Im looking at golf GPS systems. For a number of reasons, I've narrowed it down to Skycaddie SG5  vs  Garmin Approach G5 vs Sonnocaddie 300. My club offers a $75 discount on the skycaddie which offsets some of the membership fee.   Anybody here own one of these and what do you think? I'm particulary interested in hearing about the Garmin G5 since it's fairly new. Love the idea you can touch anywhere on the screen to get projected yarage on Garmin. I like that Sonnocaddie is very customizable and you can add/change markers on the course. Of course, skycaddie boasts it's accuracy, it's time tested and its $75 off.  I want to use it at the range but I have not read anywhere that you can mark your own course with the Garmin. I'm not at all interested in pinseeker / laser finder / bushnall / binocular type equipment.

Also looking for a gps so interested in any all the feedback on this. thanks

Regarding uPro, are you able to mark off spots on the course or create your own course? I really want to use this at the driving range and plan to “create” my own course of a driving range by marking off locations of all the targets. This allows you to know your exact distance every time you go back to the range, no matter where they have you hitting from. I couldn't find anywhere that the uPro has this feature which is why I was looking at skycaddie and Sonnocaddie.

Mark, thanks for the feedback, Im in US and I already checked the list of courses. It pretty much has all the ones I play. Thanks for the heads up.

Just dowloaded a program for my phone (Motorolla Q9C) called Free Caddie from freecaddie.com . the basic version is free, pro version is one time fee of $25. They have bunch of courses (all next to me in brooklyn, ny) on their website to download.

I'll be testing it this saturday and post a little review.

As promised, here is my review of FreeCaddie for Windows Mobile. First, a disclaimer: I don't work nor know anyone associated with the company making this product ;-). So I went to play Douglaston golf course in queens, ny. Had the course loaded, along with others from around my area, well in advance. On the first tee it was showing the same yardage as the marker and there after it was pin point on every hole. On 17th tee box had a little comparing to the “golf ginnie” and turned out that I had exact yardage that the ground marker was showing unlike the ginnie which added few yards. Also a nice feature of the free non limited trial was the shot measure. In the end I liked this thing so much that I decided to spend 25 bucks for the pro version.

Hopefully you can find this helpful.

According to their website these are the differences:

I just added a GPS/Rangefinder catagory for your bag.

On the subject of phone apps, yesterday I used this one…

http://swingbyswing.com/

Only available for blackberry and iphone, and best of all is free.

It uses google maps to load up the course, (so you need internet on the course) and shows your position on the map. This allows you to click on a bunker/pond/hazard on the map, and it shows your distance to that point, and also from that point to the green.

Only shows distance to centre of green however, so no front and back measurements. (though you can find the distance to front using the same method as finding distance to hazards)

You can map your own courses via their website, which only takes around 10 minutes.

The only down side, is it is a pretty new app, and is a little hit and miss to weather it works or you get an error, but it certainly has potential.

Give it a try, your'e not going to lose anything even if it don't work or you don't like it.

After trying several I went with this one.

http://www.caltonhillgolf.com/

It was the most accurate.  I use free caddie if the other does not have the course but on all the ones that I have tried it on its consistaly 10 yards off.