 "Sonocaddie V300 great support" | 2009-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2Q0OA8YES278F |
| Very accurate with good color graphics. Great customer support! Contacted Customer Service, since my home course was not available for download, and within two weeks it was completed and available for use. |
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 "Happy Camper!" | 2009-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1LHCPQSCXN9LF |
| The Sonocaddie V300 has a lot of very nice features as well as a good warranty and no annual cost for a course downloading membership. Locks on quickly. Love the capability of adding (or correcting) checkpoints on the mapped courses. Only negative is that the device does not advance automatically to the next hole as you move around the course. Like this unit much better than my previous golf gps, which failed during the first 6 months of ownership. |
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| "Nice hefty, quality well built dedicated Golf GPS" | 2009-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2V1ARL8SRGGMS |
I've own the Sonocaddie now for 9 months and am a happy owner of this GPS device. It comes with everything you need to manage it except for a golf course. You can use it to measure the distance from your house to the stop sign at the end of your street without a golf course if you want. This unit however takes a little bit to get use to. Its such a pretty unit and so well built that you don't mind putting in the time to figure it out. You will like all of the features of this unit and it would help if Sonocaddie were to simulate its use on the golf course in the instruction booklet so that it could show off what it can do and give you an idea of how to manage this device with your round of golf.
First off, its battery life is excellent. The battery can last at least 3 full rounds of golf.
2nd, the screen is bright and easy to see even in the sunlight
3rd, membership for the V300 is $30 and that's it. you have access to every golf course in the world, posting your score and mapping requests and any updates.
4th, scorecard feature keeps track of your stats, greens in regulation etc.
5th, has the ability to measure your distance on the golf course or anywhere
6th, accuracy of distance is on par with all other GPS devices plus or minus 5 yards
7th, comes with very, very, very convenient belt clip
8th, at this point in time the support is excellent the best that there is among all of the GPS devices
9th, logging on to their site and updating, posting your scores or requesting a course to be mapped is very easy to do
10th,you can tell by the way its built that Snocaddie engineers were concerned about its ability to withstand wet conditions as well as being able to see the screen in bright sunlight.
11th, it fits in my hand perfectly and it will fit in yours nicely also
12th, it looks great, classy and stylish with a beautiful screen and fully featured
13th, it has given me confidence and am more relaxed on shots that I didn't think I had because its my caddie
14th, my golf partners are always asking me for their distances and they make really good shots too! Not thrilled with that, they ought to get their own caddie.
Quirks and things you have to get use to
1st, the buttons are harder to press, something I got use to quickly
2nd, managing its use on the golf course took some getting use to e.g. You turn it on, that can take 30 seconds to 5 minutes for it to access the satellites to get started. Then selection of the golf course. Stand on the tee and snocaddies' screen gives you the distances and a look of the layout of the fairway, press right upper button to mark your position and hit your ball. Hit the mark button again when you get to your ball to find out how far you hit your ball and mark start again for next shot. The Snocaddie will show the icon of an orange person positioned somewhere on your first hole along with the distance for your next shot to the green with layout of hazards and the green. Pressing the lower left button gives you an overall view of the green and distances to front middle and back. Hit your ball and mark again when you get to your ball. After you make your putt, press upper left button for scoring. Press right button and enter score, putts, sand y or n, fairway y or n. Right button to move to the next hole for scoring. Press left lower button to move to 2nd hole and fairway view with sand traps and hazards with appropriate distances. And repeat for remaining holes. Snocaddie does not explain the above scenario to you so you must come up with the above procedure or come up with your own. Because this device does so much you have to be familiar with the buttons and what they do.
3rd, in order to see the next fairway you must either put in your score or manually move it to the next hole.
4th, it doesn't work with a Mac, something I hope they are working on
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| "Very usefull" | 2009-09-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1WS9XKWA3CRI8 |
I have found the Sonocaddie, very usefull.
Getting started was pretty simple and downloading my regular courses only took a few minutes.
Meterage/yardage is pretty accurate between 1-3m difference from local markers. I don't think you will get much better than that!
Some of the more off the beaten track courses, that I have played in South Africa, are not mapped properly, but as I do not play them often enough I do not feel that this is a great disadvantage.
On the whole I am very satisfied with my purchase I think this it is a great product!
RA Franke
South Africa |
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| "GREAT UNIT AFTER ADDING REFRENCE POINTS" | 2009-09-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: AJ5KZ50HQ9NSV |
| This is the 1st gps which I have used. My V300 purchase was based on a no brainer closeout price of $ 115 at a national sporting goods chain. I had narrowed my choice to the golf guru and sonocaddie brand. There are a few reports in forums of programing hangups with the newest color version from golfguru. The skycaddie brand has the handy intelligreen feature for pin position and comes with very accurate detailed downloadable yardages. Skycaddie has people walk the courses to map them. If you don't mind paying an annuall fee every year for the use of your gps then take a serious look at the skycaddie. I eliminated skycaddie and all other brands from consideration, that have annuall fees. The sonocaddie has a lifetime fee of $30 to download as many U.S.A. couses as you want. The sonocaddie has a better waerproof claim than most brands. A battery charge lasts four rounds. The color couse display on the v300 is very easy to look at. My home course wasn't mapped at the time of purchase. I mailed a scorecard and a google earth overhead view of my course with the tee and green numbers written on it to sonocaddie. Two weeks later the basic couse yardages were up on their site. I easily added additional refrence points while playing a round. I used a refrence point on many holes to the front corners or sides of greens which serves the same basic purpose as the skycaddie intelligreen feature. All but one hole was within a yard or so of accuracy as compared with the couses laser shot yardages. A GPS is very helpful to recover from a poor shot which leaves you to far away from a couse yardage marker. It is much faster to use a GPS than yardage books or pacing off yardages from couse markers. |
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| "Very good Golf GPS!" | 2009-09-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3JLXXT0LVSOWP |
| My husband is very happy with this GPS. We decided on this model because it did not require a yearly fee - just a one time membership fee. The graphics are excellent. Many of my husband's favorite courses were not loaded but the company gets them loaded a few weeks after we scan & email a score card. The battery life is very good too. Thumbs up on this product - we're very happy with it! |
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