TomTom Golfer 2, User Manual

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Page 2: ... information 13 Pausing stopping and continuing a round 14 Reporting a change for a course 14 Doglegs 15 Understanding doglegs on your watch 15 Laying up 17 Laying up using your watch 17 Layup and green views 18 Approaching the green 19 Approaching the green using your watch 19 Layup and green views 19 Hazards 21 Understanding hazards on your watch 21 Zooming in on a hazard 22 Scoring 24 Scoring u...

Page 3: ...activity goal 29 Switch off activity tracking 29 Monitoring your activity 30 Settings 31 About settings 31 About 31 Clock 31 Tracker 32 Phone 32 Airplane mode 34 Options 34 Profile 35 Standards 35 TomTom Sports account 36 TomTom Golfer mobile app 37 TomTom Sports Connect 39 Glossary of Terms 40 Addendum 42 Copyright notices 47 ...

Page 4: ...a smartphone you ll probably want to download the TomTom Golfer app for free from your usual app store or by going to tomtom com app For information about what you see on the watch and how to use it here are some good starting points About your watch Quick Start Playing your first hole Activity tracking Settings Tip There are also frequently asked questions FAQs at tomtom com support Select your p...

Page 5: ...can play your first hole Tip Your watch is fully charged when the battery animation stops moving and shows a full battery You should connect your watch to your computer regularly to charge it update golf course information download software updates and download QuickGPSfix information Important You can also use any USB wall charger to charge your TomTom Golfer Place your watch in the USB dock and ...

Page 6: ...arn more go to TomTom Golfer mobile app in this guide Important To transfer round data from your TomTom Golfer watch to your mobile phone your phone needs to be connected to the internet This can be an internet connection using a cellular network or Wi Fi Pairing your watch with your phone To learn more go to Phone in this guide ...

Page 7: ...own opens the Settings menu 2 Press right opens the Golf course menu 3 Press up opens the Scorecard history screen 4 Cover the screen with your palm to turn on the back light 5 Press long left pause and exit an activity The Clock screen shows the time and date You can choose to show the time in 12 hour or 24 hour format by pressing down to open the SETTINGS page 31 menu then selecting Clock Using ...

Page 8: ...ve your watch from the wrist strap first To remove the watch from the wrist strap hold your watch in both hands place your thumbs on the big button and your forefingers on the back edges of the watch frame and press your thumbs down on the big button until the watch clicks free from its frame To place your watch in the USB dock slide the watch into the dock following the curve of the back of the w...

Page 9: ... number of your watch You may need this information if you contact Customer Support Every time you connect your watch to your computer TomTom Sports Connect checks if a software update is available for your watch About soft reset A soft reset is performed each time you disconnect your watch from a wall charger or computer To perform a soft reset on your watch follow these steps 1 Connect your watc...

Page 10: ...ports Connect has finished restoring your watch This takes several minutes Check any messages shown in TomTom Sports Connect and on your watch before you disconnect your watch To perform a factory reset on your watch follow these steps 1 Connect your watch to your computer and wait until TomTom Sports Connect finishes updating your watch 2 Click SETTINGS in TomTom Sports Connect 3 Click Reset TomT...

Page 11: ...the Dock to open a Finder window 3 In the side bar click your Android device s memory card 4 Open TomTom_TomTom Sports watch serial number 5 Copy the folder named Rounds and save it on your computer iOS 1 Connect your iOS device to your computer and wait for iTunes to open 2 Click on the device s icon in the upper left corner of iTunes 3 Select Apps in the iTunes side bar and scroll down to File S...

Page 12: ...t to the flag symbol 3 Par for the hole 4 The distance from your last swing 5 Distance from your position to the back centre and front of the green Note Distance to the pin is not shown because pin placement may vary from day to day Tip Press right to see more information about the hole 4 Take as many practice swings as you like Tip You can take several practice swings without affecting your score...

Page 13: ... if your golf course is available on the watch go to tomtom com en gb golf golf html The page is available in English Updating golf course information One off update to start receiving incremental course updates To allow your watch to receive incremental updates we recommend that you reinstall all courses globally Before you update the golf course information make sure that you are using the lates...

Page 14: ... Connect Select the GOLF COURSES tab and click GET NEW MAPS Note Reinstalling all courses can take approximately an hour Pausing stopping and continuing a round Pausing and restarting a round of golf During a round of golf do a long left press to stop the clock and pause your round To resume your round again press right Stopping a round of golf To stop the round do a long left press to pause and t...

