Shot Scope X5 Tutorial: Navigation and Settings Explained

Introduction

In this video tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use this: the Shot Scope X5 golf watch. Now, we’re going to look at navigating the watch both as a standard day-to-day watch and as a golf watch. We’re also going to look at all of the key settings you need to know about when you’re using it as an everyday watch, and the settings you’ll need to make sure that you have set up properly before you play your round. We’ll initiate a round of golf on this device to show you golf mode and I’ll cover the key settings that you need to know about during your round when you’re using the Shot Scope X5.

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Navigate using buttons/screen

Now let’s start off with the general navigation on this device here. So, you will see that if I turn the device just to the side, there is a roller button or a crown button up here in the top right, and we have a back button down here. Now, the device is also touchscreen so we can swipe across the screen like that, but we can also use the crown here to access the menu and to navigate through it. So you can either move up and down the screen or by rotating this dial here you can access the various menus.

Enable/Disable watch auto-lock

Now, you’ll notice here if I tap on the screen it comes up with the lock symbol and if I press any buttons I can’t do anything, and that’s because there is a screen lock on. So let’s first of all look at how we can disable this screen lock. I’m going to turn this dial here and I’m going to go down to settings. Now, from settings, I’m going to look for the lock option, and if I press the crown in, we can then see we’ve got a clock face lock or a golf lock. Now, you’ll notice here I can move up and down on the screen. Personally, I prefer to use the roller wheel which is probably what I’ll use for most of this tutorial, but you can touch the screen if you want to. Now, let’s disable the clock face lock which is the lock we have on the watch just now. So, we press the button in. You’ll notice you can use press and hold, which is the type of unlock option just now, we can disable, or we can use a swipe motion. I want to disable the screen lock, so I’m going to choose disable and press the button in. Now, that will now disable the lock here for General watch mode which means the watch isn’t going to go into auto-lock. I will need to separately turn off the lock for golf mode but I’ll do that a little bit later on.

Turn watch off/on

Now, let’s look at how we can turn our Shot Scope device off. So, let’s say with this X5 we want to turn off. All we do is go into the menu by pressing the top right button, and then we’re just going to go to shut down, press the button to confirm, and press once more, and that will shut the device down. Now, to wake the X5 up, you just simply press the top right button and it will turn back on just like this. The nice thing about the Shot Scope X5 is if you leave it sitting on its own not touching it for about 20 or 30 minutes, it will automatically turn off. So if it’s not been used it should be able to conserve that battery by switching itself off. So now that we’ve at some of the general navigation, let’s look at some of the watch settings we get access to with the X5. So I’m going to go into the main menu here and I’m going to go down to settings.

Change time (12/24 hour modes)

And you’ll see above clock face if we go up we have time. So let’s go into time here and this allows you to switch between 24-hour and 12-hour time. So I’ve used the analog display so it’s not going to make a huge difference just now, but I’ll change it to 12-hour and then when we look at the time later on on the digital display you will notice that it will be in 12-hour time rather than 24-hour.

Change clock face

Now, you’ll see here I am using this analog display, but there are actually several different displays that you can switch between for your watch mode. So if I go into the main menu here and we’re going to go down to settings and then you’ll see we have clock face here. Now, if we press the crown in, we can basically cycle through these clock faces. Now, for this, you need to swipe, so you’ll see as I swipe through there’s a couple of different choices and you’ll notice this is now in that 12-hour clock that we chose for the time setting. And all you do is you select the one that you’re interested in—this one’s quite good because it has steps, date, and time—and then you simply press on screen to confirm and you’ll notice the screen has changed here.

View battery life and step count

Now, you’ll see on screen here we have the time, the date, and number of steps, but if I want to view my battery life, all I do is swipe to the right-hand side and will show me my battery and my percentage and also whether or not I have an active Bluetooth connection with the Shot Scope mobile app. And you’ll see I didn’t even need to touch it there, it’s gone back to this home screen here. So those were some of the general watch settings.

Golf mode settings

Let’s now look at the golf mode settings. Now, these are the settings that you’ll want to set up once before you play, and they will become your defaults that you can use every time from that point onwards.

Enable/Disable auto-lock (golf mode)

So first of all, let’s look at how to turn off that lock mode for golf mode. So we’re going to press on the crown and I’m going to go down to settings and we’re going to look for that lock option again. Press the crown in and go down to golf lock and I don’t want to have any lock on the golf course so I’m going to disable this. Now, the golf mode is probably one occasion when you may want to have the lock on because you might accidentally touch some of the buttons with your glove or depending on how your wrist movement is, but for the purposes of this video, I’m going to turn the lock off. So when we go into golf mode I don’t need to keep unlocking every time it decides to lock the device on its own.

