Shot Scope X5 Watch

[mikefrench]

I have found using the watch has eliminated a lot of laser usage for me...unless I'm in like a 9 iron or lower and want to attack a little more, I find it sufficient to just know the cover number to the front and then the middle and back. It has helped me tremendously navigate coming out of a jumpy lie, just knowing this is all I need to find green and here's where I can max out.

Have found exactly the same.

If I have a good enough view of the green and the pin to be able to determine whether it is front/middle/back (some courses don't use different coloured flags - and the ones that do I can never remember the correct one), or I'm close enough that I'm actually going for the pin, or at least a 15ft area around it then my laser stays in the bag.

I'm certainly not good enough to need anything more than what the watch gives me from any kind of distance.

 

[blazinden]

Had the x5 out today. It took two holes to find the course even after two hard resets. Usually finds the course immediately. It found the course finally on hole 3.

After it found the course, it only missed a few shots but surprised I had the issue this morning.

The course was added and I did turn the watch on while on the range.

 

[blazinden]

Played today. X5 found the course immediately. Only needed a few edits, so that's a plus today.

 

[USAF Retired]

Played today. X5 found the course immediately. Only needed a few edits, so that's a plus today.

Mine works pretty well every round also

 

[Canabuc]

Anybody have an issue where the charger doesn't clip on properly at the connector site?

 

[Canabuc]

For those of you who have had issues with the tags not being read properly. There is a fix but unfortunately it will require the tiny screwdriver that is needed to remove the watch band.
There is an antenna built into the band and sometimes the connector between the watch and the band where the antenna is can either get tarnished or loosened.

I managed to charge up my X5 watch and decided to give it a try today having not used it in some time. It was a disaster because the tag effectively could not be read unless I was basically touching the tag to the band itself. Normally it should automatically pick it up if it is within it an inch or two.

I had a screwdriver from the v3 days when I had bought a replacement strap and I unscrewed the strap and took some rubbing alcohol and clean the contact points and any dirt and debris away. I reattached everything in nature it was well secured and then did the tag Read test and it went from not being able to register it without a physical contact to the band to being able to contact it from a fall inch and a half away once again.

Overall shots scope has fantastic customer service and I think the products that they offer are overall great but unfortunately in both the X5 and the v5 some decisions made in the physical construction of the watch lead to supposed failures which don't usually happen on other watches of this type.

The connector is one of those weak areas. Even the poorly implemented alligator clip style from the previous watch would always work whereas here sometimes over time the connection loosens up and you don't always make good contact to charge up the watch.

On the v5 as great as the battery life is without a touch screen and the fact that it works quite good overall I find one of the buttons that is used the most which is the down bottom left button seems to stick somewhat and require much firmer presses to activate compared to the other ones and I expect it will fail at some point.

The touch screen implementation on the X5 as well as the scroll wheel button ended up not working out as well as originally had been planned.

Given when these came out I imagine the likely have a new version out on the horizon that hopefully will fix the issues with the touch sensitivity lag battery life etc as well as the charger. Ideally they would move to a usb-c type model which would make charging a universal thing and much easier not requiring proprietary cables...

 

[Brucem609]

Had the X5 out yesterday.
It did very well
However I did not properly attach the charger cable last night and this morning it was dead.
I plugged in the cable and let it charge.
When it came back on the date was Monday Dec 31.
I attached it to app and turned it off and off 3X.
Still Dec 31.
What to do what to do?

 

[Brucem609]

Had the X5 out yesterday.
It did very well
However I did not properly attach the charger cable last night and this morning it was dead.
I plugged in the cable and let it charge.
When it came back on the date was Monday Dec 31.
I attached it to app and turned it off and off 3X.
Still Dec 31.
What to do what to do?

Now the time changed to afternoon and it’s

Had the X5 out yesterday.
It did very well
However I did not properly attach the charger cable last night and this morning it was dead.
I plugged in the cable and let it charge.
When it came back on the date was Monday Dec 31.
I attached it to app and turned it off and off 3X.
Still Dec 31.
What to do what to do?

now it is the afternoon and the watch is acting as if it is AM. On Jan 1
This is really weird

 

[lambeau]

Now the time changed to afternoon and it’s

now it is the afternoon and the watch is acting as if it is AM. On Jan 1
This is really weird

try running a soft reset.