Page 15: ...the range screen The direction the arrow points shows you whether the dogleg bends to left or to the right You may choose to hit over a dogleg or to lay up instead Note Double doglegs are not supported by your TomTom Golfer Position of doglegs on the fairway Your TomTom Golfer shows the position of doglegs relative to their position on the actual course Doglegs ...

Page 16: ...16 For example the watch below is showing a dogleg right at 230 yards metres from your current position The distance to the start of the dogleg is measured along the course centre line ...

Page 17: ...m the 200 yard metre layup marker As you walk the hole towards the pin your current distance from the first L200 marker on the right hand side of the watch screen reduces When you reach a layup marker the layup marker disappears from the screen The default distances for the layup markers are 100 150 200 Note Keep pressing up to cycle through the Hazards Layup or Green view screen depending on whic...

Page 18: ...en views As you approach the green press up or down to swap between the layup screen and the green view as shown below Once you have passed the last layup marker the watch automatically shows only the view of the green ...

Page 19: ...a wave pattern and bunkers as a dotted pattern If a water and sand hazard are in the same area surrounding the green water takes priority and that pattern is shown over the sand pattern The distance to the centre of the green is shown and reflects the middle value on the range screen Layup and green views As you approach the green press up or down to swap between the layup screen and the green vie...

Page 20: ...20 Once you have passed the last layup marker the watch automatically shows only the view of the green ...

Page 21: ...elow Position of hazards on the fairway Your TomTom Golfer shows the position of hazards relative to their position on the actual course For example the watch below is showing a bunker approximately 220 yards metres on the right and a water hazard 275 yards metres straight ahead that you will need to hit the ball over it is approximately 15 yards metres wide If there are no hazards on a hole or yo...

Page 22: ...ds relative to their position on the actual course To see more detail about the hazards currently in front of you do the following 1 Go to the Hazards screen 2 Cover the screen of your TomTom Golfer with your palm as if you are turning on the back light You see a zoomed in view of the hazards currently in the middle of the screen showing accurate distances and more detail ...

Page 23: ...23 3 To zoom out cover the screen again with your palm Tip You don t see doglegs in the zoomed in Hazards screen ...

Page 24: ... the hole for example here the golfer is on the first hole 3 The par for the hole For example the first hole shown above is a par 5 4 The total number of strokes taken so far for a round In this example the golfer has played one hole and taken 5 strokes so the total for the round so far is also 5 strokes 5 The number of strokes for the hole just played Enter the score for a hole by pressing up and...

Page 25: ...ous round to look at in more detail then press right You see the name of the course you played 3 Press right to see the par and total score for the round split into the front 9 holes and back 9 holes as shown below 4 Press right to see the score for each hole of that previous round 5 Press left to go back to the name of the course Tip Up to 250 completed scorecards can be stored on the watch and t...

Page 26: ...o the following 1 Do a factory reset 2 Reinstall the golf courses which can take approximately 80 minutes Follow the instructions in Updating golf course information 3 Make your smartphone forget the watch in your Bluetooth settings and then pair it again following the instructions in Phone ...

Page 27: ... Note You can make several practice swings without affecting your scorecard because only one stroke is added to the scorecard from each location If you need to add more strokes for example due to a penalty shot you can record a stroke manually by covering the screen with your palm Important All putts need to be recorded manually See Manually recording a stroke Manually recording a stroke Occasiona...

Page 28: ...a putt Note You can make several practice swings without affecting your scorecard Removing a detected stroke If a stroke is accidentally detected you can remove it before it is counted When you see the current 1 stroke alert press left to select CANCEL within 10 seconds ...

Page 29: ...not supported by the TomTom Golfer 2 SE Activity tracking is switched ON by default and 10 000 steps is automatically pre set as a goal for you To change or set an activity tracking goal for the day do the following 1 From the Clock screen press down to open the SETTINGS menu 2 Select TRACKER 3 Select GOALS 4 Select the goal you want to set STEPS TIME CALORIES or DISTANCE 5 Press right 6 Set your ...

Page 30: ...ow active you have been do the following 1 From the Clock screen press left to see how you are progressing towards your goal 2 Press up or down to see distance time or calories depending on the goals you have set 3 To see steps per week press left again 4 Press right twice to go back to the Clock screen ...

Page 31: ... the Clock screen press down to open the SETTINGS menu then select CLOCK and press right to open the CLOCK menu Alarm Select ALARMto turn the alarm on and off and to set the alarm time When the alarm goes off press left to stop it or press right to snooze If you snooze the alarm it goes off again in 9 minutes Time Select TIME to set the time on your watch The time is either set using the 12 or 24 ...

