Shot Scope V5 2024 Forum Review

[Bohnson]

Anyone had the issue of an 18 hole round showing up at two separate rounds afterwards? I Finished a round this past weekend and it came back as a 2 separate rounds 9 hole rounds. Not a big deal, just odd. 

[cnosil]

56 minutes ago, Bohnson said:

Anyone had the issue of an 18 hole round showing up at two separate rounds afterwards? I Finished a round this past weekend and it came back as a 2 separate rounds 9 hole rounds. Not a big deal, just odd. 

Yes,  contact support and they will combine.  

[Bohnson]

thanks @cnosil! How long have you been using shotscope? 

[cnosil]

33 minutes ago, Bohnson said:

thanks @cnosil! How long have you been using shotscope? 

I used it as part of the forum test from mid '22 to mid '23 and then started again in May of this year.  Still debating if I am going to keep using it.   

[UNCRoss]

On 6/17/2024 at 12:28 PM, Bohnson said:

Anyone had the issue of an 18 hole round showing up at two separate rounds afterwards? I Finished a round this past weekend and it came back as a 2 separate rounds 9 hole rounds. Not a big deal, just odd. 

Had the same issue a couple weeks ago i edited it into one round, took a while to fix

[Irish-Assassin]

Wow, Wow, Wow. For anyone that’s broke their phone, they get it and for the ones that haven’t, I don’t wish it for you. 
Finally my new phone fixed and back. 
So back to Shot Scope V5, this last round there was only one thing I needed to edit on the score card, so that’s an improvement on previous rounds, only issue was that it lost sync with phone and when I realized I was 69000 yards from the course. lol 

[Irish-Assassin]

The course I was so far away from was called We-Ko-Pa Cholla Course, they have two and if you’re ever in AZ Scottsdale Area, I would recommend this course. From the driving range to the leather padded seats, staff members and how immaculate the course was. 

The Shot Scope did a better job this round, yes it lost sync with phone but I was able to add it from the data on the watch. But for me it’s the data that helps me the most, yes yardages are very important when playing but improving is the key thing with the data this Shot Scope gives. Not sure if this changed from last time I posted it. 

[Subdiver1]

19 hours ago, Irish-Assassin said:

Wow, Wow, Wow. For anyone that’s broke their phone, they get it and for the ones that haven’t, I don’t wish it for you. 
Finally my new phone fixed and back. 
So back to Shot Scope V5, this last round there was only one thing I needed to edit on the score card, so that’s an improvement on previous rounds, only issue was that it lost sync with phone and when I realized I was 69000 yards from the course. lol 

There is only one solution to a 69,000 yard drive.  Immediate ball roll-back! 

I have run into a couple of errors while on the course with the X5, but not anything to the magnitude you saw. I changed holes and then changed back to the hole I was on and it resolved without having to restart the round. This is interesting though.  

Another, weird, item I have run up against several time is time zone synching.  You would think that the watch pulls GPS to find the course nearest the player so the time/time zone would synch, but every time I start the watch and a round in another time zone, without having synched to my phone and the app first, the time remains aligned to the last time zone I was in when I synched to the app

(e.g. I played last week in NC and synched my phone after the round, the watch displayed the local, EST time. Returned to the West Coast Monday morning and played Tuesday evening.  When I turned the watch on it displayed east coast (EST) time, 3 hours ahead of local (PST) time . The time shown on the watch during the entire round was EST zone; after I synched the watch to my phone and the app to load the round, the watch updated to PST time.  

BUUUUTTTT....here's the kicker... even though the time displayed ON the watch face and at the top during the round was EST. The time for the round that shows up for stats and editing, has the correct, local time.  

W-E-I-R-D!

[Subdiver1]

Okay testers!  What I want to know is...

Battery life experience?  

  or 

Love to hear the votes from testers and users.

[StrokerAce]

have any testers had to return their watch?

my first watch - one of the buttons broke off and I had to return that one.

my second watch - it would rarely sync and I couldn't download rounds to the app on a consistent basis so I had to return that one.

I'm hoping my 3rd watch is the charm.

I will say that the support team at shotscope is quite helpful and responsive although there seems to be a 12 hour delay in response time. Maybe they're located in the UK/Scotland?

