TomTom Golfer 1 0 21 Reference Guide

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Watch status 
From the clock screen, move Left to open the status screen.  
The status screen shows the following information: 
 Battery - the battery power remaining on your watch.  
To charge the battery, place the watch in the desk dock and connect the dock to your computer. 
 QuickGPS - the status of the QuickGPSfix information on your watch.  
QuickGPSfix helps your watch find your precise location quickly so that you can start your round 
of golf. To update the QuickGPSfix information on your watch, connect your watch to your 
computer. TomTom MySports Connect automatically updates QuickGPSfix on your watch. 
QuickGPSfix information is valid for three days after you download it. 
These symbols are used to show the status of QuickGPSfix: 
  
QuickGPSfix on your watch is up-to-date. 
 
  
QuickGPSfix on your watch is out-of-date. If the QuickGPSfix 
information on your watch is out-of-date, your watch still works as 
usual. It may, however, take longer to get a GPS fix when you want to 
play a round of golf. 
 
 Version - the software version number and serial number of your watch. You may need this 
information if you contact Customer Support. Every time you connect your watch to your 
computer, TomTom MySports Connect checks if a software update is available for your watch.  
Performing a reset 
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 watch to a wall charger or computer. 
Wait until your watch shows a battery symbol. 
If you are using a computer, wait until MySports Connect finishes updating your watch. 
2. Disconnect your watch from the wall charger or computer. 
The software on your watch restarts. This performs a soft reset on your watch. 
Recovery mode 
Before you perform a factory reset on your watch you should try updating the watch software using 
the recovery mode. The recovery mode allows you to reinstall the software on your watch without 
deleting any personal data and settings. 
To perform a reset on your watch using the recovery mode, follow these steps: 
1. Connect your watch to your computer and wait until MySports Connect finishes updating your 
watch. 
2. On your watch, move Down but keep the button pressed.* 
3. Disconnect the USB cable from your computer.* 
4. Keep pressing the button until your watch shows a watch connected with a computer and 
tomtom.com/reset. 
5. Release the button and connect the USB cable to your computer. 
6. Click Update in MySports Connect.  
						

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* If the USB port on your computer is not easily accessible, connect the dock to the computer 
without the watch.    Then move down from the clock screen while you slide the watch into the 
dock. 
Factory reset 
Important: A factory reset removes all golf courses and settings from your watch and then reinstalls 
the software. To reinstall golf courses after a reset, connect your watch to your computer and 
follow the instructions to open a MySports account. If you dont want to do a factory reset now, 
select Cancel and then select Update instead. 
You should only use a factory reset as a last resort to restore your watch or if you really want to 
remove all your golf courses and settings. 
A factory reset reinstalls the software on your watch and this removes the following: 
 Your golf courses. 
 Your score history. 
 Your settings on the watch. 
Important: When you perform a factory reset, do not disconnect your watch before MySports 
Connect has finished restoring your watch. Installing the software on your watch takes several 
minutes. You then need to setup your watch in MySports Connect before you can install the golf 
courses again. Check any messages shown in MySports 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 MySports Connect finishes updating your 
watch. 
2. Expand SETTINGS in MySports Connect. 
3. Click FACTORY RESET at the bottom of MySports Connect. 
MySports Connect downloads the latest version of the software for your watch. 
4. Keep your watch connected when the window for MySports Connect closes. 
MySports Connect installs the software on your watch. 
5. Keep your watch connected when the window for MySports Connect opens again. 
6. Follow the instructions in MySports Connect to setup your watch.  
						

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Quick Start: Playing your first hole 
To play your first hole, do the following: 
1. From the clock screen, move Right. 
Your watch shows Please wait. When a GPS fix is found, you see a list of nearby golf courses. 
2. Move Up or Down to select a course, then move Right to start a round. 
3. The first hole is shown and you see the following information on the range screen on your 
watch: 
 Dogleg, if present, and dogleg direction. 
 Hole number (next to the flag symbol). 
 Par for the hole. 
 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: Move Right to see more information about the hole. 
 
4. Take any practice strokes that you need. Play your first stroke and then walk to the location of 
your golf ball. 
The remaining distance to the hole is shown. 
5. Play the remainder of the strokes for this hole until you hole out. 
6. Move Right twice to enter the score for your first hole. 
7. Walk to the second hole. Your watch automatically advances or you can move Up or Down from 
the range screen to manually move to the second hole.  
Quick Start: Button checklist 
To help you get started, here is a list of what the button moves do in each screen: 
Name of screen  Button Action 
Clock screen  Move Left Go to the Watch Status screen. 
Playing a round of golf  
						

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Move Up Go to Score history screen. 
  
Move Down Go to the Settings screen. 
  
Move Right Please wait while a GPS fix is obtained. When a 
fix is obtained, go to Golf Course menu. 
  
Move Right after 
stopping a round 
Go to Resume scorecard screen. 
Please wait screen  Move Left Back to the Clock screen. 
  
Move Down Go to the Recent Courses screen. 
  
Move Right Nothing happens. 
  
Move Up Nothing happens. 
Golf course menu  Move Up Go back to Please wait screen or to previous 
course in the list. 
  
