SkyCaddie SGX Golf GPS

by Skycaddie

Product Features

• Ready-To-Play Preloaded Courses*: Store up to 30,000 pre-loaded, ground-verified course map
• Durable, sleek design with a large 3" high resolution
• Dual Navigation: Golfer friendly, one-handed operation provides more precise positioning
• TruePoint GPS™ Precision Positioning Technology: High-performance GPS engine
• Omni-directional, high-performance GPS antenna locks quickly to more satellites
• Better accuracy without obscuring screen information with fingers and smudges
• Stays locked to optimize performance and accuracy in all terrains, even under tree foliage
• Store up to 50 full-featured courses through a SkyCaddie® Membership Plan
• Transflective TFT-LCD screen for brilliant images in the brightest sunlight

Product Description

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The SkyCaddie SGX seeks to achieve the ultimate in convenience and reliability in a golf GPS device. The SGX can store up to 30,000 pre-loaded, ground-verified course maps, making it ready-to-play out of the box. The unit boasts a durable, sleek design with a large three-inch, easy-to-read, transflective TFT-LCD screen that provides brilliant color images in even the brightest sunlight.

The SGX boasts a new design with brilliant color display on a three-inch HD LCD screen.

The SGX uses an innovative dual navigation option to provide golfer-friendly, one-handed operation and enhanced precision positioning without blocking critical screen information with fingers and smudges. With its new, intuitive user interface, the SkyCaddie SGX offers all of the standard features discerning golfers have come to expect from their GPS units, plus several proprietary stroke-saving essentials that have kept SkyCaddie the No. 1 rangefinder in golf for more than 10 years.

Key Features

• New Design With Brilliant Color Display: Durable, sleek design, with a large three-inch, high-resolution, transflective TFT-LCD screen for brilliant images in even the brightest sunlight.
• Dual Navigation:Golfer friendly, one-handed operation provides more precise positioning and better accuracy without obscuring screen information with fingers and smudges.
• TruePoint GPS Precision Positioning Technology: High-performance GPS engine for ultra-fast satellite acquisition and unmatched accuracy and reliability.
• Omni-Directional, High-Performance GPS Antenna: Locks quickly to more satellites and stays locked to optimize performance and accuracy in all terrains, even under tree foliage.
• High-Precision Ground-Verified Course Maps: Only SkyCaddie walks every course to make sure you have information you can trust, providing unlimited access to complete, reliable, ground-verified course maps.
• Preloaded Courses: Up to 30,000 course maps are preloaded and ready-to-play out of the box with Basic Green information. Plus store up to 50 full-featured courses through a SkyCaddie Membership Plan.
• Hazards, Carries, and Layups: SkyCaddie records thousands of points on each golf course with sub-meter precision. Distances to hazards, carries and layups are displayed automatically as you move down the course.
• Interactive HoleVue With Zoom: SkyCaddie is creating, at a rate of hundreds per month, the only high-precision graphics library of every golf hole, based on ground-corrected data. With HoleVue, you'll know the distance to any point on a hole in order to play that hole with the fewest strokes.
• IntelliGreen: SkyGolf's patented IntelliGreen technology provides you with an eagle's view of each green from anywhere on the golf course. The graphic rotates to provide front carry, back yardages, and green depth from your approach angle.
• IntelliGreen Pro (Beta): IntelliGreen Pro (Beta) is a dynamically enhanced version of IntelliGreen that adds the ability to display major tiers, contours, false fronts and mounds from your angle of approach to the green. With IntelliGreen Pro, you'll always know what's ahead, no matter where you are on the hole, even when you can't see the green.
• Measure Any Shot: Discover exactly how far you hit every club in your bag.
• Digital Scorecard: Keep track of your round with the SkyCaddie Digital Scorecard. Just enter your handicap into the preferences and pars for your handicap are automatically highlighted on the digital scorecard. Set up the MyPar screen and the SkyCaddie's Digital Scorecard adjusts to your handicap.
• ClubSG:Get better connected to your game, course, equipment, teacher, and other golfers. Sync and store your game data in your Personal Performance Locker, track key stats, learn about courses, find a PGA Professional near you, learn if your equipment is helping or hurting your game, and share your experiences with other golfers.

