Customer Reviews

Golfwits Pro 2.0

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

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.

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.

...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! ...

This program is "THE" program for making your own pro-book for any course. ( each hole has it's own page, not just a course map)
If it's not in their data base, make your own.
If the one they have isn't detailed enough, fix it.
Print it out with yardage markers, and your local muni. is as playable as the country club.

This product has potential, but not even the best of breed is worth buying if the support is not there. And that is certainly the case with this company. During my evaluation, I had to send my first email three times, and my second email just never got a reply. Forget it! The product also lacks basic data capture on courses and players too.
If you want the absolute best product for collecting and analysing golfing statistics, and you really don't need the PDA/graphics, then try GStatPro from MagaDraw - excellent design, extremely comprehensive and intuitive, and a mere $25

Purchased the software for 129..0 full blown price. The manual is weak, had to spend a lot of time just expermenting, trying to get the software to do what the manual said it should do.

You cannot edit a shot you have to delete then add new...that is an edit.

When you want to set the type of shot: hook, draw, straight, fade, slice. Be careful easy to make wrong selection. Cannot really see how this is going to work on the course.

Could not get the most important part of Mapwits to work

Have spent the last three days E Mailing and calling. Have left a message on every name in company directory, no replies on either E Mail or phone

Try to find the phone # on their web site. Isn't one. Try to find a phone # in directory assistance isn't one.

I finally found one after hours of a google search. 1-360-354-8401. good luck on getting someone to reply

Would not reccommend this software to anyone. Has potential technically but none business wise.

Golfwits is an all around fantastic golf score and statistic tracking system. It's got one of the best PDA interfaces I've seen - a very intelligent use of such a small space. They coin (or at least used to coin) it MIMO: Minimal Input, Maximum Output. I think it's an accurate description because you get tons of stats back from just a few simple touches on the screen.

You start with a scaled-down graphical image of each hole for the golf course (more on this later). To start a round you enter some minimal player info: name, tee, 150 yard club (for default club suggestions), HCP, and whether you want Golfwits to track clubs. You can enter just the name and the tee box you are using if the rest is not important to you, but I suggest tracking clubs and picking your 150 yard club as well because the stats you get back are more detailed. Up to you.

Then, for each shot you simply touch the screen where your ball landed. You can move it around until you get the exact position - a box with yard left to the center of the green will appear as you touch/move around to assist finding the exact location. Once you remove the pen from the screen, you touch the pen in the middle of the box for a straight shot, or move it to the sides to indicate a hook, draw, fade or slice. An image of the ball flight path appears as you do this. When you release for the appropriate ball flight (hopefully straight :-), a box/grid will appear with the clubs listed. Select the appropriate club and you are done with the shot. If you miss hit the ball, there is a check box on the clubs screen to accommodate this - again helps with adding value to your stats. At first this sounds like alot of entry for one shot, but the way they've done designed it and once you're accustomed, it's really not. If you decide against tracking clubs, you simply don't get the box/grid. This speeds up entry, but reduces the value of your statistics. Not worth it in my opinion.

When you get to the green, Golfwits automatically switch to putts mode. This part is really neat in my opinion. You select the distance of your first putt (unless you don't care about tracking this stat, you don't HAVE to do this, but again, I recommend for the value of the statistics it provides). Then you just click on grid - LL, Long, LR, Left, Hole, Right, SL, Short or SR. You just click what happened for each putt and your done. There is an option for Sand Save if the putt comes after being in the sand. Golfwits is smart enough to know that you came out of the sand and will automatically check it unless you put more than one putt in. You can uncheck it if you don't want to track that stat, but why would you do that?

There's so much more to tell, but that's the basics of entering your scores. I'll leave the user guide to fill you in on the rest.

Read my other reviews on "Courses and Mapwits" and "Golfwits vs. Intelligolf".

With my PDA I can download the actual golf course I am playing. Golfwits keeps my stats by simply tapping the screen. If I want to know how far it is to a bunker or water hazard I just tap the "Distance" mode and Golfwits instantly tells me the yardage. Is that great, or what?

I was most interested in the Mapwits program so I could create courses that I play. It took a little bit of learning but it the program works great. I was able to create the course and the with Golfwits print yardage books. It is fun to use and a real tool as I play the game.

There is no way to download courses for this product now, I paid for multiple course downloads and now the site is defunct and I only got half the course I paid for.