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Note
During play, the Backlight will automatically turn off in 30 seconds.
However, the Backlight will remain ON while in Demo Mode.
Helpful Tip
Pressing the same button again will return you to the previous screen.
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C H A P T E R 1
Getting Started
1.1 SkyCaddie Overview
1.1.1 Button Layout
Digital Clock
1.1.2Navigation Keys
•Center Soft Key (Power On/Off, Backlight On/Off, and Key Lock/Unlock): Located beneath the display to power the device on/off and to toggle the keypad lock. Press the Center Soft Key while the SkyCaddie is on to select one of three options: 1) “Off” (Left Soft Key) to power off the device, 2) “Backlight” (Center Soft Key) to turn on the screen’s backlight, or 3) “Lock” (Right Soft Key) to lock the keypad. To unlock the keypad, select “Unlock” by pressing the Right Soft Key, then choose “Yes”.
•Scroll Pad: Allows you to navigate menu options by pressing UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT.
•Left and Right Soft Keys: Allows you to select functions displayed at the bottom left and right of the LCD display.
1.1.3Button Descriptions
•Info: Shows information relevant to your SkyCaddie or hole in play. (Additional information may include SkyCaddie Serial Number, Software Version, Course Name, Hole Number, Par and Handicap). Press the Info button twice to display
Upon receiving satellite lock, the SkyCaddie can display the time. While viewing the IntelliGreen or Target views, press Info and select “Time” with the Right Soft Key. Adjust the hour, if needed, by selecting “Adj”.
•Menu: Displays the SkyCaddie Main Menu.
•Hole: Displays information about the next hole. Press “Select” to advance to the next hole. To advance to a different hole, press the Scroll Pad LEFT/RIGHT or select “List” to view all holes. Scroll to the appropriate hole and press “Select”.
•Mark: Determines your shot distance. Press the Mark button, then select “Mark” before taking your shot. Press the Mark button again when you get to the location where your ball landed. The shot distance will be displayed. For more information about the Mark Ball feature, see Section 3.2.
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Did You Know?
SkyCaddie® and its desktop software, CaddieSync™, are compatible with Windows and Mac platforms.
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•Distance: Displays the selected unit for distance as either “Yd” = Yards, “M” = Meters, “mi” = Miles, or “K” = Kilometers.
•Battery Level: Displays remaining battery level.
•Digital Clock (New v.3 Feature!): Displays the current time.
•Satellite Signal Level: Shows
•Hole Number: Displays the current hole number in play.
1.2System Requirements
Before activating your SkyCaddie at www.skygolf.com, please make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements:
•PC with Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP/Vista(32or
•Mac OS® 10.4.0 (Tiger) or greater with Intel® or PowerPC® processor
•256 MB of RAM (512 MB of RAM recommended)
•4 MB of available hard disk space
•2X
•Available USB 1.1 or 2.0 port
•Internet access
•Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or later(PC)
•Safari® 2.0 or later(Mac)
1.3 Installing the Batteries
Prior to using your SkyCaddie, insert the supplied AAA disposal batteries. To install the batteries:
1.Open the battery compartment. Twist the battery door cover screw on the back of the SkyCaddie to gain access to the battery compartment.
2.Insert the supplied AAA batteries, then reattach the battery door.
1.4 Inserting the
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IMPORTANT!
If your computer is protected by a firewall, it may need to be set up to allow our SkyCaddie software programs to access the web. If your firewall software displays any warning messages during the activation process, simply indicate that you wish to allow access.
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If you have owned or used a SkyCaddie in the past, the CaddieSync desktop software has replaced the SkyCaddie Desktop program that formerly handled management of your SkyCaddie.
IMPORTANT!
CaddieSync will install a SkyCaddie icon on your computer’s desktop for easy access to the program anytime you need to download courses or manage your account.
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1.5 Downloading and Installing the Desktop Software
The CaddieSync™ desktop software is a simple program that enables communication between your SkyCaddie and an online SkyCaddie account that you will need to freely setup at www.skygolf.com. You will use CaddieSync to activate and register your SkyCaddie, purchase an optional Membership Plan, renew an annual Membership Plan, access and download SkyGolf’s growing list of SkyCourses and more. CaddieSync offers a Sync feature for automatic login to your online account.
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To install the latest version of CaddieSync onto your computer:
1.Using a computer with Internet connection, launch a web browser and type the following address in the address field: http://www.skygolf.com/caddiesync/start
2.In the right column, select the type of computer you own (PC or Mac) and the SkyCaddie model(s) you own, then click on “Download CaddieSync” (Fig. 3).
Fig. 3:
CaddieSync™ download area.
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4.Once CaddieSync has successfully installed, a SkyCaddie icon will be placed on your computer’s desktop. This will allow you to easily launch the program anytime you need to download courses or manage your account.