Right or left-handed mode

One of the settings you’ll be asked to set up when you’re going through the onboarding process is to choose whether you are a left or right-handed golfer. Now, if you have selected the wrong setting there, let’s say for example you’re a right-handed golfer and you chose that you’re a left-hander, you will not be able to track your shots properly. You need to wear the Shot Scope X5 on your lead wrist, so if you’re a right-handed golfer, you need to wear it on your left wrist. If you’re left-handed, you have to wear on your right wrist, but you need to make sure you tell the device which wrist you are wearing it on. If you want to double-check which one you have set or change it, all you need to do is go into the crown and go to settings and then you’re going to look for the hand l/r. From here you just going to choose whether you are a right-handed or left-handed golfer. You’ll see I am a right-handed, that’s the one that is already in play so don’t need to do anything, but if it was on left-handed there I would need to change it to right-handed, but in this case it was already set right-handed so it is fine.

Show Club ID

Another setting that’s useful to make sure you have switched on is the club ID. So we’ll go back into settings and I’m going to look for the club ID. So let’s go down show club. Now, show club will display the tag on screen when you are playing. I can’t really think of why you would want to turn this off in case or unless the screen is maybe a bit cluttered, but for me I always make sure this is enabled because I want to see visually on screen that my club tag has been successful.

Enable/Disable digital scorecard

Now the X5 has a built-in scorecard which will need to be enabled before you begin your round. However, in the settings menu there is an option to disable the scorecard which means you won’t be asked if you want to enable it when you’re playing. So if you have used X5 and you notice that you can’t access a scorecard, the chances are it may be disabled from this menu, so it’s worthwhile making sure you enable in the menu if you do want to make use of the scorecard. If we go to the crown and down to settings let’s look for the scoring option. And you will see here under scoring you have disable, enable and enable and hide. Enable and hide will let you access a scorecard but it will not show your total score to par on screen as you play. Disable will not let you view your scorecard, and enable will let you see your score to par on screen and access your scorecard. So for most golfers who are happy to see their score to par on the watch display whilst they’re playing, I would recommend that you turn on enable as your scoring option. So go to scoring and I’m going to choose enable and we can now when we’re setting up a round choose the scorecard and we’ll be able to see that on the display of the watch.

Auto/Manual putting mode

Now when it comes to putting, the Shot Scope putting tag—the P tag, this is a 7-iron but it looks the same as this with a P on it—is used to track your putts. One of the big benefits of the X5 is it tracks your shots automatically by simply taking the tag and tapping it against or close to this strap, the strap without the buckle. So it doesn’t need to touch it but it just has to be in a close proximity. The putter tag is screwed into your putter and it’s the only tag that will allow you to track your putts. However, in some cases you may have a counterbalance putter where this screw cannot be screwed into your putter and therefore you can’t track your putts. However, the good news is you can put the watch into manual putting mode and then you can use the options on the watch display to add your putt. So when you stand over your putt, you can manually add the putt at that point rather than doing so automatically. In order to be able to do this, you need to go into the settings menu before you play and you need to look for the putting option and you’re going to choose manual. So that will allow you to manually track your putts. For most people who don’t have counterbalance putters and can use the putter tag, your best just to leave it in Auto and it will automatically track those putts like it does with other shots. So let’s go to settings and we’ll go down to putting and I’ll just make sure that auto is enabled. Manual does live there if you want to manually track your putts by pressing the buttons on the watch. It is worth noting though that some Shot Scope users suggest manual putting gives an improvement in terms of GPS accuracy. There isn’t really any truth in that; it’s just another method of capturing those putts. If you’re using a standard tag with a standard putter grip, Auto putting should be more than good enough.

Change hole map background colour

Let’s look at a couple more settings for golf mode before we begin our round. So we’ll go down to settings and the first one I want to look at is hole map color. So this allows you to set the background color for your hole overview maps between green, white, and black. So in this case, I’m going to change it to White and then just to show you from this view if I load up one of the maps by going into the demo you’ll see that the background is white. So that can be either white, green, or black. Personally, I tend to go for the black background, but as you can see within the watch all you need to do is to go into the hole map color and then you can change it in here. So I’ll make that black and then when I load my map when we do the live demo you’ll be able to see that the background is black.

