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Skycaddie is too big and it can’t compare with newcomers to the market like the uPro. Charging membership fees to have access to 1000′s of courses is great for Skycaddie but a waste for the golfer. I play at most 5 different courses. I have a uPro in the mail and that is that. I suggest you consider doing the same.
Rating: 1 / 5

I bought this for the simple purpose of measuring the yardage when I am playing golf. You would think that for the $50+ annual fee they charge, you could just plug the Skycaddie in to your PC’s USB port, pick a course from the website and it would just download it automatically, unplug it and go play….But no, this is one of the most frustrating products I have ever owned.

First, it can only hold 10 courses. If you travel a bit, you have to remove and then add courses. When I go to download a new course every few months, it first requires that I update the device software multiple times. Or it requires that I update my PC software. I have never had a product which requires so many manual updates. This is after they completely redid the PC synchronization software last year, which took me another hour.

Just when you think you are done, it says there is yet another update available. There is no progress report such as “You have completed 3 of 4 updates.” It just keeps saying “Another update is available.”

It has taken me 45 minutes tonight just to add a single course to play and I’m on a fast broadband connection.

Then frequently the PC software cannot find the Skycaddie. So I have to start again. It is very finicky about whether the Skycaddie is connected or not, whether it has restarted or not and you cannot even tell when it has restarted, since the Error messages do not correspond to the words on the Skycaddie screen.

How is this for a help message?

Connect the SkyCaddie to an available USB port on your computer.

The tab on the USB cable should face up with the cord going down.

Click Start on your Windows desktop (computer screen).

Select Control Panel.

Click Classic View if items are shown in Category View.

Click System.

Click Hardware , then click Device Manager.

Continue to the next steps for SG3 and SG4 or SG2, SG2.5, and SG5 models.

SG2, SG2.5, and SG5

Click the plus sign next to Ports and you should see CP2101 UART to Bridge Controller.

If the CP2101 UART to Bridge Controller is not listed under ports, click the plus next to Universal Serial Bus Controllers and look for anything that starts with CP210. If CP2101 UART to Bridge Controller is not listed, connect your SkyCaddie to another USB port repeat the above instructions.

If CP2101 UART to Bridge Controller is listed only under Universal Serial bus controllers, follow the next steps.

Right click CP210? and select update driver.

Select Yes, this time only.

If you don’t see Yes, this time only, choose the advanced option that usually allows you to install the driver from a list or a specific location.

Select Include this location in the search and click Browse.

Click the plus next to My Computer, then click the plus next to Local Disk or (C:) drive.

Click the plus next to Program Files, then click the plus next to SkyGolf.

Click the plus next to SkyCaddie Desktop. Click the Drivers, then click OK.

Click Next to update the driver.

If you get a message that the driver has not passed Windows logo testing, click Continue anyway.

Click Finish when the update process is complete.

And the process of picking the courses and then downloading them is clumsy.

This product is very poorly designed for its end user market and I would never buy this product again or recommend it to anyone. All of this updating could be done in the background without so much complexity. AS soon as I have time to switch to a different product I will.
Rating: 1 / 5

This was a gift to an avid golfer and the result was very good. No fault.

The order was completed and fulfilled as stated and in a very timely

manner. I would recommend with no regrets.
Rating: 5 / 5

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