 "Great Purchase" | 2010-01-16 |
| - Reviewed By ronny from Arlington, TX |
| I compared all golf gps units based on price and features and benefits and the Sonocaddie was my choice. I am so happy with this purchase. I have only played one round, but it was great. I am a 9 handicap and was able to focus on my game and not waste a bunch of time looking for sprinkler heads that were not very evident. I am anxious to play a course with gps on the cart so I can compare but the distances that I hit were very consistent. Once I stood on a 200 yard marker and the sonocaddie said "202". That's very good. Though I play in a metropolitan area, most of the time I had 9-10 satellites showing on the unit and only 6 are needed for accurate measure. I love the scorecard feature, although I forgot to change it to pro prior to my round. I was able to change it after the round and was able to go back and add putts and fairways hit. I played better because I focused on my game instead of the guy I was playing (we tied at 83). I love the sonocaddie. There is only a one-time fee to load all US courses of $30 and there is a $50 free gift pack when you order before the end of January. Get on it man! Amazon has the best price. |
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| "Solid GPS" | 2009-12-01 |
| - Reviewed By J. Sundin from USA |
Owned product for one full golf season. Never had one issue with the unit. Averaged 8-12 satellites.
Pros. I custome picked my own points on the courses I played. I picked/chg all layup spots, bunkers, hazards, also the front, middle and back pins (default the yardages were off 10 - 20 yds). Neat color screen with backlight. If the course is not on the list to download, they will make it within a week. AND NO YEARLY FEES!!! With no fees unit will pay for itself in approx four/five years!
Cons. The buttons color is wearing off, also again the first time i used it yardages were not correct-likely cause of how they map.
Summary great if you take the time to custome mark your course, bad if you plan on playing course only once. |
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| "Sonocaddie V300 great support" | 2009-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By JRJ |
| 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 D. Adee |
| 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 Spacecowboy from Seattle, WA |
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 Ruloff from Johannesburg, South Africa |
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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