GolfLogix: Golf GPS User Guide for: BlackBerry Curve 8310, 8330, 8350i, 8800, 8820, 8830, 8900 Version 1.0 Software Release 1.0 1
Table of Contents Topic Page Topic Page Getting Started Statistics Downloading the GolfLogix Application 4 Statistic and Scoring Features 16 Optimal Settings 5 Statistics Tab 18 Membership Current Round (View & Edit Stats) 19 GolfLogix Guest 9 Previous Rounds 23 Annual 9 Cumulative Stats 23 Play Golf View Online Performance 24 Search for My Course 10 Support Hazards-Layups Screen 12 Contact GolfLogix Support 25 Green Screen 13 FAQs 25 Measure My Shot 14 Send to a Friend 25 2
Table of Contents (continued) Topic Page Support Update Par Data on Scorecard 25 Setup Set Defaults 26 Registration Info 27 In My Bag (Customize Clubs) 28 If this user guide does not answer all of your questions please call our customer service department at toll-free 1-877-977-0162 option 1. We are open Monday - Sunday from 7:00am to 5:00pm PST. 3
Getting Started: Downloading the GolfLogix Application The GolfLogix application can be downloaded to your BlackBerry Curve three different ways, each having the same end result. Visit our website at www.golfgps.com and select BlackBerry Curve at the top of the home page. Then press the Download Free button to access our download page. From the download page you have three options to choose from 4
Getting Started: Optimal Settings Battery Life: To optimize the battery-life on your BlackBerry Curve while using the GolfLogix GPS application on the course: 1. IMPORTANT: Adjust your screen brightness to less than 50%. Press the Options icon on your Curve, select the screen/keyboard option, and then scroll down to the Backlight Brightness option Select the Backlight brightness with your trackball and scroll down to at least 50%, once you have selected your desired backlight setting press the back key. You will then be prompted to save your changes. 5
2. IMPORTANT: Always start your rounds with a 100% fully-charged battery. Battery Life: To optimize the battery life on your BlackBerry Curve while using the GolfLogix GPS application on the course: 3. External Battery Chargers can be used as a backup source during your round. A top-of-the line external battery charger is available at GolfGPS.com and members receive discounted pricing on all GolfLogix accessories. 6
Getting Started: Optimal Settings Battery Life: To optimize the battery-life on your BlackBerry Curve while using the GolfLogix GPS application on the course: 1. IMPORTANT: Be sure your location services are on, and finding coordinates (Note: Finding coordinates is not always available on all networks.) Press the Options icon on your Curve, select the Advanced Options option, and then scroll down to the GPS option Once in the GPS option be sure your location services are set to ON not E911 only. If you can refresh your GPS please do so by selecting the menu button. 7
Getting Started: Optimal Settings (continued) GPS Accuracy: To optimize the GPS signals on your BlackBerry Curve, while on the course: 2. Use a mount or case like shown below, so your BlackBerry Curve always has a clear view of the sky. The mounts and cases shown below are available at GolfGPS.com and members receive discounted pricing on all GolfLogix accessories. 8
Membership: Guest & Annual Memberships 1. GolfLogix Guest. Press this option if you want to try the GolfLogix application for free on your Curve for 24-hours. The 24-hour trial starts when you first download a golf course and select a starting hole. 2. Become a GolfLogix Member. Press this option if you are ready to become an Annual GolfLogix Member. You will be prompted to enter your member code to activate your phone. To receive a member code you need to sign up and pay online at www.golfgps.com. All of our Guests can upgrade to our Annual Membership at the end of their 24-hour free trial period using two methods: a) You can sign up online at www.golfgps.com. b) An email will be sent to you with a link to Become a GolfLogix Member on our website, and then enter your Member code in the application to activate your Annual Membership on your Curve. 9
Play Golf: Search for My Course Course Selection. The GolfLogix application gives you immediate wireless access to more than 24,000+ golf courses mapped around the world so there isn t any syncing or loading with a computer. There are two ways to search for a golf course, either by your current location or an optimized search through our entire golf course list. My Current Location. Pressing this option will show you the closest courses sorted by your current location. Select a course from the list to download and start playing golf. Course List. Pressing this option will allow you to sort through the entire GolfLogix database of golf courses. Select a Country, then a State/Province, then look at all of the golf courses in a City or type in course names to filter the results. Select a course from the final list to download and start playing golf. 10
