UNCRoss

I get adds all the time on Facebook but never looked at them or clicked on them. I know I’ve seen videos on YouTube about the grips being knock offs

Alright, both watches charged up, phones charged up and myself, very well also charged up. Leaving work a few hours earlier to get a round in today. Will keep you guys posted. I have selected manual putting on the watch, will let you all know how it went.  🏌🏽‍♂️

I have some Sticky issues every once in a while it misses a shot or defaults to a weird position that I didn’t hit a shot from. 

Thanks so much Irish. Will check it out on Friday and report back

I played Thursday and just checked the battery life on the watch and it’s at 40%. 
For myself the app itself drained my battery from full to red line on iPhone after about 4 hours when I played. 
Hope that helps  Rohan. 

My PW on approach shots has been poor through my rounds so far haha I am losing strokes. Need to figure that one out. Never thought I was bad with the PW, but the data so far says otherwise. Great to see the data piling in. Very useful. 

Thanks for letting me know @unccross, that's really decent taking in consideration you have played 27 holes. Will just give it a full charge again when its flat and before Friday

Hey @Leonvdwesthuizen, thanks for the kind words.
With a dedicated golf watch you get so much more data, with the V5 you will get your averages on all your clubs, you can then also check your shots gained stats and compare them to other handicaps. What I like about the Shot Scope dashboard is, they have a feature called MyStrategy, where you basically can do a virtual plan of how you will play the course, you can even simulate wind on it so that's going to be very interesting to play around with. I will make a post over the weekend or maybe latest on Monday of how the watch is preforming on the course. 

It’s like that with the H4 also. I’ve been told it’s gps accuracy. 

Edited the 27 holes from yesterday with the V5 watch.  The watch missed a few shots on both rounds, and seemed to have added a shot here and there, maybe from carrying a club in my left hand, not sure.  I do know it seemed to miss the second chip every time if I chunked one and walked up with the same club and hit my next shot.  Not sure if I should stop for a second or take some extra practice swings or what.  Putting is pretty good, seems to be a little better than the H4.  I still have to adjust some distances on putts. I try to step off my first putt and write that number down to use when editing.

I do like this score discrepancy warning when editing.  That is helpful on the holes that it misses a shot or 2 and I put the score in as different than the watch had counted.  
I've noticed that if i pick up my wedge after making a putt it goes to the next hole and I am unable to pin collect for some reason.  Maybe there is a way to get back to pin collect, if so I haven't figured it out yet.  Walking across the green seems to mess with the watch also.
Here are some statistics from the 2 rounds. 

The first 9 holes I had 2 birdies! First time every I have had 2 birdies in a round.

Played today at a course that I haven’t played for over two years, let’s just say I expected cows and sheep to be grazing in the meadows. I’ve never seen a course that has been so neglected in forever.
So home now and here are some new features I found on the Shot Scope App. 
First photo I’ve circled this to show where you touch to get even more data and info for your round. 
Once hit you’ll get to this page. Then simple as hit the tabs to look at data during your round, love the map one as you can hit each hole and it will show you each shot played, great info. 

Playing around on the Shot Scope dashboard, more specifically on the MyStrategy page. Must say, this is really cool, even better, it's free when you have a V5!
  
Click on the image to make it bigger. 
 
Strategy done, will see if I can follow it hahaha🤣

Although I'm not a tester, I do have the watch and have 3 rounds with it. So I'll give my experience on battery life.
After the first 2 rounds, I had less than 40% left when I got home after each round. I stopped the round when I got to my car in the parking lot, so it wasn't trying to get GPS or anything while I drove home. The rounds were in the normal 4.5 hr range, so not sure why it didn't last longer. After the most recent round (2 days ago), it had 53% left when I got home. So I'm not seeing the whole 2 rounds on a single charge thing personally. But that's just my experience. Take that for whatever it's worth.

Got my first round in with the new V5 watch.  I really like it so far, but there are some things that I am going to have to get use to.  There are some things that I do while playing, that I feel confuses the watch and produces errors that did not happen with the H4.  
On arrival to the course I cut the watch on, clicked on play and gps and tag, just like I have been doing with the H4 for a short time now.  I went to the club house, used the restroom, paid, loaded the cart and drove to the first tee.  My watch still said locating GPS.  I cut the watch off and back on and tried to start the round again. Still just stayed on the locating GPS screen.  I went ahead and Teed off and sometime between teeing off and my second shot it found the GPS satellites.  I've never had this issue with the H4.
 

 
The watch distance numbers were within 3 yards of the  yardages on the cart every time I compared the 2.  I really like the score on the screen and the scorecard feature.  I always enter my scores on GHIN app as I go but having it on the watch is really nice during the round.  This feature is not found on the H4. 
I played really well for me on this 9 hole round.  I had 2 birdies, I'd only had 1 all year so far.  Had a couple blow up holes and ended up with a 44.  I was curious what it looked like with I uploaded the round and how many shots that it missed.