1.6Activating and Registering Your SkyCaddie
Within 30 days of purchase, you must register your SkyCaddie online. Registration is free, and it will allow you to activate the standard manufacturer’s warranty and associate your SkyCaddie’s Electronic Serial Number (ESN) to your contact information for support purposes. Your registration information is held in the strictest confidence at SkyGolf. We do not sell or share our users’ information to anyone outside of our organization without their consent.
To register your SkyCaddie:
1.Launch CaddieSync on your computer.
2.Click on the “Activate a New SkyCaddie” button on the CaddieSync welcome page (Fig. 4).
3.Following the Get Connected setup assistant to register and activate your SkyCaddie. If you did not purchase your SkyCaddie online and have never had a SkyGolf website account, you will be able to setup a free online website account during this process. You will also have the option to choose an annual Membership Plan that best serves the needs of your game.
Fig. 4:
“Activate a New SkyCaddie” button in CaddieSync™.
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Note
Membership is not required to obtain GPS signals or to record or play personal courses on your SkyCaddie. See Appendix B for a comparison of features on the
SkyCaddie with those additionally available with an annual Membership Plan.
Note
You can browse the SkyCourse library anytime through the public area of www.skygolf.com. However, in order to obtain the courses for use with your SkyCaddie, you MUST have a Membership Plan and use CaddieSync.
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1.7 Benefits of SkyPlayer Club Membership
During registration of your SkyCaddie, you’ll be given the option to select an annual membership plan designed to fit how many courses you play. You can significantly increase the value of your SkyCaddie with these member benefits for a small yearly fee:
•Online Course Storage. CaddieSync™ provides safe storage and easy access to courses obtained through our website. Your courses are managed and stored on our servers asFavorites, so you do not have to maintain files on your computer. Additionally, you can use any compatible computer in the world to access your Favorites.
•Easy Website Access. TheSync process within CaddieSync links your SkyCaddie to our website so that you can easily add courses to your SkyCaddie or update your software as new updates are available. This was formerly called “DirectConnect”
•SkyCourses®. SkyCourses are golf courses that have been mapped for use with the SkyCaddie and contain unique information on each course layout. Each membership plan provides different levels of SkyCourse access and storage in CaddieSync. Thousands of published SkyCourses are available online, and we keep the SkyCourses
•Published SkyCourses are golf courses that can be accessed with purchase of a Membership Plan. The quality of each published SkyCourse is rated on our website as follows:
–Four Star: recorded by one of our SkyGolf GPS professionals; contains information on up to 40 targets per hole plus an IntelliGreen.
–Three Star: professionally recorded prior to implementation of the IntelliGreen feature; does not include IntelliGreen graphics.
–Two Star/One Star: recorded by other members of the SkyCaddie community that have chosen to share their personal courses.
•Unpublished SkyCourses are golf courses created by you using your SkyCaddie. These are courses that only you can access and play with; they are not viewable by any other SkyCaddie users unless you choose to submit your Unpublished SkyCourses to SkyGolf. Our database is growing daily through the efforts of SkyGolf professionals and SkyCaddie members.
•Share Courses with Other Users. Members can submit courses they have created with the SkyCaddie to us to share with other members. The more members share, the more courses everyone will have access to.
•IntelliGreen®. IntelliGreen graphics are part of our exclusive, professional
•Theft Deterrent. Registering the SkyCaddie’s Electronic Serial Number (ESN) deters theft by protecting your investment from unauthorized use. If your SkyCaddie is lost or stolen, contact SkyGolf so that we can flag your ESN as “lost” or “stolen” to prevent unauthorized use.
•“Owned By” Screen. This screen allows SkyCaddie personalization.
•Online Support, Software Updates, and Upgrades. SkyCaddie software is automatically checked for upgrades and updated when you do a Sync (formerly “DirectConnect”).
1.8Downloading Courses to Your SkyCaddie
As defined above, SkyCourses are golf courses that have been recorded for use with the SkyCaddie and contain unique information on each course layout. Thousands of published SkyCourses are available online at the SkyGolf website for you to download to your SkyCaddie. Once you have installed CaddieSync and selected a Membership Plan, you will have access to our rapidly growing database of professionally mapped courses.
To search and download courses to your SkyCaddie, connect your SkyCaddie to your computer using the supplied cable, then launch CaddieSync. When the welcome page comes up, turn on your SkyCaddie and click on the “Sync” button on CaddieSync to log in. Click on “Courses” in CaddieSync to search for SkyCourses.
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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.
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c h a p t e r 2
Playing Golf With Your SkyCaddie
2.1 Acquiring Signals
While standing outside prior to play, power on the SkyCaddie by pressing and holding down the Center Soft Key firmly for
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 SkyCaddie 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”).
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
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
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2.3 Turning the Digital Scorecard On or Off
During
• New Round: Select if you are starting a new round and wish to maintain a scorecard for the round.
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 automatically 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:
An IntelliGreen is a graphic of the shape of the green (Fig. 7). In IntelliGreen view, the green will have an arrow drawn through it representing a direct
While in the IntelliGreen view, select “Target” with the Right Soft Key to
view target lists. To return to the IntelliGreen view, select “iGreen” using the Right Soft Key.
