Golf Measure Shot Question

I played again yesterday and, except for a hole or two, the real time display of yardage from the last shot worked just fine. I have no clue about what is going on here (I used automatic scoring, BTW). 

dave

I played 2 consecutive rounds where the real time display of yardage worked as expected. In my round today it did not work at all (showing only the hole/par/yardage where 'real time distance from the last shot' had been showing). I have no clue what is going on (and it would appear that no one does). 

dave

In the same boat.  Recently (I've posted my troubles) I got a new refurb model.  After getting this model, the shot registration has stopped working.  Sometimes it works with practice swings, although it never works with real swings at this point.

I can confirm though, that yes, you do need to turn on scoring in order for the shot detection to work, you should also turn on the club prompt.  Again, these things used to work before 23.20 version.

Thanks for the response. FWIW, my watch (new purchase 2 months ago) seems to be pretty effective at detecting full swing shots. It is just the Shot Measure function (displayed in real time on the main screen) that is literally hit or miss (but consistent across a single round). 

dave

So when it works, it will register your shots, and you can see them on the application afterwards?  It will just not show the distance update while you're walking?  I just went back into look at my app, and it does look like the shots are registered (although not all of them) on the map.  I assumed they wouldn't be there and never bothered to look since the measurement wasn't showing.

So ya, I guess I'm in the same boat, where it's tracking shots, although it looks like the shot data is:

- Not really working off the tee (most holes have approach shots but not driver shots)

- The par 3s look like they are teeing off away from the tee deck, I recently updated my maps, so maybe that's the issue

I have an active issue opened with the Garmin Golf team, so maybe something will pop up from that.

I really don't know if the shots get transferred to Garmin Connect or not as I have never bothered to save a round. I have both laser and GPS devices (I use ShotScope for shot tracking). I didn't buy my FR955 for golf functionality, but having real time distance live on my wrist at all times is very handy. It takes a couple of button pushes to get it on my ShotScope device so it is simply a minor convenience item. I can tell that shots are registered from the scores that it asks me to confirm after each hole. But I have never even bothered to save a round as ShotScope is my goto for that. 

Shotscope watch looks like a decent alternative if they can't sort out the nonsense and keep saying that a new watch is needed. 

I use the H4 device that clips onto my (Shotscope) laser rangefinder. It requires that you touch your club sensor to the device before each shot, but if you remember then shot detection is 100%. But the UI has its own quirks, but nothing that would offend a regular Garmin user :-)

Hrm.. I just saw that the things are required for the watch to work as well.  Not sure I'm about that tag on the end of my clubs lifestyle.  I tried the Arccos for a bit and that wasn't for me.