SkyCaddie SGX Golf GPS

The SkyCaddie SGX seeks to achieve the ultimate in convenience and reliability in a golf GPS device. The SGX can store up to 30,000 pre-loaded, ground-verified course maps, making it ready-to-play out of the box. The unit boasts a durable, sleek design with a large three-inch, easy-to-read, transflective TFT-LCD screen that provides brilliant color images in even the brightest sunlight.

The SGX boasts a new design with brilliant color display on a three-inch HD LCD screen.

The SGX uses an innovative dual navigation option to provide golfer-friendly, one-handed operation and enhanced precision positioning without blocking critical screen information with fingers and smudges. With its new, intuitive user interface, the SkyCaddie SGX offers all of the standard features discerning golfers have come to expect from their GPS units, plus several proprietary stroke-saving essentials that have kept SkyCaddie the No. 1 rangefinder in golf for more than 10 years.

Key Features

New Design With Brilliant Color Display: Durable, sleek design, with a large three-inch, high-resolution, transflective TFT-LCD screen for brilliant images in even the brightest sunlight.
Dual Navigation:Golfer friendly, one-handed operation provides more precise positioning and better accuracy without obscuring screen information with fingers and smudges.
TruePoint GPS Precision Positioning Technology: High-performance GPS engine for ultra-fast satellite acquisition and unmatched accuracy and reliability.
Omni-Directional, High-Performance GPS Antenna: Locks quickly to more satellites and stays locked to optimize performance and accuracy in all terrains, even under tree foliage.
High-Precision Ground-Verified Course Maps: Only SkyCaddie walks every course to make sure you have information you can trust, providing unlimited access to complete, reliable, ground-verified course maps.
Preloaded Courses: Up to 30,000 course maps are preloaded and ready-to-play out of the box with Basic Green information. Plus store up to 50 full-featured courses through a SkyCaddie Membership Plan.
Hazards, Carries, and Layups: SkyCaddie records thousands of points on each golf course with sub-meter precision. Distances to hazards, carries and layups are displayed automatically as you move down the course.
Interactive HoleVue With Zoom: SkyCaddie is creating, at a rate of hundreds per month, the only high-precision graphics library of every golf hole, based on ground-corrected data. With HoleVue, you'll know the distance to any point on a hole in order to play that hole with the fewest strokes.
IntelliGreen: SkyGolf's patented IntelliGreen technology provides you with an eagle's view of each green from anywhere on the golf course. The graphic rotates to provide front carry, back yardages, and green depth from your approach angle.
IntelliGreen Pro (Beta): IntelliGreen Pro (Beta) is a dynamically enhanced version of IntelliGreen that adds the ability to display major tiers, contours, false fronts and mounds from your angle of approach to the green. With IntelliGreen Pro, you'll always know what's ahead, no matter where you are on the hole, even when you can't see the green.
Measure Any Shot: Discover exactly how far you hit every club in your bag.
Digital Scorecard: Keep track of your round with the SkyCaddie Digital Scorecard. Just enter your handicap into the preferences and pars for your handicap are automatically highlighted on the digital scorecard. Set up the MyPar screen and the SkyCaddie's Digital Scorecard adjusts to your handicap.
ClubSG:Get better connected to your game, course, equipment, teacher, and other golfers. Sync and store your game data in your Personal Performance Locker, track key stats, learn about courses, find a PGA Professional near you, learn if your equipment is helping or hurting your game, and share your experiences with other golfers.

Included with this Product

SkyCaddie SGX device
Rechargeable battery
LCD screen protectors
USB cable
AC power adapter
Heavy-duty belt clip
Quick Start Guide

Technical Specifications

Measures 2.5 by 4.8 by 0.75 inches (W x H x D)
5.6-ounce weight with battery
High-resolution, three-inch transflective TFT-LCD screen
Rechargeable Lithium-ion Polymer battery offers up to 14 hours of continuous use

Membership Plans
SkyCaddie membership plans for the SG3.5 start at $19.95 a year, and offer:

Unlimited access to reliable course information: SkyCaddie maintains the largest ground-verified course map library in the world, now approaching 30,000 courses. SkyCaddie walks the ground of every course, using survey-grade GPS equipment for precision mapping.
Up-to-date course mapping: By working with local golf course professionals, SkyCaddie is notified when a course's layout has changed, and updates maps accordingly, whether it's a major renovation or just the removal of a critical tree target. In 2009 alone, SkyCaddie representatives surveyed and re-mapped over 1,000 courses a month.
Powerful distance information presented in an understandable way: Proprietary features such as IntelliGreen, IntelliGreen Pro, and HoleVue show real-time distances to key areas on the hole from your angle of approach, so you can make better club selections and shots.
Access to an evolving golf community: Sync your SkyCaddie to a new exclusive online community to upload scores and track key stats with charts and graphs to help visualize your game and connect with other golfers.
Software updates for peak performance: By regularly syncing with the CaddieSync desktop software, your SkyCaddie will download software maintenance packages and the latest map updates for the courses you play.
Personal online account: Manage and save the courses you play regularly in your Favorites list within CaddieSync. Your membership plan ensures your favorite courses are easily accessible when you're ready to play.
Constant access: Access your personal golf information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, anywhere in the world where there is a computer with Internet access.

Membership enrollment information is included with your purchase.

Warranty
SkyCaddie products include a limited 30-day manufacturer's warranty against defects in materials and workmanship, and consumers who register their product within 30 days may purchase an optional upgrade to a 12-month limited warranty.

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I waited for about a week from release to order the SGX skycaddie from Amazon. The negative review on synching with windows worried me. After reading the user comment I went ahead and ordered the unit figuring that, if it didn't work I could always return it to Amazon. I had no problems synching it, and it downloaded the courses I selected without any problems. It is very important to note that Quick Vue does not work with SGX, only Hole Vue does. I didn't realize this and wondered why he courses I play did not show the hole view. It turns out only two of them were listed as having Hole Vue. If this is important you need to check on the skygolf website to make sure that your courses are mapped for Hole Vue. I believe this will get resolved soon as they get their mapping up to date. On the course, I found the ranges accurate which are what this rangefinder is really about and is the reason I did not get any of the satellite mapped rangefinders. The controls consist of three small keys, which might be a little too small for people with big fingers and also have a tad of a learning curve to get to use them properly. There is a button/joystick to navigate the cursor around. It does double duty as selection button when you press on it; this may cause problems for some but there is a workaround in the settings menu, where you can disable the select function from the joystick and just use the right key for that. Two additional small buttons on either side of the joystick serve to take you out of golf menus and into your scorecard. There are two larger buttons at the bottom corners: The left one (with a ball logo) is used to mark your ball position to use the stroke distance measurement. You hit the button where you hit the ball from and when you get to the ball the display shows (in numbers that are too small and easy to miss) the distance to the spot you hit from. (Note that the manual is wrong and you should not hit the ball button again.) The right one with a flag takes you to the green view. You have a choice to have your unit keep your score for you. It will also track number of fairways hit and how you miss them, as well as number of putts per hole. It will keep 10 scorecards in memory and synch them to your account in SkyGolf, which is rather neat. The biggest negative for me is the learning curve. It takes a while to learn all the features and how to use them. All in all, I like the unit and recommend it. I may edit this after I have a chance to play with it some more.