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 enlarge | Brand: iGolf
Category: CE
List Price: $330.33
Buy New: $299.99
You Save: $30.34 (9%)
New (3) from $299.99
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 30202
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
MPN: 28851
Model: iGolf
UPC: 854006001017
EAN: 0854006001017
ASIN: B000F4SNOQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Quick and easy to use!!!!!!!! September 23, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm glad I purchased this product-it is quick and easy to use. It has helped me on the golf course deciding the distance to the greens. I've probably lowered my handicap 2 or 3 strokes.
Jim Golfer September 1, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent. I compared and got a Skycaddie but, choose this because of ease, price and funtionality. Great options to customize and map your favorite course on top of their survey.
Great Support from them as well. Mike from sales was Great!! The assesories are also a lot less. They (another vendor) have a great carrying case for only $30.
 Yardage no longer a mystery September 1, 2007
Great tool. I like the ability to add courses, and the great number that exist. No longer have to search for yardage markers. A great time saver.
iGolf GPS Caddie August 28, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Being the skeptic that I am I was really surprised at how well this product worked. Once I figured it out, it was easy to download golf courses from the hundreds available online (virtually every course in my area). The unit starts up quickly, works well from inside a golf cart, and appears to be extremely accurate.
On the downside, batteries only last about two rounds (I've got to buy rechargeables), and the manual is a bit confusing.
 Handheld unit 4 stars, course data 2 stars July 23, 2007
I used this unit for about 2 months before I sent it back, primarily because the downloaded course data is inaccurate.
The unit itself works pretty well. A few operations like adding custom points or mapping courses are somewhat complicated and hard to remember without having the manual with you, but using on the golf course is simple and straightforward. Battery life is satisfactory - I got 36 holes or more from a pair of 2500 mAh rechargeable AAs. Accuracy is as expected (+- 3 yards) IF the course had been mapped accurately.
And therein lies the rub. I have used it on 8 courses in my area (S. OR - N. CA). Four of these had serious course mapping problems. On two of them, the hole locations were simply incorrectly mapped. You could stand in the middle of the green and iGolf would tell you you were still anywhere from 5 to 17 yards from the center. Of course, distances on the fairway were off by the same amount. On two other courses, the hole numbers were incorrect. It was obvious that an old scorecard was used to compile the data. One course had switched the front and back nines more than 8 years ago. The other rearranged the sequence of several holes on the back nine over three years ago. It is worth noting that in all of these cases, another member of the foursome had a SkyCaddie, which showed none of these problems. When I contacted iGolf tech support and asked them how they mapped the courses, they told me that they were professionally mapped on the actual course. I have a hard time believing this. Competent professionals with survey grade GPS equipment would not be 5-17 yards off, and moreover, would get the current hole sequence correct.
Although the pre-mapped course data for iGolf is much cheaper than for SkyCaddie, it looks like you get what you pay for. You can of course, do your own course mapping and/or correct the downloaded course data with the iGolf. It is tedious, but if you only play a few courses it might not be a big problem, and you will save some money compared to SkyCaddie.
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