Game Golf Digital Shot Tracking System, Red/Black

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 GameGolf has updated their website and data that they report since that time, so the review may be outdated.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 purchased the GAME GOLF and played four rounds with it before deciding it wasn't worth the trouble. The GAME GOLF uses GPS location and what appears to be RFID tags to estimate the location and distance of golf shots. You probably know that if you are reading this review.If you are diligent about tapping each club to the GAME GOLF, that eliminates one problem that I had. I was not able to get that into my pre-shot routine and would question whether I had or hadn't done it, would walk back a few steps to tag it, etc. I found it more disruptive that I would have liked.I found that I had to a lot of editing post-round when GAME GOLF imported the round. Some courses were more accurate than others but it is certainly not without post-round editing from my experience. It is really only useful for full shots. It will track putts but doesn't know where the pin is so you don't get any idea of putt distance, miss distance, etc. This isn't part of what GAME GOLF advertises but it does limit what it is useful for. The GPS location accuracy is a bit iffy as I found numerous times where the tee shot was recorded from well off of the tee box. This could be a problem with the registration of the airborne image to the GPS coordinates but in any case, it wasn't spot on very often.After my fourth round I went to download the GAME GOLF to my PC and found the charging cover had been lost. This is tethered to the unit but from day one I felt this would be a weak point in the design. Unfortunately I was correct and it is gone. This charging cover is difficult to get open with a knife, etc. and really should be done differently. It is a bad design that is certainly causing their customers and their returns department some grief.In the end after four rounds I decided the $199 purchase price didn't return nearly enough to warrant keeping it. The charging cover breaking was the last straw. There are iPhone apps which will do this if you spend the time tapping it to tell it what club you hit. They may be a little more disruptive than the GAME GOLF but they are also far less than $199.I gave the GAME GOLF 3 stars. Some parts of the product are done well but the hardware and GPS accuracy are a weak point. The display of data also isn't great but that may be more of a personal preference.

So far the set up has been very difficult. The product idea seems great. The web site is very hard to navigate - when it works - the set up tag part cannot find the web page - which is a bit worrying. I am getting an error which says "Oops, the page you requested is not available" which makes the product hard to use. A message comes up which says that the certificate for the web site is out of date.The support centre is a low cost operation - so type a question and get 100s of irrelevant answers. if you have a couple of days to spare you can work out your own answers for the set up.