Read Tags (check if tags/strap are working properly)

The final setting that is worth knowing about before you play under golf is being able to check your tags. Now, the tags here are very robust, I’ve had no issues with any of my Shot Scope tags, but if you want to check that the tags are still working or that the strap is working and it is detecting the tags, you can go into the settings menu and you can make use of the Tag Read option. So I’ve just scrolled up there, Tag Read, and then all you want to do is make sure that the tag is positioned above the strap here that does not contain the buckle and you’ll notice it highlights that as my seven iron having been found. If I move it away, I move it back, I know that the strap and this seven iron tag is working. So it’s a nice way to just double-check your tags are working and certainly in my opinion something worth checking if you’ve bought a device off of the likes of eBay or maybe Facebook Marketplace and you’ve got concerns that maybe it hasn’t been tracking properly. Obviously check that your tags have been correctly assigned in the app, but it’s a good idea to use this tag checking option just to make sure that everything is in order.

Select golf mode (GPS+Track/GPS), course, tees and scoring

Now that we looked at some of the settings you want to make sure you have in place before you head to the golf course, let’s now look at how to set up a round using the X5. So when we’re at the golf course, all we do is press the crown button in and we’re going to go to play golf. Again, I can either tap on the screen or I can use the crown and you’ll see here we have GPS in track or GPS. GPS is GPS only. GS and track is GPS information with that added shot tracking, which is the one that I generally use every time I play. From here all we do is press the top right button and it will try to obtain a GPS connection. And then the next screen allows us to select our course from the list of available courses. So you’ll see on screen I have the D Ferman small course and D Ferman main course, so I’ve got two different courses here to choose from. I’m going to go for D Ferman Golf Club, press the button in, and it’s going to connect to my local golf course which is D Ferman. I can choose my tees, so I’m going to play from the yellow, white, or red. Let’s just go for yellow. And then because we enabled scoring earlier, we have the option here to view scoring, so I’m going to track my score using the digital scorecard, so we’ll choose yes. And now you’ll see we have the GPS information on screen for our course.

Overview of golf mode display

Now let me talk you through what you can see here. So, around the outside where we have the numbers, these are the holes and it will light up in blue next to the hole you are on, so this is hole number one. Now, don’t worry about the speed at which the yardages are updating here, it’s because I’m inside the house and we’ve managed to get a GPS connection. Down the bottom here you’ll see hole one H1 and P4 par 4, so this is the current hole and the par for the hole. In the centre of the screen here we have the yardage to the centre of the green. At the top we have the yardage to the back of the green and at the bottom we have the yardage to the front of the green. Up here at the top left we have our score to par and at the top right here we have the last tag that we have used, our last tag. You’ll notice here if I take this seven iron tag again, I’m going to hover over the strap and this would let me know as my confirmation here that I have used my seven iron. So this is why that show club ID is really important.

Hazard menu (hazards, hole overview maps, layups, green map)

Let’s first of all look at the hazard menu on this device. Now, you can swipe across the screen just like this and this will take you into the hazard menu and the various other options that are available. And you’ll notice if I keep swiping, we eventually get back to the main display, and then you can swipe the other way here to go through these. So the hazard menu is this one you see here, and this is going to show you any hazards on the hole that you are playing. So if you see the hazard on the right-hand side that means it’s on the right-hand side of the fairway and if it’s on the left-hand side it’s on the left-hand side. You’ll see here we have three different bunkers. If there was a water hazard it would be marked with the water hazard icon. And the yardage to the front of the bunker is displayed at the bottom and the yardage to carry the bunker is displayed above it, so the bottom one is to reach and the top one is to carry. Now, if you see a hashed line through the bunker that means that it is a green side bunker. And because of where I am relative to the golf course because my house is behind the first screen, that’s why the green side bunker sits at the closest point here, but that’s a big difference between the standard bunkers and green side.

