Unboxing and first look at the new Shot Scope G5 GPS golf watch

Introduction and Pricing

In this video, we are going to unbox and take a first look at this. This is the brand new Shot Scope G5 GPS golf watch. Now, this is an affordable GPS golf watch packed with features which retails at £150. Now I’ve put a link to the product page in the description below and I’ve also included my promo code, which may or may not, depending on when you’re watching this video, get you 15% off of your purchase price. In this particular video, we’re going to unbox and take a closer look at the G5. If you’re looking to find out more about the watch and its features, I’ve got a full overview video which I’ll link to in the card above and the description below. But for now, let’s take a closer look at what comes inside the G5 box.

Packaging and Customization

Okay, so let’s unbox the Shot Scope G5. Now you’ll see in front of me I actually have three different boxes. Usually with the Shot Scope products, you just receive one box, but this is because with the G5, Shot Scope now allows you to choose two different straps from a range of 12 colors and allows you to choose the case and color for the watch itself. So the watch itself you can get a case in either gray or black, and then when it comes to your two straps, you can choose two colors from a range of 12, and there are some really really nice colors in there, so there should be something to suit you both on and off of the golf course. You’ll see here I have gone for the black strap which we’ll take a look at in a minute and I’ve also gone for this midnight blue. In terms of the color of the actual casing for the G5, I’ve gone for black. So you could say I’ve gone for fairly boring colors, but there are some really exciting colors there to choose from. This ‘Build Your Watch’ feature is available on the Shot Scope website, it’s part of the process when you’re buying your device. I’ll put a direct link to that in the description below and I’ve also added my unique discount code in there, which may or may not work and get you 15% off of your Shot Scope G5 or other Shot Scope products depending on when you are watching this video. So check the link in the description, make sure you enter that code at checkout to see if it works for you. So we’ll come back to looking at these two straps in just a second, but let’s first of all take a look at the G5 box. So this is very much in keeping with the other Shot Scope products in terms of design. It’s a really nice, well-designed package. To me, it’s very Apple-esque, I always say that about the Shot Scope products. It’s fairly basic, but what I like about it in particular, what surprised me, is actually just how small it is and how lightweight, and that’s partly because presumably these straps are here and not inside the box, so that’s why it’s going to be smaller and going to be lighter. But less packaging is always a good thing in terms of the environment, and also I think on the shelf this will look really really nice in the Pro Shop. So let’s get this one open up. We’re grabbing a little knife here and I’m just going to just slice along the back here and let’s see what we get inside the box. So there’s a little plastic tray here and we’ll peel that out and we have a couple of different things here. So we’ve got presumably the charging cable and we’ve got the Shot Scope main watch here. And then I’ve noticed when I was pulling out we also have the quick start user guide here.

Charging and Initial Setup

Now, if you’re familiar with other Shot Scope products, you get these little quick start user guides. They’re basically designed just to get you up and running, get you up to speed with the device and allow you to take out on the golf course and make sure you’ve set up properly. There is a full user guide here, you can scan the QR code, but with the G5, it’s designed basically to be taken out of the box, put together and taken straight to the golf course, so you shouldn’t really need to probably do much with this, but I would always encourage you to look through it. You’ll see here we need to charge the watch before we play and download the Shot Scope app. If you’re not a Shot Scope user already, you’ll need to download from the Google Play or the App Store and register for an account. You won’t need this with the G5 just to use it, but you will need this in order to be able to install firmware updates, to update the time whenever the clocks change and also to update your courses. So get the latest course maps. The device does come pre-loaded with over 36,000 golf courses, so you can just take it and go and play. But if updates to the maps have been released, you’ll need to connect your device to the app in order to get access to them, but all the information is in this quick start guide, so I would take a look at that when you get a chance. In terms of the charging cable here, just having a quick look at it inside this packet, it looks to be the same as the X5 charging cable. So let’s have a quick look at that. So yep, it’s the exact same as far as I can see. So it’s USB into your wall for your power, and then it’s this unique Shot Scope sort of charging cable here. I did query with Shot Scope with the X5 why they had gone for this over micro USB or USBC, and the reason for that is to keep the device small. So you’ll see I’ve got the X5 here, it’s small and it’s lightweight. If they were to put another type of charging in there and it would be considerably bigger and heavier, so this is probably not a bad choice. Let’s just take this out of the plastic packet. We’ll move that inside.

