Golfwits Pro 2.0

by Golfwits

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005A1PT
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 14, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,836 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #73 in Software > Games > PC Games > Sports > Golf
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Anyone who has an interest in his or her golf game besides, "Did I hit it straight this time?" will find some use in Golfwits Pro. This useful little program aims to help you document every drive, chip, pitch, and putt so that you can improve your game. We don't think that's too lofty a goal.

You can use Golfwits solely on your desktop PC, and you can also sync it up with your Pocket PC (Windows CE) handheld device so you can take Golfwits with you while you're on the course. It also comes with a free Palm Organizer version that you can download from the Golfwits Web site. We chose to do the install for Palm Organizers and sync Golfwits up with our Handspring Visor Deluxe. There are notes about this all over the Golfwits Web site, but just in case you miss them, be sure to do a HotSync with your handheld twice, so that it picks up both the program and the maps.

Which leads us to the maps. They are really the strength of the Golfwits program. From the Golfwits Web site, you can access thousands of course maps all over the country (as well as a few other countries including Canada). A quick search for courses in the Seattle area turned up nearly every course we were familiar with--only one of our favorites was missing. However, the Golfwits folks seem open to suggestions, so if you request a map of your favorite course, they will most likely produce it.

Mastering Golfwits--especially on your handheld--will take some time. We had to sit down with it for a while before we got the hang of how to access statistics and record our ball position and ball path on the course, so we advise that you work with it and the online manual a bit before you hit the fairways. (Not to mention, it took us a while to figure out how to make the maps we downloaded sync up with our Visor--again, read the manual carefully.) But when on the course, once you're done recording ball position and club used, Golfwits calculates everything else for you: remaining distance to the hole, score, and overall game statistics.

You can also input data into Golfwits on your desktop, but this seems like a secondary function. The biggest benefit of the desktop version seems to be checking statistics once you've completed a round on the course, and using that information to improve your game. But if you're using Golfwits without a PDA, you can print out a Pro Book of your selected course from the Golfwits interface, take this scorecard with you, and then come back and input the game manually into Golfwits. Another function that's pretty impressive is the option to e-mail your game to friends--though we only recommend this function if you actually played well.

You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a utility that goes as in depth into your game as Golfwits. In fact, we can't think of any program that does quite what Golfwits does, making it an obvious choice for anyone who cares this deeply about the game of golf. --Ara Jane Olufson

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not good for tracking multi-player rounds, June 26, 2001

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Dale G. Highfill "dghighfill" (Jefferson City, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golfwits Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

If your wanting to track your individual score, then this application is the one; however, if you want to keep multiple players then buy some other application. You have to enter each stroke into this application as opposed to just entering the number of strokes for the hole. Since I have received the application, I have requested two courses that were not downloadable on the web site. It has been over three weeks, and they still haven't published the courses. I did play one course that I could download and the user interface was really good. I really like the distance from the hole, and tracking my shots; however, their are times where I wouldn't like to input all this information for each hole and if I want to keep a whole round of golf, you have to enter every stroke you hit. If you play par or Birdie Golf then that's great, but if your a Par/Bogie/+ player, it kind of gets annoying. If you want a scorecard for other players, this application will keep you busy all through the round entering everyones shots, and not allow for much time to enjoy the game. Plus you usually don't want to track other players stats, just yours, but I would like a calculated scorecard for all players. I wished I would have purchased the other application I reviewed. If they had a demo version of the application, I wouldn't have purchased this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Golfwits - Maps no longer free, August 22, 2003

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John F. Macek (Poughkeepsie, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golfwits Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

Buyer beware. I purchased this last month and was having fun with it until the folks at Mapwits began charging for course downloads. Reviews I read here indicate that over 4000 course maps are available for free -- not true. I emailed them and received some gobbedlygook about focus group recommendations to charge, etc. Seems like their whole pricing structure is changing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE--COURSE MAPS NOT INCLUDED----VERY DECEITFUL, August 16, 2003

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George Scott (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golfwits Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

...The Golfwits website was recently changed. I purchased July 24, 2003 and the website then lead you to believe if you purchase the PRO package you had unlimited access to course map downloads. Well now you don't. You only get three! If your home course is like mine it has three nine hole courses which are the equivalent of three 18 hole courses. Well I play more golf and at more couses than just my home couorse. And I believe anyone who is looking for this type of software probably does too. So if you don't mind the additional $$ money for the course maps that this software will not work without then go ahead and purchase. It works great! ...