Ended up showing a 39 on the back so it missed 4 shots, but 1 or 2 maybe penalties that I didn't add on the watch during play.  There were a few holes that after putting, I went to hit the pin collect and it was already on the next hole.  I would have to go back in and change the hole and enter the score.  
I started thinking about a couple things that seem to confuse or mess up the system.  One is carrying my wedges and putter around in the hand that my watch is on around the greens.  I also have a habit of laying my wedge behind me when I putt and then pick it up and carry it to my next putt and do the same thing.  I noticed my watch tagged as LW one time while I was on the green.  The other thing that seems to confuse it is walking across the green for a shot off the green.  Not sure until I edit my 2 rounds from today here in a little while but it seemed to.  Lets edit, and I'll repost on that later tonight or tomorrow
 

Date 05/20/2024 Course Name TPC Toronto - Heathlands course Gross Score 76 Course Handicap 5 Gross Strokes over/under par 5 Net Score to Par 0 Net Score 71 Net Birdies or better Longest Drive Course rating 68.8, slope 127, par 71
Longest drive 244 yds, no birdies, 32 putt round

Date 05/21/2024 Course Name Key West Golf Club Gross Score 79 Course Handicap 10 Gross Strokes over/under par 9 Net Score to Par -1 Net Score 69 Net Birdies or better 0 Longest Drive 0 Gold tees:  rating 67.7, slope 124
My consistent play continued today even with less than stellar conditions.  We're one week into our first aeration and course received five inches of rain yesterday (meaning cart path only, standing water and water filled traps).  Given all that, I was extremely happy with breaking 80 with a 79.

I hit all but one fairway today.  The best thing was that when I missed (by about three feet), it was on the correct side of the dog leg left which gave me a clear shot to the green.  If I was going to miss, I missed in the right position.  The 17% greens in regulation could have been twice that, as I missed three by a matter of a few feet.  
The six up and down pars was a good day.  What makes me a little disappointed was the 30 putts.  That's about five or six more than my average.  I was constantly short given the greens now have exposed aeration holes and have not been mowed for a week.  About halfway through the round I finally figured out that I had to have a more upward putter swing to put more top spin and keep the ball on top of the grass/sand.  After that, I had better distance control.  However, I was still victimized by the exposed aeration holes.  I know it's a short-term issue that will get better in a few weeks (which is just in time for aeration session two)!

Date 05/20/2024 Course Name Franklin Country Club Gross Score 84 Course Handicap 8 Gross Strokes over/under par 13 Net Score to Par 5 Net Score 76 Net Birdies or better 0 Longest Drive 0 Always can play better but what a fun round. The score was not indicative of how I felt I played.



Had a nice 328 yarder, to bad i only par’d from 100 out
One of my favorite courses around and has 4 of my top 5 favorite par 3’s around, this one is a 180 carry over water, beautiful hole
this is the second shot coming into a the first par 5, gorgeous hole

Date 05/20/2024 Course Name Blue Ridge Country Club Gross Score 95 Course Handicap 22 Gross Strokes over/under par 25 Net Score to Par 3 Net Score 73 Net Birdies or better 0 Longest Drive 0 White tees 69.6/134 par 70
 
43 putts with a chip in, might be a record high on putts, it was a struggle!

I haven’t wore it as an everyday watch, just on the course. I walked 27 holes Saturday and it had over 50% battery left when I plugged it in when I got home. 

Played a round in the pouring rain on Saturday.  I wore a raincoat and it was covering the watch a lot of the time unless I was checking yardages.  I noticed a couple of times while checking the watch for distances that there wasn’t a club tagged. I assumed it would just automatically tag through the jacket.  It was sometimes but missed a lot of shots. After noticing it, I tightened the cuff strap on my sleeve so that the watch was exposed. 
 
I ended up having a pretty good round, shot 89 which is the best I’ve shot since starting back playing a few months ago.  When I got the round download and ready to edit, my watch missed 14 shots. 10 around the time I was wearing the raincoat over the watch, 1 penalty stroke not entered and the others were chunked chips or picking my wedge up in my hand before doing the pin collection. 
 

 
Here’s a look at the watch accompanying the new my golf spy red rooster glove!

I haven’t wore it as an everyday watch, just on the course. I walked 27 holes Saturday and it had over 50% battery left when I plugged it in when I got home. 

I haven’t wore it as an everyday watch, just on the course. I walked 27 holes Saturday and it had over 50% battery left when I plugged it in when I got home. 

Love the data points that start plugging in. Easy to read charts are always a bonus. 

Played a round in the pouring rain on Saturday.  I wore a raincoat and it was covering the watch a lot of the time unless I was checking yardages.  I noticed a couple of times while checking the watch for distances that there wasn’t a club tagged. I assumed it would just automatically tag through the jacket.  It was sometimes but missed a lot of shots. After noticing it, I tightened the cuff strap on my sleeve so that the watch was exposed. 
 
I ended up having a pretty good round, shot 89 which is the best I’ve shot since starting back playing a few months ago.  When I got the round download and ready to edit, my watch missed 14 shots. 10 around the time I was wearing the raincoat over the watch, 1 penalty stroke not entered and the others were chunked chips or picking my wedge up in my hand before doing the pin collection. 
 

 
Here’s a look at the watch accompanying the new my golf spy red rooster glove!

Played a round in the pouring rain on Saturday.  I wore a raincoat and it was covering the watch a lot of the time unless I was checking yardages.  I noticed a couple of times while checking the watch for distances that there wasn’t a club tagged. I assumed it would just automatically tag through the jacket.  It was sometimes but missed a lot of shots. After noticing it, I tightened the cuff strap on my sleeve so that the watch was exposed. 
 
I ended up having a pretty good round, shot 89 which is the best I’ve shot since starting back playing a few months ago.  When I got the round download and ready to edit, my watch missed 14 shots. 10 around the time I was wearing the raincoat over the watch, 1 penalty stroke not entered and the others were chunked chips or picking my wedge up in my hand before doing the pin collection. 
 

 
Here’s a look at the watch accompanying the new my golf spy red rooster glove!