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 Anyone
who has an interest in his or her golf game besides, "Did I
hit it straight this time?" will find some use in Golfwits
Pro. This useful little program aims to help you document every
drive, chip, pitch, and putt so that you can improve your game.
We don't think that's too lofty a goal. You can use Golfwits
solely on your desktop PC, and you can also sync it up with your
Pocket PC (Windows CE) handheld device so you can take Golfwits
with you while you're on the course.
It also comes with a free Palm Organizer version that you can
download from the Golfwits Web site. We chose to do the install
for Palm Organizers and sync Golfwits up with our Handspring
Visor Deluxe.
There are notes about this all over the Golfwits.com Web
site, but just in case you miss them, be sure to do a
HotSync with your handheld twice, so that it picks up both the
program and the maps. Which leads us to the maps.
They are really the strength of the Golfwits program. From the
Golfwits Web site, you can access thousands of course maps all
over the country (as well as a few other countries including
Canada). A quick search for courses in the Seattle area turned
up nearly every course we were familiar with--only one of our
favorites was missing.
However, the Golfwits folks seem open to suggestions, so if you
request a map of your favorite course, they will most likely
produce it. Mastering Golfwits--especially on your
handheld--will take some time.
We had to sit down with it for a while before we got the hang of
how to access statistics and record our ball position and ball
path on the course, so we advise that you work with it and the
online manual a bit before you hit the fairways. (Not to
mention, it took us a while to figure out how to make the maps
we downloaded sync up with our Visor--again, read the manual
carefully.)
But when on the course, once you're done recording ball position
and club used, Golfwits calculates everything else for you:
remaining distance to the hole, score, and overall game
statistics. You can also input data into Golfwits on your
desktop, but this seems like a secondary function. The biggest
benefit of the desktop version seems to be checking statistics
once you've completed a round on the course, and using that
information to improve your game.
But if you're using Golfwits without a PDA, you can print out a
Pro Book of your selected course from the Golfwits interface,
take this scorecard with you, and then come back and input the
game manually into Golfwits. Another function that's pretty
impressive is the option to e-mail your game to friends--though
we only recommend this function if you actually played
well.
You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a utility that goes as in
depth into your game as Golfwits. In fact, we can't think of any
program that does quite what Golfwits does, making it an obvious
choice for anyone who cares this deeply about the game of golf.
--Ara Jane Olufson
Description:
Golfwits Pro 2.0 is software for the true golf aficionado. It
can be used with both handheld devices or desktop PCs. The
Golfwits Course Map is at the heart of Golfwits.
Each map is a dynamic graphical interface for recording your
game. With a tap on the screen or a click on the mouse, you
place each shot on a map of your actual course, indicating the
shape of the shot and the club used. Golfwits does the rest,
calculating shot distances and scores, keeping statistics on
your play, as well as automatically tracking side games.
Golfwits will track your ball position on your course map,
record flight and club used for each shot, and check distances
to green and course hazards. It provides complete Pro-level
statistics automatically. After a round,
Golfwits can print a scorecard and trophy sheet of the entire
game. You can also e-mail a Viewer file of your round for others
to see. Select maps from thousands available online, or make
your own maps with the powerful Mapwits Course Builder that is
included.
Although the ultimate experience is realized when you take
Golfwits to the course on a Windows-powered Pocket PC, people
without these devices can use Golfwits PC on a desktop or laptop
computer. Golfwits prints a Pro Book of the course that you can
take with you and use to record your round.
Simply transfer the round to your computer, view Pro-level
statistics, print your scorecard, or print a trophy sheet that
graphically displays your entire game. Golfwits.com has over
4,000 courses available for download.
Features:
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Golf
improvement software application for handheld and desktop
PCs
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Record
ball position, distance, shot shape, and club used for every
shot
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Track
rounds for up to 4 players simultaneously
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Customize
your stats to track virtually any aspect of your game
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E-mail
a Viewer file of your round for others to see
System
requirements:
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Palm-size
and Pocket PC:
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Windows
CE OS 2.0 or later
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2
MB RAM
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Microsoft
Windows 95, 98, NT 4, or 2000:
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16
MB RAM
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4
MB hard disk space
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