Mar 3
- 15:00
- Posted by Paul O'Hagan
- comments (3)
Caddy Aid GPS review
The Caddy Aid GPS device features overhead photographs that allow you to calculate distances to anywhere on the course. The software comes on a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) and gives distances to the front of the green and total carry as well as lay-up distances and hazards. The Caddy Aid GPS Software can be downloaded onto any other PDA or Smartphone for £59.00. Course downloads are available for £7.50 each, or at various prices for bundle deals.
The colour photography helps to give a better understanding of courses you have not played before. If you already have a PDA you can reduce the initial cost by not needing to buy a GPS unit. The device is not quite as easy to use compared to other software, and the course downloads aren’t particularly cheap.
Reader comments
Add your commentsMarch 04 21:42
Colin Macdonald
Bought this software May2008, cant praise it enough, easy to use and helps with course management as well as providing accurate distances, way better than other GPS systems I have tried. Seriously, I`m sure it helped a great deal in lowering my handicap from 18 to 7 since I bought it.
Staff at caddieaid web site are extremely helpfull in updating courses
GREAT PRODUCT WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND
December 07 20:57
David Williams
I definately would NOT recommend buying this product. I bought the CaddyAid program in August 2008. It would not function on my golf course. I could not get an accurate reading on any hole on the course. When on the seventh to eighteenth hole an error message stated that I was not near a golf course. After nearly forty emails and letters to CaddyAid and the intervention of Michael Harris (Golf Monthly Editor) the Managing Director at CaddyAid (David Morris) met with me on site at my golf club. He admitted that there was a problem and agreed that the problem would be resolved by the spring of 2009. To date this has NOT happened. I cannot get a sensible answer from CaddyAid as to when they will correct the program.
Sureshot, Skycaddie, Snooper, Caddy Lite, Golf Buddy and iPhone Golfshot all work on my golf course. But NOT the CaddyAid. Please be very wary about purchasing this product
June 03 19:13
Gerry McGloin
Bought the software for this in 2008 as I already had a PDA. Saw it as a good option and cheaper than all of the other gps systems on sale at the time. Bad move! Had to buy a gps receiver and a bigger battery for my PDA since the original battery wouldn't last a full round. This bumped the price up quite a bit. I then found out that the course photographs were way out of date and alterations to my own course and other courses in the area were not included despite having been done 3 or 4 years earlier. There is no facility to edit courses and CaddyAid have no plans to update the pictures in the foreseeable future. Some of the pictures show the wrong tees and measurements on my own course were way out compared to other gps devices, and despite a number of tries CaddyAid couldn't correct them. They told me that since I am not a professional a 10 to 12 yard discrepancy wouldn't make much difference to me. The screen is practically impossible to see in bright sunlight, and the numbers on the screen are tiny. It keeps switching itself off. This might be caused by a conflict with other software on the PDA. but it is intensely irritating when you have to keep rebooting it in the middle of a round. I also have to keep locking the screen, otherwise I get unwanted lines showing distances to various parts of the hole, which you cant remove until you move to the next hole. In short, I made a bad buy, and wouldn't recommend this product to anyone.