Golf Caddie Help
Starting Out
The first thing to do in Golf Caddie is to set up at least one player and make that player the Pre owner. The Pre owner can be assigned under the preferences tab and a default set of clubs will be assigned to this person.
Golf Caddie Preferences
There are several preferences that can be set in Golf Caddie. As mentioned above, setting the Pre owner is one of those preferences. Distances can be changed from yards to meters. The will change the measurement in the GPS data screen. There is only currently one theme and that is the dark theme. Hopefully other themes will come later on. You can change the clubs that you have in your golf bag. Fourteen clubs can be selected into your bag and it's also possible to modify the minimum and maximum distance you hit each club. This is used in the GPS screen to provide a preferred club to hit based upon the distance left to the green. It will provide a preferred club for the front, centre and back.
Players
Golf Caddie allows to set up an unlimited number of players so that their statistics and handicaps can be updated by Golf Caddie. If a player has rounds that currently exist for them, they cannot be deleted until all the previous rounds for that player are also deleted.
Courses
Golf Caddie currently allows the ability to search for courses in the BBGPSGolf database (www.bbgpsgolf.com), and download them locally so that rounds of golf can be played even when out of coverage. New courses can be created at www.bbgpsgolf.com and current courses updated with tee information and GPS locations using google maps. When a course is downloaded to Golf Caddie any existing tees are downloaded and a set of holes created for each set of tees. The one piece of information that is missing from BBGPSGolf are the hole distances. Golf Caddie allows these to be updated manually by tapping on a course, choosing the appropriate tees and then editing the hole data. In addition, the hole handicap and par information can also be updated to correct any errors. When downloading a course to Golf Caddie, if there are no tees that currently exist then Golf Caddie will create a default set of Blue tees. It should also be noted that any tees that do not have course and slope ratings will result in rounds of golf played using those tees will not be used in calculating and updating handicaps, until the slope and course ratings are added.
New Round
This is the crux of Golf Caddie. To start a new round at least one player and one course must be defined. When starting a new round, first choose the course, then the set of tees to play, then up to four players can be selected to play the round of golf. The option to play 9 holes or 18 holes is provided, as is the option to either play the front 9 or the back 9. Once these options have all been selected hitting the continue button will take you into the scoring screen. There are many options available in this screen:
- Keeping track of the number of shots per hole.
- Keeping track of the number of putts per hole.
- Keeping track of hitting a fairway from the tee shot.
- Keeping track of hitting a green in regulation, which is done automatically but can be changed.
- Moving forward and backwards through the holes using the arrow icons in the upper left and right.
- Going directly to hole by tapping the hole number in the upper left.
- Seeing a detailed score card for any of the 4 players by tapping on their name.
- Obtaining GPS information for distances to the front, center and back of the green, as well as up to 5 more points of interest if added, by tapping on the satellite icon in the lower left.
- Marking the distance of the tee shot.
- View the current status of any side games that are in progress.
- Going directly to the end of round screen by tapping exit icon in the lower right. This can be used to save a round at any point in time. Incomplete rounds will not be used in handicap calculations but they can be viewed in the previous rounds screen.
At the end of a round an end of round screen is displayed to provide totals for the round for all 4 players. The total score, score to par, Adjusted score (score - handicap), number of greens in regulation hit and the number of firways hit are all shown. The round can be saved to the Golf Caddie database at this point where by it will be used in handicap calculations (if it meets the criteria), will show up in the previous rounds screen and will also be used to display statistics.
Previous Rounds
Any round that has been saved to the local Golf Caddie database will show up in the previous rounds screen. A list is show in descending date order so that the newest rounds show up first. Clicking on a round will show an overview of all the players that played that round, how many holes were scored, and what the score for each player was. Tapping on a players name will bring up the detailed score card for the player.
Statistics
Any round that has been saved to the local Golf Caddie database will be used as part of player statistics, regardless of whether a full round was played or not. Any player that is currently in the Golf Caddie database can be selected to view their statistics.