Wegolf South Africa

Let’s take an example of playing a round using distances only at a course that has already been mapped on Wegolf’s database.  I presume that you know how to start the round using distances only.

When you get to the hole where you want to add a poi you have to follow these steps:

1. Your screen will be displaying the distances from your current position to poi previously mapped on that hole.
2. You have to exit your round first. Do this by selecting Options, Cancel.
3. Now go Back, Back until you are at the main menu.
4. On the main menu, select Courses and the course that you want to add the poi on.
5. You will see a scorecard. Go Options, GPS coordinates and select the hole that you want to add  the poi on.
6. Now select New, select the name of the poi, where on object as well as side of fairway.
7. Then go Options, Enable GPS.
8. Then give it a couple of seconds for the satellites to get a good fix on your position.
9. Then go Options, Save. to save the new poi and it’s coordinates.
10. You have now created a new course called course name(private). This is because that version of the specific course with that extra poi is only on your cell phone. Therefor it’s names Orkney (Private) for instance.
11. Now go Back, Back, Back until you are are the course list.
12. To publish your new course with the extra poi to your private section of www.wegolf.net highlight the course name and select Options, Publish.
13. Now you must go back to playing your round…
14. Do this by going to the main menu of Wegolf and

• Starting the round again if you use distances only
• Resuming the round if you use Distance and score

To use your camera during a round you will firstly need to select Distances and score when you start a new round.

And then, while using Wegolf during your round, you’ll get to the following screen where you enter you score and putts on a hole…

To use the camera, you select Options, Camera on this screen and just snap your memory of a good shot or whatever. The photo will be Geo-Tagged, by Wegolf as long as your GPS is connected to the satellites when you take the photo.

Wegolf really utilizes you cell phone’s camera to the maximum by allowing you to capture memories of your golf exploits.

Here is an example of a round I played at Gary Player Country Club in 2008…On the 9th hole I played two shots and took a photo using Wegolf and my cell’s camera:

And below you can see  how Wegolf Geo Tagged the photo to show where the photo was taken from on a satellite image…

Utilizing your cell phone’s camera to capture special golfing memories is just one of the great features of Wegolf.

What score must you write in on a hole where you get a “Blackout”?

Example : Par 4 Stroke 10 and your Handicap is 10:

If you play more than 6 shots,

• In South Africa ,you normally write 6 with a ring on your score card for handicap purposes.
• However, if you enter 6 on that hole with Wegolf, it automatically calculates a 6 for 1 point by default.
• So, you have to enter at least 1 more than the amount of shots you are allowed on any hole for 1 point.
• Then Wegolf will calculate  zero points for you on that hole.
• So if you get a couple of blackouts in a round, your Wegolf score on your cell phone will be as many strokes more than the round you hand in for your handicap.
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On the main menu of Wegolf…

1. Select Tools, GPS
2. If your phone’s GPS receiver isn’t connected to the satellites at the time, you will  get a choice of
   1. Built in GPS
   2. Discover GPS
   3. Com Ports
3. Choose the option that applies to your phone.
4. The cell phone will then prompt you to allow Wegolf to use Positioning data. Say Yes.
5. Once you’re connected to the satellites, you will see this screen:

1. . Now select Back until you are on the main menu of Wegolf.

PS. Once your phone is connected to the satellites, you don’t need to follow these steps every time before you use Wegolf. But knowledge of these steps is important in that you can always just go to Tools,GPS in future to make sure the cell phone is connected to the satellites in future.

Only when the cell phone’s GPS receiver is disconnected for whatever reason, will you need to follow all the steps mentioned above again.

Select Players on the main menu of Wegolf on your cell.

Now you have two options:

1. Download:
   • Here you can download any player that was previously created on your cell and then published to the web.
2. New
   • Create a new player by filling in the Name, Surname and handicap (Just enter one figure here for your individual competition handicap,  like 14 and ignore the * and the number thereafter)
   • For your own records, you can also fill in the new player’s email addres and phone number, but that is optional.
   • After You have filled in the info, select Options, Save.
   • You will now see the newly created player’s name and handicap on the list.

Now you have created a player