version goes a step or two further. The Intelligreen Pro system automatically rotates the image of the green depending on the players angle of approach and provides all the relevant distances, including major green contours, false fronts and any specified point on the green.

To track and analyse your performance of every round, not only will the Skycaddie’s Digital Scorecard note your strokes but it will provide key statistics such as GIR, fairways hit and total putts. The Digital scorecard coupled with the ClubSG system provide the ultimate analysis software for your game statistics.


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SkyCaddie SGX …Course Management 101!

April 23, 2010 by  
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The much anticipated SkyCaddie SGX is finally here much to the chagrin of their competition! The SkyCaddie SGX is the next generation of rangefinders, with advanced features, accuracy, and reliability second-to-none. Released March 15, 2010, it is one of the most anticipated golfing-specific GPS units to date. According to its maker, Skygolf, the SkyCaddie SGX is “a platform that can extend the game beyond the 18th green”. The unit comes standard with a large 3″ easy-to-read transflective LCD screen that provides brilliant color images even in the brightest sunlight.

The SkyCaddie SGX sports an innovative, dual navigation option to provide easy one-handed functionality and precision positioning without blocking critical information with fat fingers and smudges.Often in their attempt to make these devices as portable as possible, usability is sacrificed because of the reduction in size.It often seems as though mobile units, especially GPS units, are designed for munchkins with tiny fingers.This isn’t a problem with the SkyCaddie, however, as it can be used with large (and even gloved) fingers.

According to SkyGolf CEO Richard Edmonson, the goal of the Skycaddie SGX Golf GPS is to “help golfers play smarter, play better, play faster, and have more fun.” Well, the SkyCaddie SGX most unquestionably lives up to these goals. Its high-performance GPS engine includes new proprietary TruePoint Precision Positioning Technology providing rapid, precise, and dependable satellite acquisition.The SGX sports a new high-performance multi-directional GPS antenna that quickly and easily locks onto satellites. The SkyCaddie SGX locks-on and stays locked to optimize performance and accuracy in all terrains, even under trees.

SkyCaddie owners receive unrestricted access to complete ground-verified course maps via annual memberships.The SkyCaddie offers over 30,000 pre-loaded, ground-verified maps making it “ready to play” right out of the box with basic green information.The SGX can storeup to 50 full-featured courses at one time with room to grow. The new SkyCaddie SGX also includes their patented HoleVue Technology, with zoom capability. It’s a one-of-a-kind technological break-through with ground-verified course maps in high resolution full color-detail.

With HoleVue Technology golfers are provided with the distance to any point on the hole in play allowing them to play the hole either aggressively or cautiously.The HoleVue Zoom feature gives players up-close views of landing areas, allowing him or her to manage the next shot.HoleVue graphics can be trusted due to the immense time and effort SkyGolf has put into ground-verifying all of its collected map data.

IntelliGreen Technology is also included in the new SGX. This patented technology rotates the green automatically to give the golfer the actual shape of the green from whatever angle they are approaching it from.IntelliGreen provides all yardages needed to hit more greens and avoid lengthy putts.An optional IntelliGreen Pro feature provides golfers with the added ability to obtain distances to major green contours, false fronts, and any other point on the green.According to SkyGolf, IntelliGreen Pro includes front, center, and back distances from any angle of attack, all of which cannot be derived from satellite imagery used in competing products.

With the SkyCaddie SGX, you can join Club SG a new fast growing online community where golfers can automatically upload their scores and stats for in-depth game tracking and analysis.This new, innovative golf portal allows SGX owners to synchronize and accumulate their game data in an online personal performance locker and, in-turn, track key statistics, learn about courses, find a golf teacher, learn if their equipment is helping or hurting their game, and connect with other players.

Yes the SkyCaddie SGX is one impressive GPS, but there’s more, introducing SmartClub Technology!With SmartClub Technology, the SGX can communicate via wireless link to each club in a golfer’s bag.Whenever you remove a club from your bag a link is established between your SGX and the club via a tiny SmartClub tag that is attached to butt end of the grip.This innovative new feature can alter golfers who mistakenly forget their clubs at the last hole.It helps keep statistics on which clubs were used, how often one’s clubs are used, the geo-location and distance of each shot, round data, and personal performance data in a completely automated fashion.These post-game analytics can easily be shared with friends, instructors, and golf fitters alike.

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