Move Down Browse down through the list of courses starting 
with the nearest courses. 
  
Move Right Start your round on your selected course. 
Range screen  Move Up Go to the next hole. 
  
Move Down Go to the previous hole. 
  
Move Right Go to the Hazards, Layup or Green view screen, 
depending on which are applicable for the current 
hole. Green view is always present 
Move Right again to go to the Scorecard screen. 
  
Move Left Pauses your round. 
Pause screen  Move Left Stops your round and goes back to the Clock 
screen. 
  
Move Right Continue your round after a pause. 
Layup screen  Move Up Keep moving Up to cycle through the Hazards, 
Layup or Green view screen, depending on which 
are applicable for the current hole. Green view is 
always present.  
  
Move Down Keep moving Down to cycle through the Hazards, 
Layup or Green view screen, depending on which 
are applicable for the current hole. Green view is 
always present. 
  
Move Left Go back to the Range screen. 
  
Move Right Go to the Scorecard screen. 
Scorecard screen  Move Left Go to the Hazards, Layup or Green view screen, 
depending on which are applicable for the current 
hole. Green view is always present.  
						

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Move Right Nothing happens. 
  
Move Up Add strokes to your score for that hole. 
  
Move Down Remove strokes from your score for that hole. 
 
Choosing a course 
Tip: When your watch shows Please wait while waiting for a QuickGPSFix, you can move Down to 
browse recent courses. The watch vibrates when a fix is found. 
Move Up or Down to in the golf course menu to choose a golf course. 
 
Move Right when you are ready to start playing. 
Move Left to go back to the clock screen. 
Note: To find out if your golf course is available on the watch, go to 
tomtom.com/course-coverage. 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. 
Note: Reinstalling all courses can take approximately an hour. 
Before you update the golf course information, make sure that you are using the latest version of 
the MySports Connect desktop application used to update your watch. If you don’t have the latest 
version installed, an update link is shown next to the version: 
 Windows: Click the watch icon in the notification area at the bottom right of your desktop and 
click Settings. The version is listed on the About tab. 
 Mac: Click the watch icon in the status bar at the top right of your desktop and click Settings. 
The version is listed on the About tab. 
To update the golf course information on your TomTom Golfer, follow these steps: 
1. Connect your watch to your computer.  
						

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MySports Connect downloads and installs the latest changes to your recently played golf cours-
es. 
2. In MySports Connect, click Update. 
MySports Connect downloads and installs the latest software version. 
Note: Only software versions 1.0.5. or higher support incremental course updates. 
3. Expand SETTINGS in MySports Connect. 
4. Select the GOLF COURSES tab in MySports Connect and click GET NEW MAPS. 
MySports Connect downloads and installs all courses globally. 
Updating course information thereafter 
You can update the golf courses on your TomTom Golfer in two ways: 
1. TomTom MySports mobile app 
If you have a compatible phone, you can use the TomTom MySports mobile app to update all 
recently played golf courses and those within a range of 1000 metres. 
2. TomTom MySports Connect 
Each time you connect your watch to your computer, MySports Connect downloads and installs 
the latest changes to your recently played golf courses.  
If you need to update all golf courses globally, for example when you plan to travel, expand 
SETTINGS in MySports 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, move Left to stop the clock and pause your round.  
To resume your round again, move Right. 
Stopping a round of golf 
To stop the round, move Left to pause and then move Left again to return to the Clock screen. 
Continuing a round of golf 
Tip: You can only continue a round of golf if you have previously entered at least one number on 
your scorecard. 
To continue a round of golf, do the following: 
1. From the Clock screen, move Right and choose the course you were playing previously. 
2. Move Right to go to the Range screen. 
You are asked if you wish to resume your scorecard. 
3. Move Right to choose yes or move Left to select no.    
Note: You can resume a scorecard for up to 24 hours after pausing a round and returning to the 
Clock screen. The scorecard is still saved in your Score history if you select no. 
 
Reporting a change for a course 
You can report changes to golf courses here: 
Reporting changes to a golf course 
  
						

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Understanding doglegs on your watch 
Your TomTom Golfer can show whether any doglegs are present on a hole. 
On your watch, a dogleg is shown as an arrow icon on 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.  
For example, the watch below is showing a dogleg right at 230 yards/metres from your current 
position. 
 
 
Doglegs  
						

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The distance to the start of the dogleg is measured along the course centre line.  
						

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Laying up using your watch 
The layup screen during play (see below) shows the layup markers on the left-hand side of the 
watch screen and your current distance from that marker on the right-hand side of the watch 
screen.  
So as you look towards the pin, you can see how far away you currently are from the 200, 150 and 
100 yard/metre markers.  
For example, in the image below, the golfer is 236 yards/metres from 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 moving Up to cycle through the Hazards, Layup or Green view screen, depending on 
which are applicable for the current hole. Green view is always present. 
Tip: If a poor or loss of signal occurs, the range values grey and display the last values that were 
deemed to be good or accurate. 
Laying up  
						

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See also: Layup and green views  
Layup and green views 
As you approach the green, move 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.  
See also: Approaching the green using your watch