I have been experimenting with various measurements and situations. Once in any trees, my Fenix 5X Plus shows consistently short distances. A 10% difference on a 25 k. This means I was preparing for another 3 km when the finish line appeared.
Garmin says…
This was one of the features that sold me on this product. As I tend to have a slow club head swing the distances recorded are coming up 30-40 yards short. Frustrating
I have had the same issue for 2 rounds this week, did a reset to my watch before I checked here. The GPS seems to be working, it tracks the distance from tee shot to next short, it goes into score mode when I step on the green, just the distances are…
Good thoughts. I will hang a bottom weighted plastic tarp in front of the net this weekend and if the short-distance velocity improves.
Some other observations - Originally using Kirkland signature balls with about 8,000 cycles each at my backyard net…
I have and Edge 1030 and it is now bringing up a new screen showing dist to point and time to point, but the point is only a very short distance, so it’s constantly beeping every 100m or so. This is on a pre loaded map created in Connect. It didn…
You can download a FIT file here: https://tracklog.studioblueplanet.net/2022-05-17-19-43-02.fit
This is a FIT file containing about 30% of incorrect track points [180,180] and accordingly a distance that is about 30% to short.