[Irish-Assassin]

Battery life hasn’t been bad for myself, but I always charge it after a round, the first round it went down quickly but since then it’s been fine, now I’m no nuclear scientist but I’m wondering with temperatures throughout the year and test locations has any barring on battery life as I know some people have mentioned it’s gone down really quick. 
The syncing issues have been around since day one, some times it syncs immediately and some times it takes several times, at one point I had to sign out and back in to get it to work. 
One round wouldn’t edit and sync so after trying for about two hours to get it to work, I had to delete it and move on. 

 

[Irish-Assassin]

18 minutes ago, Subdiver1 said:

There is only one solution to a 69,000 yard drive.  Immediate ball roll-back! 

I have run into a couple of errors while on the course with the X5, but not anything to the magnitude you saw. I changed holes and then changed back to the hole I was on and it resolved without having to restart the round. This is interesting though.  

Another, weird, item I have run up against several time is time zone synching.  You would think that the watch pulls GPS to find the course nearest the player so the time/time zone would synch, but every time I start the watch and a round in another time zone, without having synched to my phone and the app first, the time remains aligned to the last time zone I was in when I synched to the app

(e.g. I played last week in NC and synched my phone after the round, the watch displayed the local, EST time. Returned to the West Coast Monday morning and played Tuesday evening.  When I turned the watch on it displayed east coast (EST) time, 3 hours ahead of local (PST) time . The time shown on the watch during the entire round was EST zone; after I synched the watch to my phone and the app to load the round, the watch updated to PST time.  

BUUUUTTTT....here's the kicker... even though the time displayed ON the watch face and at the top during the round was EST. The time for the round that shows up for stats and editing, has the correct, local time.  

W-E-I-R-D!

Hit my first drive on to a truck bed heading towards Scottsdale, three wood from the 101 into truck going up shea boulevard, wedge onto another truck down the N Beeline Hwy, driver up driveway at course, then 3 wood, hybrid, hybrid and pitching wedge two putts for a crowd pleasing 10. 
I need a sleep after that.

[Bohnson]

On 6/21/2024 at 3:14 PM, Subdiver1 said:

Okay testers!  What I want to know is...

Battery life experience?  

  or 

Love to hear the votes from testers and users.

It is okay. I just charge it after every round. Maybe lasts two rounds depending on how slow it is out there and how much you are using the features. So the answer is it depends and just charge it after every round. 

[UNCRoss]

On 6/21/2024 at 3:14 PM, Subdiver1 said:

Okay testers!  What I want to know is...

Battery life experience?  

  or 

Love to hear the votes from testers and users.

Battery life has been excellent for me, I have walked 27 holes and it was over 50 % battery when I got home and plugged it in.  I just got home from vacation and I played a couple days down there.  One day I wore the watch on the course with tagging and gps, a slow 4 1/2 hour round and wore the watch as a watch the rest of the day and it wasn't dead when I took it off that night.

[UNCRoss]

On 6/21/2024 at 3:19 PM, StrokerAce said:

have any testers had to return their watch?

my first watch - one of the buttons broke off and I had to return that one.

my second watch - it would rarely sync and I couldn't download rounds to the app on a consistent basis so I had to return that one.

I'm hoping my 3rd watch is the charm.

I will say that the support team at shotscope is quite helpful and responsive although there seems to be a 12 hour delay in response time. Maybe they're located in the UK/Scotland?

I haven't returned mine.  I haven't had any issues with the buttons, but did have several issues syncing and downloading, but I deleted the app and reinstalled it on my phone and that seemed to fix my issues so I think they were more on the app end than the watch itself.  The issue I have sometimes is that it takes it a while on my home course to find the gps and start the round.  I didn't have that issue on vacation this past week.

[Preeway]

After a few months using the Connex and app, I’m fed up with the glitches and awkwardness of the mechanics to log every shot. Following closely to determine if I buy a watch for Christmas or gut this out for one more year. 

[RohanVster]

Hi guys, my apologies for being quite, mother in-law past away so everything was hectic last week.  

[RohanVster]

On 6/21/2024 at 9:14 PM, Subdiver1 said:

Okay testers!  What I want to know is...

Battery life experience?  

  or 

Love to hear the votes from testers and users.

Howzit @Subdiver1, personal for me, I don't see myself playing two rounds with one charge, will definitely last you one round, even with a slow field. 