2.4.2 Target Views
Your SkyCaddie can display four different target views depending on your preference. By default, two views will be active (Graphical and Expanded View). You may choose any combination of four target views within the “Preferences” menu. To access “Preferences”, press the Menu button and scroll to “Preferences” and select. Within “Preferences”, scroll to “Target Views” and select. The SkyCaddie will display four target view options. Select the desired target views to display (a checkmark will appear next to each selected target view).
The SkyCaddie will display “View” and “iGreen” at the bottom of each target view screen. “View” (Left Soft Key) switches to the next enabled target view screen. To quickly return to the IntelliGreen view from any of the four target view options, simply select “iGreen” using the Right Soft Key. Upon returning to the IntelliGreen screen using the “iGreen” option, selecting “Target” at a later time will return you to the last target screen viewed. The four available Target Views are:Standard,Graphical,Expanded, andBig Number.
•Standard: A listing of all targets including safe landing zones in play from the tee that are visible or may be hidden will be displayed. Use the Scroll Pad to scroll through the targets manually (otherwise the targets will automatically scroll off the screen as you move down the fairway). The information provided with the Standard View instantly gives you the knowledge that only a caddie can provide to negotiate a hole (Fig. 8). Appendix A has a complete list of target names and their corresponding target descriptors.
•Graphical: Use the Graphical View to display targets as intuitive, graphical icons (Fig. 9). Press UP/ DOWN on the Scroll Pad to move one target at a time. Press LEFT/RIGHT on theScroll Pad to scroll to the top or bottom of the target list if the list is longer than can be displayed on a single screen.
•Expanded: Displays an expanded version of the target descriptor and gives you the “Leaves” distance to the center (crosshair on IntelliGreen view) from that target (Fig. 10).
•Big Number Target: Displays the selected target distance as a very large number for easy viewing (Fig. 11). Press UP/DOWN on the Scroll Pad to move one target at a time. Select “iGreen” to return to the IntelliGreen view.
2.4.3 Center Only View
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An alternative view is available for those simply looking for the distance to the center. The Center Only View is enabled or disabled within “Preferences” under “Center Only” (Fig.12). The Center Only View will override any previously enabled target views. In order to display other target view options, “Center Only” must be turned off.
2.5 Using the Digital Scorecard
If you selected the scoring option during the
1.Press left/right on the Scroll Pad to adjust the total number of actual shots taken.
2.Next, press down on the Scroll Pad, then left/right to adjust the number of Putts you took.
3.Press the Left Soft Key under “Next” when you are done.
Once you are finished with the scoring on that hole, the SkyCaddie will display a summary of how many holes you have played, how much over or under par you are at that point in the round, your total score and number of putts (Fig. 14). From this screen, you have two options:
1.Click the Left Soft Key under “OK” to proceed to the next hole, or
2.Press the Right Soft Key under “Score” to see your full Digital Scorecard (Fig. 15).
3.To navigate through each hole on the Scorecard, press up/down on the Scroll Pad. To change a score for a hole, press left/right on the Scroll Pad.
4.Press the Left Soft Key under “OK” to start the next hole, or the Right Soft Key under “Score” to see your Over/Under Summary (Fig. 16).
The Over/Under Summary screen tracks your performance against the pars for each hole. A negative number represents strokes under par, a positive number represents strokes over par, and an “E” will appear if you completed a hole at par.
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If you decide not to use the digital scoring feature for future rounds, you may turn off the Scoring option on the System Settings menu by doing the following:
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1.Press the “Menu” button
2.Using the Scroll Pad, move down to “Advanced Menu” and press the Left Soft Key under “Select”
3.On the Advanced Menu screen, scroll down to “System Settings” and press “Select”
4.Under System Settings, scroll down to “Scoring” and press “Select”, then set to “Off” (Fig. 17)
5.Press “Exit” to exit out of the Menu back to the play screens.
2.6MyPar™ Scoring Option
Fig. 16: Over/Under Summary
Fig. 17: System Settings screen
SkyCaddie also allows you to enter your handicap or a MyPar™ goal into the scoring system so that the Digital Scorecard for the course you are playing is adjusted according to your handicap. A MyPar™ goal is a target score for a particular golf course that a player is wanting to achieve to improve their game.
To activate the HCP / MyPar™ Scoring Option:
1.Press the “Menu” button
2.Select “Preferences”
3.Using the Scroll Pad, scroll down to “HCP/MyPar” and press the Left Soft Key under “Select” (Fig. 18).
4.When the HCP/MyPar screen appears, you can adjust your handicap (“HCP”) or MyPar goal by using the Scroll Pad and adjusting the number to the appropriate value (Figs. 19 & 20).
5.Press the Left Soft Key under “Select” when you are finished.
6.Press “Exit” to leave the Preferences Menu and Main Menu to return to the SkyCaddie’s play screens.
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