What's in the Box

• SkyCaddie SGX device
• Rechargeable battery
• LCD screen protectors
• USB cable
• AC power adapter
• Heavy-duty belt clip
• Quick Start Guide

Technical Specifications

• Measures 2.5 by 4.8 by 0.75 inches (W x H x D)
• 5.6-ounce weight with battery
• High-resolution, three-inch transflective TFT-LCD screen
• Rechargeable Lithium-ion Polymer battery offers up to 14 hours of continuous use

Membership Plans
SkyCaddie membership plans for the SG3.5 start at $19.95 a year, and offer:

• Unlimited access to reliable course information: SkyCaddie maintains the largest ground-verified course map library in the world, now approaching 30,000 courses. SkyCaddie walks the ground of every course, using survey-grade GPS equipment for precision mapping.
• Up-to-date course mapping: By working with local golf course professionals, SkyCaddie is notified when a course's layout has changed, and updates maps accordingly, whether it's a major renovation or just the removal of a critical tree target. In 2009 alone, SkyCaddie representatives surveyed and re-mapped over 1,000 courses a month.
• Powerful distance information presented in an understandable way: Proprietary features such as IntelliGreen, IntelliGreen Pro, and HoleVue show real-time distances to key areas on the hole from your angle of approach, so you can make better club selections and shots.
• Access to an evolving golf community: Sync your SkyCaddie to a new exclusive online community to upload scores and track key stats with charts and graphs to help visualize your game and connect with other golfers.
• Software updates for peak performance: By regularly syncing with the CaddieSync desktop software, your SkyCaddie will download software maintenance packages and the latest map updates for the courses you play.
• Personal online account: Manage and save the courses you play regularly in your Favorites list within CaddieSync. Your membership plan ensures your favorite courses are easily accessible when you're ready to play.
• Constant access: Access your personal golf information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, anywhere in the world where there is a computer with Internet access.

Membership enrollment information is included with your purchase.

Warranty
SkyCaddie products include a limited 30-day manufacturer's warranty against defects in materials and workmanship, and consumers who register their product within 30 days may purchase an optional upgrade to a 12-month limited warranty.

Product Description

SkyGolf SGX GPS Digital SkyCaddie... MSRP $349.95 - $50 Instant Rebate = $299.95! FREE AutoView Software Upgrade! Utilizing buttonlessand touchless technology, AutoView enables golfers to change between their most popular screens with just a simple turn of the wrist. AutoView Technology is controlled by the SGXs built-in accelerometer to provide three viewing positions one portrait position and two additional landscape positions. Combined with Auto-Course Select, Auto-Hole Advance and Auto-Zoom, AutoView technology eliminates the need to push buttons or touch points on an LCD Screen. By simply rotating the SGX device to the right, youll go from the brilliant Interactive HoleVue screen to IntelliGreen for a detailed view of the green. Turn the SGX to the left, and youll instantly see the New Digital Scorecard so you can enter your score. SGX customers may sync their SkyCaddie to receive the update. SkyCaddie SGX...Play Smarter, Play Better, Play Faster & Have More Fun! SkyCaddie SGX, More Than The NeXt Generation Rangefinder, boasts a durable, new sleek design with a large 3 easy-to-read, transflective LCD screen that provides brilliant color images even in the brightest sunlight. Powered by a long lasting rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, the SGX is ready for up to 14 hours of continuous play. The SGX uses an innovative, dual navigation option, to provide easy one-handed operation and precision positioning without blocking critical screen information with fingers and smudges. With its new, intuitive user interface, errors generated with large fingers and the difficulty of using gloves on touch screens are totally eliminated. SkyGolf SGX GPS Digital SkyCaddie features: *Ready-To-Play Preloaded Courses: For the ultimate in convenience and reliability, the SkyCaddie SGX can store up to 30,000 pre-loaded, ground-verified course maps making it ready-to-play out of the box with Basic Green information. Plus store up to 50 full-featured courses through a SkyCaddie Memb