Scoring and Stat-Tracking Options. This screen will show before you start your round. Pressing Yes will allow you to keep your score and track your stats during this round. The Enter My Stats and Score screen will automatically appear when you are finished with each hole. Press No and you will not see the scoring and stat screen in between each hole.. 11
Play Golf: Hazard-Layups Screen Hazard-Layups Screens. These screens display all of the hazards, layups, and the green center yardages on Par 4 and Par 5 holes. The To Green Center line will remain on the top of this screen at all times. Please note: GPS calculates a straight line distance from where you are standing to the center of the green whereas tee box plates read down the center of the fairway to pivot points on the hole and then to the center of the green. Therefore, GPS distances and tee box plates will never match up on Par 4 and Par 5 tee boxes. When your location gets within 150 yards of a hazard-layup point, that hazard-layup will automatically disappear from the list and the remaining hazard-layups on the hole will move up the screen. The remaining hazard-layups can always be seen by scrolling the track ball down from the last showing hazardlayups line. When the golfer is within 200 yards of the center of the green, this screen will change to a Green Screen. 12
Play Golf: Green Screen Green Screens. These screens always display the front-centerback distances to the green when you are within 200 yards of the center of the green or playing a Par 3 hole. You can use the Previous and Next buttons on all Play screens to view other targets on your existing holes or to move to a different hole. 13
Play Golf: Measure My Shot Measure My Shot. At the bottom of all of the Hazards-Layups and Green screens, you can activate the Measure My Shot feature by pressing the Space Bar on your phone. This feature will calculate the distance from where you hit your ball to where it landed and then log which club you hit. Pressing Reset My Shot stops the Measure My Shot calculation without logging a club. 14
Measure My Shot (Continued) Log My Club. After pressing Log My Club use the picker wheel to highlight which club you hit, then press Continue Playing which will take you back to the appropriate Hazard- Layups and Green screens. Pressing the Statistics icon at the bottom of the Hazard- Layups and Green screens will take you to the screens where you can view all of your club distances. The names of your golf clubs that are showing in the picker wheel can be edited by pressing the Setup icon, then selecting In My Bag. This can be done prior to your round of golf. 15
Statistics: Statistic and Scoring Features Enter My Stats-Score The Enter My Stats-Scores screen will appear when you are finished with each hole. Each statistic on the BlackBerry Curve is entered on one screen. Once you highlight your option and press enter on the track ball the next statistics screen will automatically come up. There are six screens in total. The My Score page defaults to the par on the hole you are currently playing. Use the trackball to scroll and highlight your score. The # of Putts page always defaults to 2 putts. Use the trackball to scroll and highlight your number of putts on this hole. The Fairway Hit? question defaults to Yes. If your first shot on this hole landed in the fairway, you can leave this on Yes and continue to the next question. If your first shot did not land in fairway, select No Left or No Right based on where it landed, then continue to the next question. 16
Statistic and Scoring Features (Continued) Scoring and Stat Features (continued) The Green in Regulation? question always defaults on Yes. If you landed on the green with two putt attempts remaining before reaching the par set for this hole, then you can leave the answer on Yes, if not select No. The Chips/Sand picker wheel always defaults to 0. Use the trackball to scroll and highlight the number of Chips/Sand shots you hit on this hole. The Penalties picker wheel always defaults to 0. Use the trackball to scroll and highlight the number of Penalty shots you want to record on this hole. Once you have entered the penalties screen and pressed enter on the trackball, the application will take you to the next hole s hazard and layup screen. 17
Statistics: Statistics Tab My Statistics and Scores The Statistics and Scores screen can be accessed at any time by clicking the Menu button and then selecting the statistics option. In this area you can edit or view all rounds that you have stored within the application. Current Round BlackBerry Menu Button The Current Round option will let you access all your statistics of your current round of golf. Previous Rounds The Previous Rounds option will let you access all your statistics of any previous round recorded. Cumulative Stats The Cumulative Stats option will give you an overall summary of all your rounds combined. Sync Score-Stat will sync your stats to your personal Annual Member website located at www.golflogix.com. 18
