Skycaddie SGX Review

January 12th, 2011 by articles

The Skycaddie SGX is the ultimate in golf gps units. It comes with 30,000 preloaded courses and basic green information and is ready to play out of the box. The SkyGolf Skycaddie SGX boasts many new and exciting features, resulting in this amazing device being absolutely essential to golfers that want to save strokes and lower their handicap.

The Skycaddie has been designed to be very user friendly and with that in mind it can be operated with one hand due to the Dual Navigation system which improves accuracy and positioning. 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.

The styling of the Skycaddie SGX is very sleek aswell as being durable, with a high resolution 3-inch TFT LCD screen that is transreflective, which enusres great images even in brilliant sunshine. 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! To further increase accuracy, the disprepancies between satellite images and reality or resolved by every course being walked by Skycaddie.

The Skycaddie’s Interactive HoleVue with Zoom, coupled with the Intelligreen and Intelligreen Pro technolgy provide the most up to date, accurate and detailled hole and green mapping information of any golf gps unit. Skycaddie are continually updating their libraries with high-precision graphics versions of every hole. These improved versions are zoomable to allow the user to dial in on any particular section on a hole and accurately plot their next shot. Aswell as providing pin yardages, the Skycaddie SGX also shows distances to bunkers and other hazards.This can only assist golfers to play unfamiliar courses and also lower their scores. Following on from the Intelligreen Technology, the Pro version has taken this indispensible system to new heights. 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. Couple the Digital scorecard with the ClubSG system, to store your game information and statisitcs in your Personal Performance Locker, for the ultimate game analysis software on the market.