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TESTERS ANNOUNCED! SKYCADDIE SX400 GPS


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  • Name and Location? Ryan Hanley; Chicago, IL
  • How do you currently get your yardages? A number of tools including: a Buschnell Tour V4 range finder, Game Golf system, sprinkler head, and in cart GPS.   
  • How do you feel about technology's relationship with golf? Embrace anything that will give more accurate distances, and analytics to better help me understand my game. 
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  • Aubrey, Berwyn, PA
  • sprinkler heads and golf gps/tag heuer app on my phone
  • I think tech has helped me shoot lower scores. I use it for "ish measurements" and distances to trouble. 

"I can't" means one of two things:
1) I'm not willing to try, or
2) I'm more afraid of failure than I am excited by success.

I can.

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1. Kyle - Indiana

2. Yardmarkers on the course and when my battery holds up app on  my dying iphone

3. I love the technology improvements, GPS has been awesome for golf when it is on the cart it is great

Irons: Nike Vapor Pro Combo 3-PW, Steel, Stiff flex

Driver: Mizuno ST180, Regular Flex, usually play 9.5

Putter: Odyssey Stroke Lab Mallet

Right Handed

Fishers, Indiana

HDCP: 18

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  • Name and Location
    • Calvin Lo / Baltimore, MD
  • How do you currently get your yardages?
    • I know my distances from my golf lessons and I usually play at my country club which I know very well. If I play elsewhere I just ask my buddy what club he's hitting and go off that. 
  • How do you feel about technology's relationship with golf?
    • I love it considering I get lessons from Golftec...
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  • Jeff, Southlake TX
  • My golf buddy's Bushnell, the on-course markers, or I just eyeball it
  • Technology and precise yardages probably help the more serious, competitive golfers more than recreational players. I just try to get an approximate yardage and "feel" the right shot. Gotta keep the pace of play moving. 😉 

This thread reminds me of a funny Ben Hogan story. Apparently, Ben was playing a casual round at Shady Oaks with a more talkative type who constantly asked him, "What'd you hit, Mr. Hogan?" Exasperated, he finally threw down two additional balls, hit two more shots into the green from the same spot, and responded, "I hit a 7-iron, a 6, and an 8!"

My :1590477705_SunMountain: C-130 cart bag currently includes;

Driver: :srixon-small: z565 10.5*, Miyazaki Kaula Mizu 6 S-Flex
Fairways:  :callaway-small: X-Hot 15* & 18*, Project X PXv R-Flex
Irons: :benhogan-small:Apex Plus, 4-PW, Apex S4-Flex
Wedges: :cleveland-small: CG10; 50*, 54*, 58*, Dynamic Gold W-flex 

Putter: :odyssey-small: White Hot Pro Blade #2
Grips: Golf Pride MCC-Plus 4 & Lamkin UTx
Ball: Kirkland Signature 3-Piece 

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I have been a SkyCaddie happy user for many years. I started with an SGX, then a Touch, now an SX500 (early adopter). I have been mostly pleased with the SX500. No issues on the course, the screen is readable in any light, yardage is good. The only problem is with charging. The proprietary USB plug is difficult to insert, and you don't dare do much wiggling. My charging port failed, and I got a replacement under warranty.

I would to try the SX400 to see if it measures up to the SX500, and if they have improved the charging port/USB plug. It would be so much better with the new USB-C port.

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I have a feeling there's a few people that have misread the eligibility for this one!

For those that don't use anything - this is a great opportunity and will change your game! Looking forward to readgin these reviews.

Driver: th.jpg.d6e2abdaeb04f007fd259c979f389de6.jpg Proto X 9° - Graphite Design Tour AD TP 6S

Fairways: th.jpg.d6e2abdaeb04f007fd259c979f389de6.jpg0341X Gen 2 13° - Graphite Design Tour AD IZ 6S; 0341X Gen 2 15° - VA Drago 65 S

1&2 iron: th.jpg.d6e2abdaeb04f007fd259c979f389de6.jpg 0311X - Graphite Design Tour AD IZ 95 X (1) S (2)

Hybrid: th.jpg.d6e2abdaeb04f007fd259c979f389de6.jpg 0317X Gen 2 19° - Accra Tour Z Xtreme Hybrid M4

Irons:  th.jpg.d6e2abdaeb04f007fd259c979f389de6.jpg 0311X Gen 1 4; 0311T Gen 2 4-PW - Oban CT115 S

Wedges:th.jpg.d6e2abdaeb04f007fd259c979f389de6.jpg Sugar Daddy Gen 2 - 50°, 54°, 58°- Oban CT 115 S; KBS Hi-rev 2.0

Putter:  1500419358_LABlogo-horizontal-black.png.141fcb5fd7603f7f248f3821f51a6797.png  Directed Force 2.1 35" with lagp.png.7ad0cf3ac148827f3723a9f69a948244.png 135 shaft

Ball: :taylormade-small: TP5 Pix

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Good Luck to all of those who enter this one!  I have the SX500 & it's a dream to use.  Makes finding distances quick & easy.  Find distances to hazards is just a move of the finger away.  