[Northern Monkey]

@RohanVster sorry for your loss

The battery life is ok on my X5 and will easily do 18 holes but not much more. I played last Thursday and played 10 holes, had lunch then 18 holes. The battery died on hole 15 in the afternoon

[RohanVster]

On 6/21/2024 at 9:19 PM, StrokerAce said:

have any testers had to return their watch?

my first watch - one of the buttons broke off and I had to return that one.

my second watch - it would rarely sync and I couldn't download rounds to the app on a consistent basis so I had to return that one.

I'm hoping my 3rd watch is the charm.

I will say that the support team at shotscope is quite helpful and responsive although there seems to be a 12 hour delay in response time. Maybe they're located in the UK/Scotland?

Luckily I didn't have any issues with the buttons or problems, I also had a issue with syncing rounds afterwards but what I did is uninstalled the app and re-install it and that seamed to solve the sync issue. 

Really hope your 3rd watch will working perfectly because it's great to have for stats and on course information. 

[RohanVster]

3 hours ago, Northern Monkey said:

@RohanVster sorry for your loss

The battery life is ok on my X5 and will easily do 18 holes but not much more. I played last Thursday and played 10 holes, had lunch then 18 holes. The battery died on hole 15 in the afternoon

Thanks so much @Northern Monkey, always a difficult time but it's part of life

I have noticed on certain rounds it uses more battery life than others.

[Shrek74]

3 hours ago, RohanVster said:

Thanks so much @Northern Monkey, always a difficult time but it's part of life

I have noticed on certain rounds it uses more battery life than others.

Sorry for your loss @RohanVster.

Mine does that too. I'll get home from a round and have 58% battery left. Then a week later get home from a round and only have 38% left. It's strange that there's no real pattern to what I see.

[RohanVster]

9 minutes ago, Shrek74 said:

Sorry for your loss @RohanVster.

Mine does that too. I'll get home from a round and have 58% battery left. Then a week later get home from a round and only have 38% left. It's strange that there's no real pattern to what I see.

Thanks so much @Shrek74,

What I think also plays a role is the amount of time you spend using the watch, like for instance when you move the pin around and checking the full screen maps. Might be the GPS signal getting lost as well...one will never really know.

[Shrek74]

2 hours ago, RohanVster said:

Thanks so much @Shrek74,

What I think also plays a role is the amount of time you spend using the watch, like for instance when you move the pin around and checking the full screen maps. Might be the GPS signal getting lost as well...one will never really know.

Yeah, it's really strange.

I only use the watch for stat tracking, keeping score, and F/M/B distance details from the main screen. I really never go in and mess with any of the other features (maybe one day I'll take the time to learn them all). So it surprises me how much variance there is in battery usage from round to round. My 5 courses are here within 5 miles of each other, so the GPS signal shouldn't really fluctuate that much I wouldn't think. Just strange.

[StrokerAce]

9 hours ago, RohanVster said:

Luckily I didn't have any issues with the buttons or problems, I also had a issue with syncing rounds afterwards but what I did is uninstalled the app and re-install it and that seamed to solve the sync issue. 

Really hope your 3rd watch will working perfectly because it's great to have for stats and on course information. 

Oddly my first watch worked fantastic with no syncing issues but the second one was the exact opposite.

I've done everything I can think of - uninstalled/reinstalled the app, reset the watch, reset the Bluetooth, etc. 

really hoping the 3rd one works out because I love using the watch and caught myself looking at my wrist a few times and forgetting it wasn't there.

 

[Subdiver1]

On 6/21/2024 at 12:19 PM, StrokerAce said:

have any testers had to return their watch?

my first watch - one of the buttons broke off and I had to return that one.

my second watch - it would rarely sync and I couldn't download rounds to the app on a consistent basis so I had to return that one.

I'm hoping my 3rd watch is the charm.

I will say that the support team at shotscope is quite helpful and responsive although there seems to be a 12 hour delay in response time. Maybe they're located in the UK/Scotland?

I had to replace my first X5 just about a year after getting it. The sensors in the band failed. SS customer service was OUTSTANDING. I wrote the review up earlier in the ShotScope user thread. I'd have to look back, but I think I had the replacement in under a week. They were great helping me trouble shoot it and in the end, said, send it back and we will send you a replacement. Before that discussion I didn't realize the button sensor was in the watch band, rather than in the watch; I kind of wondered why they didn't send a replacement band, but A. they were great with the replacement, and B. now I know why we cannot just buy any old band and use it with this watch.

