IZZO Golf Swami Golf GPS Watch, Black

Works easily and accuracy of yardage is good.

I have owned and found that this product as well as most others in the Izzo line are NOT reliable. This GPS watch does not read accurate yardages, many time it reads the wrong fairways and seizes up when I try to reboot it. It does not hold a charge even when it shows fully charged - when starting two play, many times it only works for a hole or two and other times it just blanks out and cannot be restarted. This is my 5th in a series of GPS models from this company and they have all failed but onw which lasted 2 years. The last portable unit I purchased before this one seized up during my second hole played.... it could not be restarted or even shut down.. I had to return it while the screen was ON AND STILL DISPLAYING but in a seized position. I'm giving up on this company. I tried to go more economically by buying Izzo's less expensive units but you get what you pay for. I tried returning yet another unit after malfunctioning again, I missed the return deadline by 2 days - another $75 wasted!! I would have been better off buying a Golf Buddy or Garmin for 2 - 2 1/2 times the price and have them last. My golfing family went with those & years later have not had a problem with those two companies. Save your money & return aggravation and go for the better units. You will be better off in the short and long run.

After four years of great service the GPS won't connect to the system, all the other features are working fine. It is a nice and inexpensive golf GPS watch and as accurate as my range finder. I would buy again but I'm not sure if the disconnect from GPS is the watch, or maybe because is an older model IZZO may have disconnected the GPS feature for the watch (model).

It is a very affordable golf watch and yet performs fairly accurately.

Bought this because my trusty Garmin S2 was finally starting to give up the ghost after years of trusty service. As the headline states, I do like this watch. It is pretty accurate. Standing on the 150 marker on any given hole at my club and the watch reads 150. The additional information about layups and distance to and over penalty areas is a nice touch.The reason I didn't rate this 5 stars is three fold:-- Documentation is a joke. The quick start guide that comes in the package is OK. Small print but I was able to read it. One must go to the IZZO web site for the user guide and low and behold it is a PICTURE on a web page!! You can blow it up so it is readable, but really. How expensive is it to create a PDF download?? Geez!!-- IZZO "strongly" recommends doing a firmware update, then a course update before using. The software to do that is a little clunky. I wasn't quite sure whether or not the firmware update worked, but I charged ahead and did a course update. Why the latest versions of these are not already on the watch which I believe is a new product is beyond me.-- Sometimes it takes a bit of time to get a GPS lock at the course, definitely longer than my old Garmin.All that aside, the watch does work very well and gives me more information than my previous watch(es). I haven't tried the fitness or scoring options so I can't speak to that.Finally I was blown away at how good the battery life is and how fast it charges. On a typical 18 hole day it finishes with 3 (out of 4) bars. When I get home and charge it it shows battery strength of 70% to 77% and charges to 100% in about 15 minutes. For a comparison, my Garmin S2 would have about 20% left and take many hours to charge.Especially at this price point I recommend this watch.10-20-21 Update:Hope you can read down this far. The watch lasted for a little less than 2 years. Bought 1/2020. Stopped working this morning. It picks up the satellite -- I know this because it resets the time to Eastern Standard Time, but does not list any golf courses. No use now. The fact that I found this out on the golf course this morning in a match made it even more irritating. Going to spend more for a Garmin. Hopefully it will last longer. Re-rated this one down to a 3 since it did work for 20 months.

This is a handly little gadget. Perfect watch for golf and very easy to use. It loads courses very quickly.

It works, difficult to use the other options. For the price I figured it's a deal. Takes a while to get the course's up.

My dad loves to golf so I bought this watch for him as a birthday present. He was very excited that he didn’t have to use the handheld device that he normally does. The battery never stayed charged no matter how long he would leave it on the charger the night before. It then stopped working altogether. SUPER disappointed because my hopes were high!

—No vienen cargados todos los campos de golf del estado de Queretaro, México—No explican cómo se cargan al reloj campos de golf nuevos

The watch did not fully charge - contacted Swami who advised they do not have warranties in the UK. So sent it back to Amazon for a refund and bought another brand watch a similar price which is working fine.

Peccato che non ci sia il campo di Lerici!!!!! Grande delusione visto che gioco su quel campo!!!

Have used it once and seems to work perfectly

My first time to use of IZZO, they didn't have the golf course I was playing at!!!