If we want to have a look at something else in here, let’s scroll to the right. This is your hole overview. Now, again because of where I’m positioned it’s not ideal, but you can see here you can move the crown up and down and this lets you move the marker point to see how far you have to hit to reach that point. In an ideal world, if it was at the golf course, this would be the fairway here and then the green would be above it. But because of where my house is located, as I said, I’m behind the green. But you can see you can move this up or down or you can actually click and drag on screen to reposition that marker for how far you have to hit to reach that point. The number here is to the pin, where the pin by default will be in the centre of the green. And if you press this bottom button, this will show you your performance average distance. And if you press in here, this is really cool because it takes the information from your last 10 rounds and it overlays this on the map. So this is my driver. If I go back into this here and change this to my 3-wood, so it’s a bit easier just to move down, let’s choose my 3-wood. What will happen is the little marker that would appear on screen will change to the distance of a three-wood. So you can basically at a glance see if your club based on performance average is going to carry that initial point there. So it shows you how far up the fairway you’ll get with that club. It’s not ideal because of my display but it’s a really neat feature when you use it on the golf course. You’ll notice as well if I press that centre button we can go down to layup and this allows us to see the layup point. So we can actually see how far we have to hit to leave ourselves 100 or 150 yards. Again the numbers are slightly amiss here because we’re behind the green, but in this case is saying that if I hit 389 yards I would leave myself 100 yards from the green. Generally speaking if you’re playing a par five that’s a handy thing to keep an eye on because you can leave yourself maybe 50 yards or 100 yards from the green with your next shot.

Let’s swipe to the right here and look at this option here. This is the green view. Now what I like about this is it shows you front, middle, and back, but you can tap move pin and you can basically drag the pin around to position it. So I can put the pin at the front left area and then I can confirm and then what will happen is when we go back the centre yardage here is no longer the middle of the green, that will now be to the pin. And if we look at our map here that number will update as well and it’s changed the location of the pin on screen, so you’ll see it’s now in the bottom left rather than the centre. So if you are playing a hole that you’re not too familiar with and you can see the pin, you can move its position on the map here and get a more accurate GPS distance to that pin position. It’s also useful if you’re playing your home course and you know roughly where the pins are, you can move them on each hole.

Now also found within the hazard menu is the layup and dog leg information here. So you’ll see as I scroll up and down I can see how many yards I need to hit to leave myself 100 yards, 150 or in this case 200 yards. Now these numbers are slightly different because I’m inside my house and as I said earlier I am behind the green, but this is really useful if you’re playing a par five and you want to basically ensure that you’re leaving yourself a certain amount of yardage, say 100 yards. You need to know how far you need to hit to leave yourself 100, 150 or 200, and if you’re playing a hole that has a dog leg it will tell you how many yards it is to reach that dog leg.

Digital scorecard

Let’s next look at our scorecards. So you’ll see here are on the first hole and our score is level par. We can press the crown in and what we can do is we can keep going through until we get to the game menu and then tap enter and then we can go down to scorecard to get into the score card view. Or what we can do is when we’re on this screen here we can just simply tap on the score and it takes us to the scorecard menu which is a nice shortcut. From here if we press the crown in, we can see our score for all of the holes. Now, it will prompt me to enter my number of putts and my score at the end of the hole, but because I’m not actually playing, I’m just going to quickly do this. So we’ll say for the first hole we took two putts and we made a five. And let’s go down and do the second hole, three putts and we made a four. And what’s nice about this is it knows if we’re playing a par four, if I took three putts it knows it’s likely to be a five if I’ve hit the green in regulation and three putted. So you can see now we’ve entered three different scores and we are plus three and it tells us that now at the top left. So we can actually keep an eye on our score because we’ve chosen to enable the scorecard with the show option.

Last Shot mode

Now, at the top right you’ll also see there is the tracking option for your last shot. So this is based on our seven iron here, and if I tap it it allows me to see how far I hit my last shot. So when I get to the ball after I’ve hit it, I can tap that button just to see how many yards roughly I’ve hit with my seven iron. Obviously all of this data becomes available in the Shot Scope dashboard after we’ve edited our round, but it’s a nice thing to view on the course if you’re just curious to know how far you hit one of your shots.

Manually change holes

Now, once you’ve entered your score for the hole the device will automatically move you to the next hole and it does the same thing if you just walk to the next hole. However, you can manually move holes by tapping on the H1 bit at the bottom and then you can use the change hole option to jump to a specific hole, in this case the third hole. We could also go into the menu options here and choose enter and then we could use the change hole option here, but it’s much quicker to simply just press that bottom button and to go into the change hole options here. So that’s how you can change hole.

Enable/Disable Rain mode

Let’s look at a couple more options found in the main menu. So we’re going to press the crown button and we’re going to choose game menu. And then from here let’s go down to rain mode. So this device is a touch screen which means unfortunately when it’s wet it doesn’t always work so well. So what you can do is you can go into this menu—and it keeps timing out as you’ve seen throughout this video—but let’s go nice and quickly into rain mode and if the rain starts you can simply choose enable and then your touch screen is no longer enabled. So you can basically use the menu button here. You’ll notice it doesn’t go through the various maps and what not, you’ll need to choose them from this menu whereas before when we had enabled we could swipe through or keep pressing the crown. So now the touch screen functionality has been disabled. And if we want to turn it back on, all we need to do is go to settings and down to rain mode and disable.