To perform a reset on your Shot Scope watch, follow these steps:

1. Press and hold the top-right button on the watch.
2. A countdown screen will appear—continue holding the button.
3. Keep holding until the countdown screen disappears and the watch resets.

This will perform a soft reset of the device and can be useful if the screen is unresponsive or if you're experiencing any minor technical issues.

https://x5support.shotscope.com/hc/en-us/articles/13787551594001-How-to-Reset-Your-Watch

 

[bsbmike]

I've continued to love my X5...the performance on course is flawless for me - yes it takes about 5-10 minutes to connect to satellite but that's not issue for me. Even with a putter grip where I can't fit the sensor, the tracking has been pretty flawless. Out of all the golf this year I've tracked it's missed 1 shot. That's pretty damn good if you ask me for something I don't need to remember to tap or have to keep my phone in my pocket or what have you.

The yardages have been spot on, and I said it to my dad recently...this watch has helped me play smarter which has led me to playing better. Knowing my cover number to the front or how far the back edge of the green is has been so helpful. I find myself using my laser less and less these days

 

[TheBionicGolfer]

Try closing the strap of your glove at an angle toward your index finger. It seems to create a gap where the Crown button is when I do that.

Two things I found about Auto putting. I really needed to take a couple of exaggerated, massive practice swings to have the position of my first putt be recorded somewhat correctly. Then, that really looked stupid doing it for tap-ins, so I just let those little undetected putts default to 2-foot putts. Putting, Auto or Manual, always seems to need editing to get the location correct of not only the putts, but the hole location. GPS just isn't accurate enough at this size and price point.

Does anyone know if there are golf watches out there that are actually sufficiently accurate so they record putting accurately?

Apart from the random idiosyncratic behaviour my X5 sometimes exhibits (too many disparate oddities to list here), the inaccuracies in recording my putt positions and hole locations are my biggest bugbear.
My V5 is exactly the same, so I know it’s not just my X5 (which is my second replacement from ShotScope after significant problems with earlier ones).

 

[MemeMaynard]

Does anyone know if there are golf watches out there that are actually sufficiently accurate so they record putting accurately?

Apart from the random idiosyncratic behaviour my X5 sometimes exhibits (too many disparate oddities to list here), the inaccuracies in recording my putt positions and hole locations are my biggest bugbear.
My V5 is exactly the same, so I know it’s not just my X5 (which is my second replacement from ShotScope after significant problems with earlier ones).

The issue with putting and the ability to track accurately is that the distance area is so finite versus yards. I use manual putting mode and don’t see many discrepancies when reviewing a round.

 

[mikefrench]

Does anyone know if there are golf watches out there that are actually sufficiently accurate so they record putting accurately?

Apart from the random idiosyncratic behaviour my X5 sometimes exhibits (too many disparate oddities to list here), the inaccuracies in recording my putt positions and hole locations are my biggest bugbear.
My V5 is exactly the same, so I know it’s not just my X5 (which is my second replacement from ShotScope after significant problems with earlier ones).

You won't just have this issue with Shotscope watches because the overriding limitation is that of GPS which is limited to about 2m/6ft in accuracy with good visibility/signal. You would need military grade GPS to get to a better level of accuracy.

In fact Shotscope uses a dual band GPS (as I think Garmin do also) to improve tracking and accuracy so you may find some golf/GPS watches perform worse.

In my mind as long as I can allocate the putt into one of the buckets for analysis (0-3ft, 3-6ft, 6-9ft etc) then I'm pretty comfortable and don't need it to the last inch.

 

[MemeMaynard]

Two good days with the X5 last week. Not a single missed tagged shot and no issues from a battery standpoint point. I was able to get two rounds plus a few holes on a single charge. I used the GPS only feature during a shamble and alt shot round and enjoyed it. Having front, middle and back numbers was a great way to discuss the next shot with my partner.
Syncing the rounds to my SS account was simple and only needed to adjust a few shots from rough to fairway and vice versa.