Statistics: Current Round When you enter the Current Round option you will have several options you can perform. My Score Card This option will allow you to see your current round score in a professional score card view. 19
Current Round (Continued) Edit My Current Round This option will allow you to edit any stats you have entered throughout the course of your current round. When this option is pressed it will bring up the same Enter My Stats screen described in the previous section. From here you can make any changes and your stats and score cards will be updated instantly. Note: If you press the Edit My Current Round button while in the middle of a round. The edit screen will pull up with the current hole you are on. (Example: If you press the Edit My Current Round on Hole 14, then Hole 14 will be the first hole displayed for editing.) 20
Current Round (Continued) My Club Performance Every time you measure a shot and log it with a specific club, the results are stored here. GolfLogix will average each club for you, and even record what hole you hit the club on. If you click the name of club then it will display individual club stats for each hole. 21
Current Round (Continued) My Current Round Summary This option will combine all of your recorded stats from your current and all previous rounds. It will summarize all statistics and scoring. 22
Statistics: Previous Rounds Cumulative Stats When the cumulative stats option is pressed the application will combine all of your recorded rounds into one summarized report. 23
Statistics: View Online Performance Becoming a GolfLogix member allows you to sync your stats to your very own personal website. This will allow you to view and manage your statistics from the convenience of your work or home computer. Visit the link below to login and view your online scores and stats: http://golflogix.com/website/memberlogin.aspx When you login, you will have all the same functions of the previous rounds and cumulative round options. You can view all your stats and even email them to a friend. 24
Support: Golflogix Support Please use the Email GolfLogix Support to ask us any questions or provide us with feedback. FAQs Our Frequently Asked Questions will address many items that may come up throughout your round. Send to a Friend If you like our application, please send it to a friend! Update Par on Scorecard GolfLogix has over 24,000 courses mapped and we realize how often courses update or change their layouts. If you ever play a course in which the par data is wrong you have the ability to update it instantly. Once you have finished your update press the Submit to GolfLogix button so that we can correct our master file for future rounds. When you have updated the information, simply press the play button to see the changes immediately. 25
Setup: Set Defaults From the setup tab you can access the default options. From here you can set some general options to your user preferences. Distance Unit - This option will allow you to change the measuring system from yards to meters. Score-Stats With this option you can turn the scoring features ON or OFF. When the option is set to OFF the scoring pages will not appear in between holes until you turn the option back ON. (NOTE: At the beginning of each round you will be prompted to confirm whether or not you want to utilize the Score-Stats features) Backlight The Backlight feature will allow you to turn ON or OFF the screens backlight timeout on your curve. 26
Setup: Registration Info From the setup tab you can access and edit the registration information you filled out when first registering the application. Golfer s Email Update your email address. Golfer s Full Name Update your name. Golfer s Phone Update your phone number. Once you have updated all or any fields, press the blue Update button. 27
Setup: In My Bag From the setup tab you can access the In My Bag option. This option will allow you to customize your club selection list, as well as custom name each club. Delete a Club Select a club and press enter on the track ball. The club will become highlighted in blue, then press the in the top right hand corner. A confirmation message will appear asking if you want to delete the club. 28
In My Bag (Continued) Add a Club and Custom Name your Clubs Click on the Blue + sign in the upper right hand corner to add or edit the name of any clubs you wish. When you add your clubs click the Save button and your club list will be populated with the changes. 29