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 7.3 x 2.4 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• 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: B0039ZTKKY
• Item model number: SGX
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,375 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
  • #12 in Sports & Outdoors > Golf > Accessories > Golf Course GPS Units

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great unit, steep learning curve, April 27, 2010

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Amateur curmudgeon "kaleun76" (Lakewood, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SkyCaddie SGX Golf GPS (Sports)

I waited for about a week from release to order the SGX skycaddie from Amazon. The negative review on synching with windows worried me. After reading the user comment I went ahead and ordered the unit figuring that, if it didn't work I could always return it to Amazon.
I had no problems synching it, and it downloaded the courses I selected without any problems. It is very important to note that Quick Vue does not work with SGX, only Hole Vue does. I didn't realize this and wondered why he courses I play did not show the hole view. It turns out only two of them were listed as having Hole Vue. If this is important you need to check on the skygolf website to make sure that your courses are mapped for Hole Vue. I believe this will get resolved soon as they get their mapping up to date.
On the course, I found the ranges accurate which are what this rangefinder is really about and is the reason I did not get any of the satellite mapped rangefinders.
The controls consist of three small keys, which might be a little too small for people with big fingers and also have a tad of a learning curve to get to use them properly. There is a button/joystick to navigate the cursor around. It does double duty as selection button when you press on it; this may cause problems for some but there is a workaround in the settings menu, where you can disable the select function from the joystick and just use the right key for that.
Two additional small buttons on either side of the joystick serve to take you out of golf menus and into your scorecard.
There are two larger buttons at the bottom corners:
The left one (with a ball logo) is used to mark your ball position to use the stroke distance measurement. You hit the button where you hit the ball from and when you get to the ball the display shows (in numbers that are too small and easy to miss) the distance to the spot you hit from. (Note that the manual is wrong and you should not hit the ball button again.)
The right one with a flag takes you to the green view.
You have a choice to have your unit keep your score for you. It will also track number of fairways hit and how you miss them, as well as number of putts per hole. It will keep 10 scorecards in memory and synch them to your account in SkyGolf, which is rather neat.
The biggest negative for me is the learning curve. It takes a while to learn all the features and how to use them.
All in all, I like the unit and recommend it. I may edit this after I have a chance to play with it some more.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars sync a problem but worth it, April 19, 2010

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T. Kelso (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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I recently purchased the SGX and like most people had a problem trying to register the product. When I tried to sync on my computer with Windows 7 and 64 bit, I never did get it to sync, so I took it to office and was able to work on my XP machine. The have a temporary fix for Windows 7, but real fix will come shortly. As far as use and ease of use, this is the best GPS I have had and I have had a previous sky caddie and most recently a upro. What I like best is the clearity of the screen and how fast it reads the yardage. As with any product brand new on the market, there are normally a few bugs, but this product is worth the hassle. I would have given it 5 stars if it did not have the sync problems.

53 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it yet, April 16, 2010

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Eddie Haskell (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SkyCaddie SGX Golf GPS (Sports)

The new SkyCaddie SGX started shipping the first week of April 2010 and I received mine directly from the company yesterday. It was released without a proper driver for Windows applications being available and as a result you are currently unable to sync the unit with the Sky Golf website. I found a work around process for Windows to accept the existing driver (F8 at start-up) by using a Google search, but it still didn't solve the sync issue. The SkyCaddie customer service organization is slammed with complaints and I have been unable to talk to anyone even after being on hold for the better part of an hour. They give you an alternative of sending them an email with your questions however that process is also not currently functioning. Much to no one's surprise, they were able however to process my credit card charge for the unit and membership fee.

My advice would be to wait to buy until they have resolved their software issues and you can get some feedback on how well the SGX units function, as I should have done. I find it extremely short-sighted that they started shipping the units before they were ready to support them. Maybe that's why they elected to give you the first 30 days "limited use" without a membership fee.