[Subdiver1]

22 hours ago, RohanVster said:

Hi guys, my apologies for being quite, mother in-law past away so everything was hectic last week.  

Condolences and many preyers to you and your family.

[Subdiver1]

17 hours ago, RohanVster said:

I have noticed on certain rounds it uses more battery life than others.

 

10 hours ago, Shrek74 said:

So it surprises me how much variance there is in battery usage from round to round

 

13 hours ago, RohanVster said:

What I think also plays a role is the amount of time you spend using the watch, like for instance when you move the pin around and checking the full screen maps. Might be the GPS signal getting lost as well...one will never really know.

 

13 hours ago, Shrek74 said:

Mine does that too. I'll get home from a round and have 58% battery left. Then a week later get home from a round and only have 38% left. It's strange that there's no real pattern to what I see.

Interesting. I have seen pretty much the same performance throughout areas and rounds. There is a very rare occasion where I come back in after 18 and have above 30% remaining.  One time I had 38% and was not able to make it through another round that day (makes sense since >50% was used on the first round). Playing in the Pacific Northwest between November and May and Florida during the same time frame I really didn't notice any difference in battery performance in either location.  I think the best number I have seen after 18 holes is 43% or 48%.  I may have to start tracking that data.  I wonder if there is a "Stroke Gained" measurement for Battery Life percentage remaining between handicap zones 

 

Folks please understand, I realize the percentage of golfers that will play 36 holes on one given day probably pretty small, but the idea is that you can have a bit extra in the tank for when the watch turns on because the button got bumped, or the "UH-OH! Forgot to charge last night. But at least I can still get that second weekend round in because I know the battery has extra in it."

 

I play in a few tournaments annually that are same day, 36-hole events.  The PAT was one event where it would have been nice if the watch had made it all 36-holes.  The other side of it goes back to what I mentioned earlier and  I'll call reserve power. I went down to play a tournament on an unfamiliar course. I arrived 2-hours early and turned the watch on, in watch mode, when I got there while I was pitching, putting, and warming up (again, 2-hours before a tournament, not 4 hours or the night before) the watch was done before #18 (I think it made it through 15 holes).  Consequently, I never turn the watch on, in any mode, before getting ready to tee off. What kind of kills me about that is that my Fenix 3, and Fenix 6 could go through an IM race and still have days of batter life left for not all that much of a size difference (well, okay maybe the Fenix are a tad bit larger). The point is, that I can golf multiple rounds with my Fenix 6, run every day in the same week, and record a couple of HIIT workouts before I need to charge it.  Yes, the Fenix is larger and heavier, but It seems to me that there is a balance between the two that would be attractive to everyone who uses it; I can put ONE watch on when I leave the house, activate it for the round, upload the data, and come back home after dinner before having to put it on the charger.  I guess the silver lining is that when I get home really late, with brew on my breath, I can honestly say, "But honey, how was I supposed to know it was getting so late? Look. My watch died."   

[RohanVster]

13 hours ago, Shrek74 said:

Yeah, it's really strange.

I only use the watch for stat tracking, keeping score, and F/M/B distance details from the main screen. I really never go in and mess with any of the other features (maybe one day I'll take the time to learn them all). So it surprises me how much variance there is in battery usage from round to round. My 5 courses are here within 5 miles of each other, so the GPS signal shouldn't really fluctuate that much I wouldn't think. Just strange.

Wow yeah that's really strange...only reason I'm fiddling about during a round is to test it to the max, to confirm the accuracy. When I use my Garmin I hardly ever change pin location, I always just play (or try to) towards the middle of the green. The courses I play are about say +-35km (21.748miles) from each other but 2 of my rounds was on the same course. Must be something with the satellites then. 

[RohanVster]

10 hours ago, StrokerAce said:

Oddly my first watch worked fantastic with no syncing issues but the second one was the exact opposite.

I've done everything I can think of - uninstalled/reinstalled the app, reset the watch, reset the Bluetooth, etc. 

really hoping the 3rd one works out because I love using the watch and caught myself looking at my wrist a few times and forgetting it wasn't there.

 

Really hope the same for you bud, it's awesome to get your distances right from your wrist, helps so much if you know your distances with your irons as well, also a big pro from using the Shot Scope V5  getting all your averages from all the clubs used