SkyGolf SG3.5 Playing Golf With Your SkyCaddie, Acquiring Signals, Selecting a Course to Play

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SG3.5 User Guide

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Playing Golf With Your SkyCaddie

2.1 Acquiring Signals

Note

You must be outdoors with an unobstructed view of the sky for the SkyCaddie to receive GPS satellite signals.

For optimum performance, keep your thumb and fingers on or below the ridges of the right side of the device, away from the antenna.

While standing outside prior to play, power on the SkyCaddie by press- ing and holding down the Center Soft Key firmly for 1-2 seconds. Select “Start” by pressing the Left Soft Key. Press the soft key to navigate the initial start up screens until the Satellite Searching Screen is displayed. You must power up the SkyCaddie 5-10 minutes prior to play to acquire GPS satellite signals and reach optimal performance.

While searching for satellite signals, the SkyCaddie displays animated graphics indicating when satellite signals are received. The SkyCaddie will display “Searching”, “Acquiring” and “Ready” as it acquires satellite signals (Fig. 5). Once the appropriate GPS fix is acquired, the SkyCad- die will automatically advance to the next screen. (You may manually advance to the next screen while the GPS continues to search for signals by selecting “OK” or “Demo”).

Fig. 5: Searching for GPS satellites

2.2 Selecting a Course to Play

If your SkyCaddie has obtained a GPS satellite signal fix, the SkyCaddie will attempt to determine your location and auto-select the closest installed course.

When a course is displayed, press “Select” to play that course or simply scroll to another course (courses will be sorted by distance from your current location). If no courses are installed on your SkyCaddie, the SkyCaddie will open the “Demo Course”. If only one course is loaded, the SkyCaddie will ask if you want to play that course.

Once a course has been selected, the SkyCaddie will ask you for the hole to start on or the Driving Range

(D). Make the appropriate selection to begin.

2.3 Turning the Digital Scorecard On or Off

During start-up, the SkyCaddie will ask if you would like to maintain a Digi- tal Scorecard of your round. Three options will be presented (Fig. 6):

• New Round: Select if you are starting a new round and wish to maintain a scorecard for the round.

• Resume Round: Select if you started a scorecard for a round, was
interrupted during that round, and want to get back to the round
where you left off.
• Skip Scoring: Select if you are not interested in using the Digital
Scorecard feature for the round you are playing. (Note: Selecting
“Skip Scoring” effectively turns off the scoring feature, so the fol-	Fig. 6: Scorecard options
lowing information in this section will not apply.)

Maintaining your score using the Digital Scorecard is a manual process; in other words, you will need to manually input your scores into the SkyCaddie after playing each hole. The SkyCaddie will not automati- cally track your scores. See Section 2.5 for more information on the Digital Scorecard.

2.4 Viewing Targets During Play

The SkyCaddie offers several different target view screens giving you options for displaying the key target information. Choose the target views that best fit your style of play. The next few sections detail the various views and their function: