SkyCaddie launches SkyTrak in the UK

• SkyTrak is World-First Personal Launch Monitor and Golf Simulator
• Just £1,695 for professional-grade launch monitor and golf sim
• Arrives in UK November 2015
• Dramatically lowers price point for this technology
• Photometric technology measures real golf ball data, ideal for custom-fitting
• Software deals with World Golf Tour, TruGolf, The Golf Club Game and more

HADDENHAM, BUCKS, UK – The new SkyTrak™ Personal Golf Launch Monitor and Golf Simulator arrives in the UK in November 2015 priced at £1,695, although golfers in the UK can place their pre-orders now either direct from www.skytrakgolf.com or from their local golf professional.

SkyTrak is a joint venture between SkyCaddie parent company SkyGolf, and digital technology company SportTrak.

It combines the accuracy of a professional-grade golf launch monitor, suitable for golf equipment custom-fitting, with the high definition visuals of top-end golf simulator software.

SkyTrak’s game-changing price point makes this advanced technology realistically available to all golfers, golf clubs and professionals for the first time.

After it was unveiled to industry acclaim at January 2015’s PGA Merchandising Show in Orlando, reviewers quickly spotted that golfers, golf clubs and golf professionals can use SkyTrak as a complete Practice, Play and Entertainment System for golf, and that it is equally useful at home and at the golf club.

SkyTrak uses photometric technology to measure actual ball speed, launch angle, back spin, side spin and side angle immediately after impact. It also displays carry distance, offline distance and total distance to simulate practice and play as if you were on the course or practice tee.

SkyTrak shows you real results, from your real golf game – including your golf ball. Crucially, golfers can use their own favourite brand of golf ball, as most users will be hitting into a practice net. This gives you data for actual competitive play, which you can use to improve your game when out on the course.

A wide variety of Setup options enable you to configure SkyTrak to display the post-shot information you want, with several alternative views available in Driving Range mode.

While creating a highly entertaining golf experience, SkyTrak is a serious tool which accurately reflects the golfer’s actual skill level and shot results to provide year-round practice, play and game improvement without needing to leave home.

SkyTrak provides the accurate measurements of a professional-grade golf launch monitor, at a fraction of the cost. It opens up an entirely new world of solo or multi-player game-improving practice and hours and hours of entertainment at and away from the golf club or driving range.

SkyTrak creates its own Wi-Fi hotspot to put shot results on your screen within seconds. It accurately projects ball flight over a vivid 3D practice range and virtual golf courses, subject to which software you have chosen.

It offers various game-improvement challenges and mini-games for engaging practice such as Closest to the Pin, Longest Drive and Targets, along with Shot History Tables, Performance by Club, and other helpful data screens.

SkyTrak’s powerful engine provides entertaining challenges and competitions between family and friends, while delivering the same results as if you were on a real golf course.

SkyTrak ships with the basic version of the SkyTrak App, which displays a Driving Range and basic Shot Data on your iPad. A list of compatible iOS products is displayed on www.skytrakgolf.com.

Most will choose to upgrade to the SkyTrak Premium (Game Improvement) Subscription at a £79 annual fee. This unlocks all of the SkyTrak’s launch monitor capabilities, with extensive data tables enabling deep analysis of a customer’s golf swing for custom-fittings.

The SkyTrak Premium subscription also unlocks the fun side of SkyTrak – giving full access to all of its in-built challenges and mini-games.

For example, SkyTrak Premium also contains a spectacular 9-Shot Closest To The Hole Challenge, played over 9 different holes of the Kiawah Island Ocean Course. This sets the golfer a variety of challenges to test most types of approach shot, including Par Three tee shots, fairway approaches and greenside bunker shots. It is a highly-popular taster for full-length golf course play on SkyTrak.

This very special Challenge within SkyTrak Premium is provided as a result of SkyTrak’s proud partnership with World Golf Tour (WGT Golf), the #1 online golf game worldwide.

In addition to the included 9-Shot Closest To The Hole Challenge at Kiawah Island from WGT Golf, golfers can also pay a further annual subscription to play a different 9-Shot Closest To The Hole Challenge at each of WGT Golf’s 20 high-definition golf courses, including St Andrews, Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Celtic Manor, Pinehurst No.2, Royal St George’s and Chambers Bay.

And golfers will not have to wait long before full-course play is available, tee to green, on all 18 holes of each of the WGT Golf courses, again for an annual subscription.

A PC version of the SkyTrak App will be available in autumn 2015. Integration is underway with several software suppliers to enable SkyTrak users to play a huge variety of virtual golf courses on their desktop computer or laptop. These include suppliers such as TruGolf, who make the popular E6 Golf simulator software, and The Golf Club Game, which features thousands of virtual golf courses designed by online users worldwide.

SkyTrak users can access a wide and fast-growing range of golf courses to play when they use it as a golf simulator. A menu in the SkyTrak App enables golfers to choose which golf course software they want to play through their SkyTrak, by paying annual subscriptions which differ according to the supplier.

“SkyTrak delivers commercial-quality ball flight simulations which reflect a golfer’s actual performance for game improvement and entertainment at a price far below comparable alternatives,” said Jacqui Surman, Senior Vice-President International Sales & Marketing at SkyCaddie. “This enables golf professionals to use it in custom-fitting situations, and it also provides an accurate and realistic in-home golf experience that both entertains and makes you a better golfer.

“The addition of WGT Golf and other software suppliers to SkyTrak allows us to add more ways for golfers to practice, play and be entertained on some of the world’s most famous golf courses.

“With SkyTrak, golf clubs can now install a reference-quality golf simulator in their clubhouse, and can invite golfers to play on rainy days or after dark” said Surman. “The potential to build social events around SkyTrak is a significant factor in its growing success.

“SkyTrak will also be popular with golf professionals who are looking to introduce accurate launch monitor technology to their golf lessons and custom fitting sessions.

“But most of all, SkyTrak is for the golfer. SkyTrak opens up, at a new affordable low price point, the spectacle of playing in a high-end high-definition golf simulator at your own home – and it is portable enough to carry around to a friend’s house when a group of people want to play virtual golf together”.

SkyTrak is recommended for use with the following compatible iOS products: iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 2 (with Retina), iPad Mini 3. Versions of the SkyTrak App for other platforms will be released in due course.

Pre-orders for SkyTrak should be placed now, to avoid disappointment when the product begins shipping to UK golf stores in November 2015.

To order SkyTrak in the UK please contact SkyCaddie UK at sales@skycaddiegps.co.uk or call 01844 296350.

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www.skycaddie.co.uk / www.golfskypro.com / www.golfskytrak.com

SkyGolf, maker of SkyCaddie, the #1-Rated and Most-Trusted Rangefinder in Golf, is a private company specialising in the development of innovative positioning systems and technology specifically designed to help golfers play better and have more fun. SkyCaddie is the Official Rangefinder of PGA of Canada and PGA of Sweden, and a Partner of the PGA of Great Britain & Ireland. The overall mission of SkyCaddie is to help golfers play better with better information while respecting the long-standing traditions of the game. By using technology responsibly and within the spirit and rules of golf, SkyGolf provides golfers of all skill levels with better and more rewarding golf experiences. The Company's innovative products include: SkyCaddie®, rangefinders that are preloaded and ready-to-play out of the box; SkyPro®, golf's most powerful swing/putting analyser and training tool; SkyGolf 360, golf's fastest growing community where golfers can go to connect to their Game, their Courses, their Equipment, their Golf Professional and to one another; SkyCourse™ Technologies, a company that equips golf course superintendents with tools they need to complete daily property management tasks with less effort, less time and less money, through a unique combination of precision GPS maps, web-based technologies and mobile mapping solutions; the new SkyTrak™ Launch Monitor, the only company in the golf industry positioned to deliver game improvement solutions during practice, play, lessons and fitting at the course or at home; and the SkyCaddie Game Tracker GT1, the industry’s first fully integrated rangefinder and game tracking solution utilizing SkyCaddie’s proprietary TruGround course library. For more information, visit: www.skygolf.com, www.skycaddie.com, www.golfskypro.com, www.skytrakgolf.com, www.skycourse.com, and www.skygolfgametracker.com.