Watch Body and Interface

So it’s incredibly light, I mean this is really, really light, and it looks it actually looks like it’s the same casing pretty much from the, I don’t know if you can see from the X5 there, and there at the back is where we connect the charging cable. So let’s just quickly clip that in. It’s a little clip and it’s pretty secure, to be honest, and they’re never usually the longest of cables, but yeah, it clips in and it should hopefully charge without any issues. Let’s just be careful taking that out. So we’ll leave that for now. Now the watch itself, this is not touch screen like the X5, so you’ll notice there are two buttons on either side, so we’ve got up, down, back and select. That’s what we use to navigate through the watch, but it looks really nice. It doesn’t have the the fancy bezel that we’ve got on the X5 there, but this is designed to be a fairly basic watch, it’s designed just to give you GPS information. It still looks good, and I’m sure once the straps are on, it’ll look even better, but it’s basically designed to give you that GPS information on the golf course, but also be worn off of it. So yeah, it’s really light, looks really nice. I like that Shot Scope have gone with this circular approach to the watches, and the other thing I quite like is it’s not too big and bulky. Sometimes with these watches these days they tend to be really big, they’ve also got lots of technology built into them and they just look a bit too big, to be honest, but that that looks to be a nice size. So let’s I’ll take my X5 off just now so that we can pop this on our wrist.

Strap Fitting and Comfort

But we’ll need to probably take one of these straps first. So this is the black strap here. Let’s open this one up and have a look. So we’ve got two straps as I said, this is a black one. Feels really, really nice. It’s incredibly smooth, very very flexible, and it’s made basically from, let’s have a look, it’s made from silicone with dust resistant coating, so hopefully it won’t allow all the dust or any sand on the golf course to stick to that. So let’s just peel this apart. And actually I’ve noticed whenever I’m pulling it, those little nibs on the bands here are clipping in place, so that’s designed basically to stop this strap from flapping about, which is great. So I think there’s there’s one on each of them actually, so that’s a really good thing to have. And the other thing that I’ve noticed with this is, unlike the X5 and the V3, which some users have claimed to be a bit frustrated about having the straps on what they deem to be the wrong way around, that’s because the technology for pin collect and for shot tracking is built into the strap here, this particular part of the strap with the buckle on it. With the G5, because it doesn’t have shot tracking capabilities, it doesn’t have that technology built into the strap and therefore presumably we can put the strap around this way or if you want to have a more traditional way, we could have it that way there. So let’s have a look at how we can connect the strap. So we’ve just got a couple of pins here, and in a presumably we flick this up and then slide it across, there we go, and that hides one end, and then we’re going to just pop this into the watch. So let’s turn it over, so we’ve got a couple of little fixing holes there, let’s give this a go. So make sure we do it the right way around, pop that into that hole there, make sure that is peeled in, and that’s it clipped in. And then I’ll just make sure I pop that down so they can come loose. There we go, got one of them in. This one will fit that way around. Same thing, we’ve got a little pin here, let’s pop that. We’ll try and get this one in as well. So same as last time, putting the hole for one point, oops, I push that wee bit too far there, into there, and then let’s see if we can get that to pop in. It’s a little bit fiddly, the good news is it’s probably not the kind of thing you’re going to be doing very often. There we go, that’s it locked in. So we’ve now got the strap connected, and now it looks a lot more like a watch. I’ve got a little bit of Shot Scope branding just here, but I really I’m really liking that strap, it’s nice and thin because obviously it doesn’t have the technology built in for collecting your strokes and it feels really nice. So let’s put this on to my wrist. The other thing I’ve noticed is it’s quite a long strap, and there are a lot of holes here. Some users have mentioned in the past that if you’ve got quite large wrists they ran out of holes or the strap wasn’t long enough. I look like I’ve got a lot of holes either side here, so I can’t see that being an issue if you do have particularly large wrists. But there we go, in position. So we’ve got it on, it feels it feels even lighter than the X5, to be honest. It’s only 42 grams, which is incredibly light, and that looks really good on the wrist. It’s not too big. There’s a bit of depth there, but in terms of its size, it doesn’t look too good for a big from a wrist. There we go.

