Game Golf Digital Shot Tracking System, Red/Black

I love this thing. It easily tracks my distances and stats, and most importantly, my score. I'm notorious for spacing out after a bad shot or after a few cans of swing lube, and forgetting to count a stroke or 3. Game Golf takes care of everything for you. The main gripe is that you have to tap the club before (or after) every swing, but its such a minor inconvenience that it has now become a part of my pre-shot routine. I don't even think about it anymore. And I love coming home, plugging the game golf in and seeing my distances and scores. You can edit anything that isn't right and the thing will even detect the shot for you if you DO forget to tap. There have been instances where I had to start of the 10th, or had to skip a hole and come back and I was worried that the unit would get confused, but it didn't miss a beat. Along with my distance watch, this is my "can't play without" load out. I left it home one round, and hated my round so much that I'll never forget it again! My only PERSONAL gripe is that the battery on my unit seems to drain pretty fast. I'll charge it up, play my round and it says "low" when I get home. Its not a BIG deal, since I charge it before every round, but I DO worry that one day the battery won't make it through a full round. Maybe I should contact Active Mind....

This is a good product for the really serious golfer that will analyze his game on his computer after his round. The technology does not work while using the device. The application on your phone is useless because the shots recorded can not been seen on your phone until after the round is completed and imaged in on your PC. They have a new version of the product coming out that should be much better and user friendly. I wouldn't recommend this model. Wait for the new one.

I've used GameGolf for 10 rounds, and while it's certainly not perfect and improvements can be made, it's a very good first gen tracking system. First, be aware of older review of their site from pre-June. GameGolf has updated their website and data that they report since that time, so the review may be outdated. You can easily create an account to see what kind of data it will report. Certainly the main feature of this product is to get average and median distances for your clubs. Yes, you can do this now with a number of smartphone apps, but in my experience, the inconvenience of carrying a phone with you (I don't like a big device in my pocket when I swing), and having it charged to boot (GPS drains phones) is a real problem. Where GameGolf shines is the ease of use in "tagging" your shot. Touch the tag to the bottom of the device, feel the vibration and hear the beep, and you can ignore it. The main letdown I've found is GPS accuracy. In my testing, the main problem is GPS lag... it takes a few seconds for this thing to realize where you are. If you ride a cart, it could be 30 yards off if you immediately get out of your cart and tag the shot. While I've only had that happen a couple of times, I've changed my routine to tag the shot after I've made it. This gives the unit a few extra seconds (probably 10-15) to settle into your location. Since I've been doing that, I have far fewer edits to my rounds. I do look forward to continuous improvements to the website and data analysis, and like others would like to see some raw data dumps available. By the way, I'm a 3 index, and while I know my "good" shot yardages very well, it's interesting to see all shots rolled into one, and has helped me on club selection in the process. ***UPDATE 2018*** I now have 292 rounds in the GameGolf System. I would have more but my belt clip broke this season and I took a while before requesting a new one. They have changed the design of the belt clip, so for those who had a problem previously with the unit falling off, this has been fixed. But here's the problem. The data collected is fine. It's really not that complicated: Here's the location, here's the club. Calculate to next location tagged, repeat. The problem is what you do with that data afterward. Unfortunately, they haven't done a substantial update to their website in a couple of years, and they STILL do not have any way to download your own raw data. The issues/features with the website need to be fixed: 1) You need some sort of trending over time. How many GIRS (or FW, or putts, or scoring average etc) have I hit each month? Show me a chart, you have the data. 2) "Strokes Gained" is *USELESS*, especially with putting. The actual Strokes Gained metric developed by Mark Broadie is excellent, however, GG hasn't applied it correctly. The way the GG site analyzes it is vs other players on the GG system. Here's the problem: Most people are NOT very picky with how they tag and maintain their data, so you get comparisons against bad data. For example, let's say you have a 30 foot putt, roll it up a foot away, and pick up, and you forget to tag the gimme. Later you go in and "add putt". The GG system has no idea how far the 2nd putt was, so it takes that 30 footer and divides it into 2, and you have 2 15' putts. Unless the player goes in and marks the hole location and alters the mapping so that the 2nd putt is accurate, their dataset now shows a player making a 15' putt. This *complete* wrecks the Strokes Gained Metric. You can tell others don't tag data properly by looking at their rounds in the system of those who you follow. 3) Still no raw download of the data. C'mon guys, this is a huge opportunity to have add-ons to your hardware without you having to do any of the work. Open your API up. 4) also, can you guys NOT default to showing "all rounds" every time you go into metrics for a specific club? Let the user decide what the default values are. So no matter which GameGolf device you use, EVERYBODY is going to have these shortcomings, because we're all using the same website.

I was worried about one thing: would I remember to tag? Answer is simple. I can't. I can't remember to tag every single shot. But those with high focus on the golf (meaning you can't remember anything else than your perfect swing) don't have to worry. This device actually detects swing and place a marker on the map with - 'I know you had a swing there - just tell me which club' After completing the map, I get to know the true distance of clubs and the risks. For example, I am a high handicapper and not a long hitter but sometimes my 190 yard club 3 hybrid can overshoot to 210. Next time I will use 4 hybrid in a back pin situation to reduce the risk. On a steep uphill, my 4 hybrid hit 152 yard. So it's clever to use it over my 6 iron. Par 5 fairway 2nd shots are hit better with 6 irons than hybrids since I fail to hit it well with hybrids while 6 iron shots keep fairways with 150 - 160 yard distance. I try to gain 20 - 30 yards and risk 40% chance of losing distance or going into a rough. I get to know true distance of my driver. Now I need to complain. 1. the tags are not durable. I already broke two tags. The cap gets lost and the RFID film is gone on my driver and putter. 2. The map program on the browser to edit the round is sluggish and often become unresponsive. This looks like a server side problem 3. If the device detected my swing anyway why doesn't it buzz me after my swing so I can remember to tag it?? I want to give 5 star but 1 star off due to the durability and inconvenience caused by the software performance issue.