OVER FIVE HUNDRED COURSES
If you haven’t forayed into the
wonderful world of social media
or twitter yet @skycaddiesteve is
reason enough to do so. Steve is the
UK & European Course Enablement
Manager for SkyGolf , “I will keep you
posted on course changes & updates for
SkyCaddie Players”.
His 140 characters of witty comment
are entertaining, amusing, bold and
somewhat refreshing. Steve is so
confident in what he does he literally
puts his mouth where his money is.
Steve regularly tweets to over eight
thousand followers about his activity
all over Europe. Steve is your eyes
on the course meticulously updating
any changes from the smallest detail
to major revamps “Imagine paying
out for an all singing dancing GPS &
4” HD, with wrong info & detail, it’s
what you will get UNLESS you buy a
@SkyCaddie”. We decided we would
go and see for ourselves so on his
latest tour of Scotland we caught up
with Steve at Kirkhill in the west and
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subsequently The Royal Musselburgh
in the east. Steve says “you may know
every bunker, water hazard, run out
& green on your course, thankfully
SkyCaddie has all this detail for
courses you don’t know because I go
out and physically update them”.
Sure enough armed with his
measuring equipment and a pair of
decent shoes we stood (from our
buggy) and watched him physically
pace out those changes. We saw how
the new ditch on the 13th at Kirkhill
now appeared on the mapping
software which Steve assures us
will be live and available to then
download on all Skycaddie devices
within a week or so. We also bumped
into other distance measuring device
users asking Steve if he was going
to update their device to which he
replied unfortunately he wasn’t. Some
Skycaddie users then gleefully trotted
past. GMag asked the Skycadddie
users how they felt about the £30 a
year subscription fee,
the response “it’s well worth the money
as we enjoy visiting other courses here
and abroad. Skycaddie makes my
time on the course a better playing
experience as we get the most out of
the time on course.” Well you can’t
say any better than that really. See
if you can catch Steve on his travels
he has some keen offers for existing
Skycaddie users. Last time we heard
he was giving away balls to those
he met. We are convinced. 3 GMag
team members have subsequently
purchased independently their own
Skycaddie GPS devices.
So on behalf of Steve – “Golf Clubs,
Course Managers, Pros, if your Club
is planning changes over this coming
winter please let @SkyCaddie know
early #planningvisits”
Ed NB this is not a paid feature.
This is our opinion and we are
sticking to it.
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