Initial Power On and Settings

And you’ll see it’s actually already turned on, and we’ve got the time displayed there. So it says it’s 3:58 on the 24th of January. Now that isn’t the correct time. I know we’ll need to connect it to the mobile app in order for that to update. That’s how it works whenever you update when the clocks change, you basically just connect it to that. But it looks like we’ve got plenty of battery in there, and let’s test out these buttons here. So we’ve got back button, down, up, and select. So select takes me into the main menu there, and let’s use down, so we can go through, and you’ll see it’s really quite responsive. So the minute I’m pressing these buttons, it is moving up and down, which is great. The screen’s nice and bright, it’s a nice size as well, and you’ll see it’s backlit as well, so it’s backlitting in it will switch off after a couple of seconds just to preserve that battery, but it should be enough whenever we’re using it in your house or in the dark at home or out in the golf course if you’re playing when it’s dark. Let’s let’s go down to settings. We’re going to settings. So the first option here is clock face. Let’s have a look at that. So we’ll go select, and this allows us to change the clock face to different clock faces, very much like the X5, and I’ll go for that one, I quite like that, and then I assume we’ll just go back. There we go. Confirm score. So there’s an option on the watch to track your score as you play. It doesn’t track every shot like the X5 does, but it will allow you to use the digital scorecard built in just to track your score so you can see it as you play and at the end of your round. Let’s go down, see what else we have.

Demo Mode and Display Options

We’ve also got a demo mode on this. So if I go to select, yep, that’s really good. So it allows me to see basically or show you what the screen is going to look like on the golf course. So we’ve got the distance in yards presumably to the middle of the green in large numbering there, and then we’ve got the front and back. So yep, front the green, back the green, middle of the green, hole 18 is a par 4 in this case, and the plus three, that will be your collective score, your cumulative score for your round. Let’s go through and see what else we’ve got. So we’ll not end the demo. See if there’s anything more. This will be the hole, and this will be the score entry screen, so you’ll be able to enter your score, so you can go up and down, and it tells you the hole and the par. And this is the distance to the dog leg, which is a really good addition. On the X5, I’ve used this quite a lot already, especially in courses I’m not familiar with. It’s good to see how far you have to go into a dog leg. And then we’ve got the layup points there, so what you’ll just need to hit to lay up to 150 or leave 200. And then we’ve got our hazards. So this shows you basically the location of the hazard. So if it’s on the right of the screen, the hazard’s on the right of the hole, and if it’s on the left, it’s on the left. It also shows you the distance to reach the hazard and to carry it. So we’ve got 45 to reach the water, 48 to carry it, 93 to reach the bunker, 98 to carry it. And if I go down, let’s see if we’ve got anything else. So that’s just gone through all of the demo. Let’s end the demo. Let’s go down. Have a look at something else that I want to show you. We’ve got front, middle, and back layout. Let’s go into select this, and this is something that’s really interesting here. You can change the display for the screen when you’re playing. So if you just want to see the yardage to the middle of the green, you can change to this large display. So we’ve got the large center displayed, or we can have different ways of displaying that information. So this is going to appeal to people who maybe find a little bit difficult to see what the yardage is on the screen, or if you just want to have it displayed at all times and quickly glance at it and see the yardage to the middle. So that’s really interesting. Let’s put that one on by going to select.

Additional Settings and Conclusion

And a couple of other things. Units. So we can see we can change between yards and meters as you can always do. And let’s go into battery life. So straight out of the box, it’s got 83%. Now Shot Scope claim that you should be able to get two rounds out of this in its GPS mode, which is the only mode that’s available. And you should be able to, if you’re using it as a general watch, to get 10 or more days out of it, which is really impressive. So that’s something I’ll obviously be checking out whenever I’m testing it and reviewing it, and I’ll report back on my review for this. But yeah, it’s good to see that it actually comes with some batteries. So if you do get one of these, you could take it straight to the golf course and just go out and play with it. So a couple of other options in here. You can set up to make it a button lock, so you have to unlock it every time you’re using it. But let’s just go back and go through. So we’ve got Play Golf, Settings, or Shut Down. So there’s not too many menus in this watch, which is really quite good. It’s very very kind of straightforward and easy to use. I love how quick and responsive it is. Click on the buttons, and it’s nice and clear, and it feels comfortable. So there you have it, that’s an unboxing and first look at the brand new Shot Scope G5. Personally, I think this will sell really, really well for Shot Scope. It’s packed with features, it’s affordable, and it’s going to appeal to those who are looking for the reliability of a Shot Scope product, but perhaps not too fussed about the performance tracking that some of their other products provide. If you’re interested in finding out more about the G5, as I said, I’ve got a separate video giving you a full overview, or you can hit the link in the description below to visit their main product page. Just remember there is that handy promo code which may or may not work and give you 15% off. Next up, if you want to find out how the Shot Scope G5 performed out on the golf course, I’ve got a full review video which you can view just here.