Penalty menu

Another option that I haven’t shown you yet is the penalty option. Now, you can get to this quick and easily by tapping the top left in the scorecard and go down to add penalty. Now, I’m not going to cover penalties in this video, I’ve got a separate tutorial explaining how to use each of these, but these allow you to add the penalty whilst you’re playing. If you’re interested in that video, I’ll put it in the card above and the description below. But basically you select the relevant penalty from here and it will be applied to your score and to your tracking. Personally, I prefer to add penalties when I’m editing, but you can get to those by tapping at the top left and going down to add penalty. That can also be found by going into the main menu and then choosing penalties from the penalty menu here.

Pause tracking

Now, another useful feature to know about is the pause tracking option. This is really good if you have initiated your round and then decided you want to chip some balls in the practice area before you tee off, or if during your round you want to drop a second ball but you don’t want those shots to be tracked. All you need to do to enable pause tracking is to go into the main menu and then you are going to use the pause track option. So let’s go down and choose pause track and then you just need to make sure at this point that you either tap on the screen or press the crown otherwise it won’t actually pause the tracking. You know it’s paused because the pause symbol appears at the top right. At this point you can then continue playing those extra balls, and when you’re ready to resume tracking you just need to tap on the pause tracking button and then tap resume. That will then allow you to begin tracking your round once again.

Check battery level mid-round

Now, during your round if you’re curious to know what your battery level is like, you can press the crown and you can go into that main menu and then from here we can go down and choose battery and that will allow you to see your battery percentage. So I have 96% on this, so no worries to finish my round. Tells you the percentage and it also gives you the indicator there.

Switching units of measurement (yards/metres)

Now, you’ll notice on screen I have this little Y next to my middle measurement. That is my unit of measurement for my GPS, in this case this is yards. If you want to swap this to metres, then all you need to do is press on the crown, go into the game menu, and then from here we’re going to go down and we’re going to look at units. Now, from the units menu you’ll see you have two options: distance and show icon. If we choose distance and change it to meters, then when we’re playing we’ll now see an M next to that unit of measurement. So here we have the M. If we go back into that menu though and maybe we don’t want to see the unit displayed on screen, we can go down to units and then you can use show icon and change it to disable and it will not display that. Personally, I think it’s important to have it displayed so I’m going to enable this but I’m going to change the measurement back to yards. In this case, I can’t think of many reasons why you wouldn’t want to see the unit of measurement displayed there just in case you’re in the wrong one, but that’s how you can show or hide that unit if you so wish.

Ending your round

Now, when we finish our round, the device will automatically ask us on the last hole once we have entered our score if we wish to end our round and it will show us how long the round has gone on for, how many steps have taken, and what our score is. If we want to end the round prematurely, all we need to do is go into the menu using the crown, and I’m going to enter the menu and then you will see we have the end round option here. Now, this allows us to end our round at this point. All we need to do is press the crown in and we have the option to end our round or resume. So at this point, I’ve decided I would like to end the round, so I simply press the crown in and it will show me my score, number of steps, and the round time in total. At this point I can then go back and we go back to the main watch display here. Now, to finish things off, to get our round from our Shot Scope X5 to our Shot Scope account, we just simply need to take our phone, log into the app, and with a Bluetooth connection use the synchronized round option to move it from the X5 to our phone.

Viewing round history

One thing that is useful to know about though is if we’re in watch mode and we go into the main menu and then go to history, you can actually see any rounds that are stored on your watch that you haven’t yet moved across to your Shot Scope account. So you’ll see here I can either use the roller wheel or swipe, but I’ve only got one round in here, but it will tell you information about the round such as my score and the round time here and the date. So we can see that additional information within the History Section. So if you want to make sure that you’ve got all of your rounds off your device, they will sync across when you connect with the app, but if you’re just curious to know if any are still loaded on your device then that’s how you check. Anyway, that brings us to the end of this video. I really hope that you found it to be useful. If you did, please do consider hitting that like button and subscribing to the channel. If you have any questions about any content I’ve covered in this video or any other Shot Scope products, please do feel free to drop them in the comments area below. Remember in the description I’ve put my exclusive 15% discount code and if you enjoyed this video and you’re looking for some tips to better use your Shot Scope X5 or tips on how to edit your rounds then check out these videos here.