Check score for the hole you're on

Former Member over 6 years ago

Wow, getting registered for the forums is as hard as deciphering the manual! (The kept telling me my email wasn't valid - BY EMAIL lol.)

Anyway, Say I'm on a Par 5 perhaps, I played into the trees, hit another tree trying to get back onto the fairway, sending me deeper into the woods :( Each time I've hit the ball, I've entered the club used. So I know the watch knows how many shots I've had. By the time I get to the green, I'm not sure how many shots I've made. Can I check quickly?
On entering the green the watchface changes to one asking how many shots (Usually the par for the hole) Hasn't the watch counted my strokes? Why come up with 4 or 5? I thought that's what this expensive watch did? - Count my shots and wait til I entered the puts, then the penalties if any. Add those and give you the score total for the hole so I can give this to the person marking my card!
If I have to keep score, what's the point of the watch? Just for review when I get back to the laptop?

tia if you can point out the errors in my thinking.
Brutus

0 ekutter-dnu over 6 years ago

Not sure about the S60, but on the F5+ you can look at "measure distance" and then previous shots. Shows you the shots it's detected since the drive. You'd think it would count shots for you but I suspect they don't fill in that field because its impossible for them to know what were real shots vs practice shots, or missed shots. Enough room for error that it probably doesn't make sense to try to count total hits for you. Say you hit one of those trees and the ball landed within a few feet of where you hit it from. It wouldn't be able to tell that the first one wasn't a practice shot. I'm sure about the exact algorithm, but I suspect it's counting swings and doesn't know that you actually hit the ball. It probably won't count multiple swings from within a few feet since they are likely just practice shots. Same thing goes for when you are in a sand trap. Unfortunately it's too common to have the ball end up about where you hit from when it doesn't make it out. Puts are also a very hard one to count accurately because the motion is hard to detect 100% from other motions.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

Practice swings are another thing altogether. The watch should not count them at all bc the watch needs contact with the ball. (Clean contact, they say) It doesn't count by "swing rather contact. I've never had a practice swing register although the other day I made the mistake of chipping a practice ball that had lobbed on our fairway. It was counted :( and I had to remove it on the laptop. There doesn't seem to be an "Undo" facility!
The S60 automatically measures the distance from a detected shot. You don't have to press anything to start the measurement.

Still looking to find a way of getting the shots played figure on the hole you're playing..... Anyone?

0 Mirek over 6 years ago

I noticed that the watch counts my shots but it does not display them directly after the hole is played. It does it indirectly. This is what I observed, note that I also use CT10 on all my clubs, if I put my score that equals to the shots that is counted by the watch I am not asked for number of putts or any penalty shots on that hole. If there is discrepancy then the watch assumes that this is because of the penalties that it cannot recognize automatically and penalty option is shown to me.

0 boutdislife over 6 years ago

yeah dont think you can get the shots an easy way. whenever it suggests a number of shots on the s60 it is just the par for that hole and usually only once you get to the green.

but if you do want to check your shot count during a round at any hole

hit the top right button to bring into the golf menu

i think its the green icon that looks like a magnify glass

that should show you a list of you last shot and the shots before that, that were recorded

it's a few steps and it isnt cumulative, but it is there if you want to spend the time

otherwise just wait till the round is over and then you can view it on the garmin golf app.