Page 32: ... smartphone In addition the app downloads QuickGPSfix data to your watch For more information as to why you should want to pair your watch with your phone or mobile device see TomTom Golfer app To pair your watch with a phone or mobile device do the following 1 Make sure that your phone or mobile device is close by 2 On your phone make sure that Bluetooth is enabled 3 From the clock screen on your...

Page 33: ...ur phone and it is trying to connect to your watch you may need to wake up your watch by moving away from the clock screen Press down left or right from the clock screen Synchronising course information You can automatically synchronise golf course information with your TomTom Sports account by using this setting From the clock screen on your watch press down to open the SETTINGS screen then selec...

Page 34: ...SCORE to make your watch automatically advance to the next hole after you complete the hole you are currently playing Select OFF to switch off automatic hole advance ON SCORE prompts you to record your score as you advance to the next hole SOUNDS Select BEEP VIBRATE BEEP or VIBRATE to get prompts when you automatically advance to the next hole Select OFF to switch all prompts off Strokes Select ST...

Page 35: ...EIGHT AGE GENDER Language Select LANGUAGE to set the language used for menus and messages on your watch Clubs Select left or right handed clubs Tip Which wrist you wear the watch on has no effect Gender Gender is used by the TomTom Golfer when playing a hole that may have different par values for men and women For example a hole could be a par 5 for women and a par 4 for men Standards From the Clo...

Page 36: ...information To create an account click the button in TomTom Sports Connect or go directly to the website mysports tomtom com As you can see from the diagram below you can manage to your Sports account using either TomTom Sports Connect or the TomTom Golfer app TomTom Sports account ...

Page 37: ...shot distribution or pattern Updates golf course information Updates the QuickGPSfix information on your watch Provides an alternative to TomTom Sports Connect for updating QuickGPSfix Important To transfer round data from your TomTom Golfer watch to your mobile phone your phone needs to be connected to the internet This can be an internet connection using a cellular network or Wi Fi TomTom Golfer...

Page 38: ...later iPad Pro iPad Air iPad 3rd generation or later All iPad mini Android The TomTom Golfer app requires Bluetooth Smart or Bluetooth LE and Android 4 3 or higher to communicate with your watch A range of Bluetooth Smart enabled Android devices have been tested to confirm their compatibility with the Golfer app Check your phone s compatibility with the Golfer app by visiting the Google Play Store...

Page 39: ...s golf course information on your watch Transfers any settings you make on TomTom Sports to your watch Updates the QuickGPSfix information on your watch Installing TomTom Sports Connect You can download TomTom Sports Connect for free from here tomtom com 123 Once installed connect your watch to your computer using the USB dock TomTom Sports Connect ...

Page 40: ...g green is an area of closely trimmed grass surrounding the hole or pin Holing out or getting the ball into the hole with the minimum number of strokes possible is the main aim of playing golf H Hazard A hazard is an area of a golf course which provides a difficult obstacle for the golfer to negotiate A course may include water hazards such as lakes and rivers man made hazards such as bunkers and ...

Page 41: ... played However you should refer to the rules for your particular course P Par The par value for a golf course is the pre determined number of strokes that a scratch or zero handicap golfer needs to play a hole a round the sum of the pars of the played holes or a tournament the sum of the pars of each round A golfer s score is compared with the par score If a course has a par of 72 and a golfer ta...

Page 42: ...ate medical help as serious injury may occur How TomTom uses your information Information regarding the use of personal information can be found at tomtom com privacy TomTom Golfer App Access to the TomTom Golfer app is required in order to use some features of this product Battery and Environmental information Your device Do not disassemble crush bend deform puncture or shred your device Do not u...

Page 43: ...ill not occur at temperatures below 32 F 0 C or over 113 F 45 C Battery waste disposal THIS BATTERY MUST BE RECYCLED OR DISPOSED OF ACCORDING TO LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS AND ALWAYS BE KEPT SEPARATE FROM HOUSEHOLD WASTE THIS HELPS PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT WEEE e waste disposal In the EU EEA this product is marked with the wheelie bin symbol on its body and or packaging as required by Directive 20...

Page 44: ...esigned to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment ...

Page 45: ...onment This device and its antenna s must not be co located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter This equipment complies with IC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environ ment End users must follow the specific operating instructions for satisfying RF exposure compliance To maintain with IC RF exposure compliance requirements please follow operati...

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