Time to charge the X5 up and head back out to the course.

 

[lambeau]

I played 27 holes yesterday and was able to get through the 6 hours of golf plus download it without recharging my X5. It died on the drive home. I'm sure my V5 would have outlasted it, but that was plenty fine as I didn't need to juice it up between nines

 

[MemeMaynard]

I played 27 holes yesterday and was able to get through the 6 hours of golf plus download it without recharging my X5. It died on the drive home. I'm sure my V5 would have outlasted it, but that was plenty fine as I didn't need to juice it up between nines

The battery life is so good on this with it being a touchscreen.

 

[Daluteh]

The issue with putting and the ability to track accurately is that the distance area is so finite versus yards. I use manual putting mode and don’t see many discrepancies when reviewing a round.

I just moved to manual putting and I like it. Once I get home I will check the accuracy vs automatic but I thought it was an easy transition.

 

[Daluteh]

I played 27 holes yesterday and was able to get through the 6 hours of golf plus download it without recharging my X5. It died on the drive home. I'm sure my V5 would have outlasted it, but that was plenty fine as I didn't need to juice it up between nines

Played 18 and it was 58% after we were done. Just a smidge over a 3 hour round.

 

[MemeMaynard]

I just moved to manual putting and I like it. Once I get home I will check the accuracy vs automatic but I thought it was an easy transition.

Manual putting is all I know. I find it much more accurate and I’ve built it in as part of my pre shot routine and it is seamless.

 

[Daluteh]

Manual putting is all I know. I find it much more accurate and I’ve built it in as part of my pre shot routine and it is seamless.

I have just 2 rounds now with it. My biggest thing so far is that I think the tap ins are going to be more accurate.

 

[Phil75070]

I just moved to manual putting and I like it. Once I get home I will check the accuracy vs automatic but I thought it was an easy transition.

I don't know if one method is more accurate than the other, but I have two issues with Manual putting. One is that I tend to forget to mark the location of my first putt all too often. Secondly, if my glove or wrist somehow hits that crown button and adds a putt that I did not take, there is no way to reduce the number of putts shown on the watch. I even tried adding putts all the way up to 9 hoping it would recycle back to 1, but it didn't. At least in Auto mode it defaults to 2, but you can add or remove the number of times you used the putter at the hole as needed.

 

[MemeMaynard]

I don't know if one method is more accurate than the other, but I have two issues with Manual putting. One is that I tend to forget to mark the location of my first putt all too often. Secondly, if my glove or wrist somehow hits that crown button and adds a putt that I did not take, there is no way to reduce the number of putts shown on the watch. I even tried adding putts all the way up to 9 hoping it would recycle back to 1, but it didn't. At least in Auto mode it defaults to 2, but you can add or remove the number of times you used the putter at the hole as needed.

I agree with the lack of being able to reduce the number of putts. I make it a habit to mark my first putt as soon as I mark my ball on the green.
As for deleting the putts it’s very easy to do when reviewing and posting the round.

 

[lambeau]

I haven't used manual putting since early last year. I like just not needing to think about it on the course and then just edit post round if it's off a bit. 18 flawless holes again today. I wish my golf was as good as this watch.

 

[Daluteh]

I don't know if one method is more accurate than the other, but I have two issues with Manual putting. One is that I tend to forget to mark the location of my first putt all too often. Secondly, if my glove or wrist somehow hits that crown button and adds a putt that I did not take, there is no way to reduce the number of putts shown on the watch. I even tried adding putts all the way up to 9 hoping it would recycle back to 1, but it didn't. At least in Auto mode it defaults to 2, but you can add or remove the number of times you used the putter at the hole as needed.

That’sa good point. I didn’t notice any added putts when I did it. I do my first putt when I get to it so I don’t forget.

 

[MikeG]

Does anyone know if I buy a new set of tags and I get them set up with each club, will that change anything in terms of stats/performance with my existing clubs?