WITB:  Do I like Titleist or what? 

 

Driver:     :titleist-small: TSR3 9* UST MAMIYA LIN-Q BLUE 6F4 - B2 setting

Fairways   :titleist-small: TSi2 HZRDUS Smoke 13.5* A1 setting

Driving Iron:   :titleist-small: U500 17* :Fuji:  Blue Ventus HB Velocore 

Irons   :titleist-small: T200 4 - 7, T100S 8 - PW N.S.Pro Modus Tour 3 105g

Wedges    :vokey-small: SM6 48*, SM9 52*, SM8 56*

Putter    :cameron-small: Newport 2

Ball    :titleist-small:  *ProV1 Left Dot

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-Matt from Spotsylvania, VA

-I currently use a low grade laser range finder 

-I think their should be technology use in golf because if used properly it can speed up pace of play and lead better positioning around the course.

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  • Name and Location- Joe C Silver Spring Maryland and Charlotte North Carolina 
  • How do you currently get your yardages?  Range finder from top brand that jolts when it contacts the pin 
  • How do you feel about technology's relationship with golf?  I think there is a solid need especially for yardage.  I think the apps are not great you get on smartphones hince why I use a range finder.  I think the most important thing is to find something that you like, use it and it only, and that will keep your results consistent.  
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  • Aaron Kennon, Lynchburg Virginia
  • I currently use a Garmin Approach S6.
  • I think technology is only helping me. I will say knowing yardage to the front middle and back in nice. Before my S6 I would walk everything off and make some educated guesses. Now I am hitting a lot more greens. I am not in too deep into the technology yet but the more I poke around the more it seems to help me play better. 

:cobra-small: King F8+

:titelist-small: 980F: 3 and 5W

NIKE: VRs: 3HB

:ping-small: i3 Os: 4-PW

:titelist-small:  Vokey SM6 52F

:titelist-small:  Vokey SM7 60D

:odyssey-small: White Ice Core #1

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  • Aaron Kennon, Lynchburg Virginia
  • I currently use a Garmin Approach S6.
  • I think technology is only helping me. I will say knowing yardage to the front middle and back in nice. Before my S6 I would walk everything off and make some educated guesses. Now I am hitting a lot more greens. I am not in too deep into the technology yet but the more I poke around the more it seems to help me play better. 

:cobra-small: King F8+

:titelist-small: 980F: 3 and 5W

NIKE: VRs: 3HB

:ping-small: i3 Os: 4-PW

:titelist-small:  Vokey SM6 52F

:titelist-small:  Vokey SM7 60D

:odyssey-small: White Ice Core #1

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I would love to test one of these GPS units. I've been thinking of buying one for a while now and this would be a great way to get a really good one, " I think" and have a chance to test it at the same time for other golfers out there. 

My playing partner has an older model of the same brand so it would be fun and interesting to compare this new model to his older one. His is the older SGX W that is at least 5 or more years old. I play to a 6 handicap and it might be interesting to see if it gets a little lower with this new GPS unit helping me with more accurate yardages on the course. 

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Add a few things.

All my clubs are custom built with aftermarket shafts that have been spine and FLO aligned for max performance every swing. 

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  • Mark, Phoenix, AZ
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  • Arccoss and subtraction
  • great improvement
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In My BELDIN Green Bay Packer 1999 Super Bowl Champions Bag  :  :ping: G410 Plus, Alta Red CB 55 SR Flex, GX-7 14º(acting as a 3 wood),  :ping:   G400 4H, 5H. Sr Flex,   :ping:  G400 6i Sr Flex, G-Max 7i. 9i Sr Flex , Glide 2.0  Wedges graphite SR Shafts (50º, 56º, 60º),  :ping: Putter: Cadence Mid-TR 350g :bridgestone: e12 for the items I try to hit on purposematte red, so I can see them. :footjoy: on my feet and hands, US Embassy-Singapore hat on my head (with PACKERS, Brewers or UW-Badgers hats as options).

 

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