Voice Caddie T11 Pro

[TonyRo]

Anyone have one already and gotten it on the course?

[Emmitsburg]

I am a 10 year veteran of Garmin golf watches. Most recent was the S62. I would love to upgrade to the S70 but already have an Apple watch so would not be interested in the fitness features. At 50% of the cost of the S70 it looks to be a good alternative. Have not seen any reviews or it even being offered other than on the VC website. 

[clover]

fwiw- Costco now has the T9 on sale for $160 (down from $200). It’s listed on the website as the T8 but when I received it last week it was a T9 (!) accompanied by a letter from VC saying the T8 was temporarily unavailable so they upgraded my order to a T9 for no charge.

I don’t know if they are doing that with every order but thought it would be useful to pass along the tip.

I’ve only played one round with it and was impressed even though I didn’t know how to use half the functionality. I found some help on YouTube and I think I’ll be able to utilize everything next time out.

[Outlawx88]

I have been a Garmin user for the last 4 years and wanted to upgrade to a golf only watch with some features like temp and wind/elevation. So I purchased this.

The construction is quality and the accuracy is top notch. The display is easy to see in direct Texas sunlight. 
 

The not so good, my home course is not mapped. None of the newer features work and customer service is not responding to the emails and calls I have put in. 
 

Overall I am hopeful they resolve this otherwise I have a really nice paper weight for all intents and purposes. 

[Emmitsburg]

I can understand the frustration of your home course not being mapped. Have you tried it on any other courses in your area?

[Outlawx88]

9 hours ago, Emmitsburg said:

I can understand the frustration of your home course not being mapped. Have you tried it on any other courses in your area?

I don’t really play anywhere else regularly unless I get an invite elsewhere. Like I said I’ve contacted them but I’ve not heard anything and it’s been about a week now. 
 

Shot scope and garmin were much quicker to respond and resolve the issues I’ve had in the past. 
 

 

Side note when doing swing speed training I set it up for left handed swings and it seemed to work as well as the right side swings. So for the lefty’s out there wondering if it works now it does. Catches about 8-9/10 swings same as right handed swings. 

[TonyRo]

I ordered one as well, I'll report back after some initial testing. If my home courses aren't mapped it's going back for sure, that'd be a huge frustration. I have heard similar complaints in the past about Voice Caddie customer service.

[Emmitsburg]

I have been hesitant to order as first run offerings of anything can tend to end up with us being Beta lesters. I know the Shot Scope X5 was a disaster. Proof of that is their latest offering the V5 which has abandoned the touch screen. Have been playing the S62 for several years, just hate to pay the high price for the S70. The T11 looks to have just about all the features of the Garmin without the fitness stuff. Since I do have an Apple watch, I am looking for strictly a golf watch.

 

Looking forward to your review Tony.

[Outlawx88]

3 hours ago, TonyRo said:

I ordered one as well, I'll report back after some initial testing. If my home courses aren't mapped it's going back for sure, that'd be a huge frustration. I have heard similar complaints in the past about Voice Caddie customer service.

Best to download the app now and check. The website is not helpful. 
 

Also should note the user manual is also lacking. 

[TonyRo]

6 minutes ago, Outlawx88 said:

Also should note the user manual is also lacking. 

Yeah, I already tried to look at the manual because I was curious about all the features, and found it to be tremendously disappointing. Good call on the app - I did download it and can confirm my main two courses are mapped. 

[Outlawx88]

2 hours ago, TonyRo said:

Yeah, I already tried to look at the manual because I was curious about all the features, and found it to be tremendously disappointing. Good call on the app - I did download it and can confirm my main two courses are mapped. 

Still trying to figure out how to navigate it on the course. Not sure how to change the flag placement outside of the approach screen. When you get on green it gets weird. 

 

Shot tracking is superb including putts/chips.

[Emmitsburg]

Just played my first round with the T11. Overall, I was very impressed. The positives:

• Recognized the course and connected with satellites. It did take about 2 minutes but did connect.
• One you walk to the first tee the hole immediately appears. Even a fly over. 
• Once you hit your shot it shows your tempo swing. For every other swing it shows your tempo and asks you to enter the club you used. So you can track your tempo for each club if you like.
• Once you get to your second shot, you see the green with slope along with the F/M/B distances. 
• Once on the green you get putt distances. (More on that later)
• When you walk off the green, the watch will vibrate asking you to enter your score. It's a little different in that it asks for shots and putts separately. This took a few holes to get straight.
• Once you are done with the round, you upload your round to My Golf Swing. This is where you can review your score card. It has overall round statistics, Best score, Avg GIR, Ave putts per round, Driver distances (Longest and average) Driver tempo. 
• Detailed score card with: Hole, Score, Putts, Penalty, GIR, Tempo and driver distance.
• This is where you can edit any incorrect score.
• It also shows every hole with distances for every shot. 
• Once you get several rounds in the system, it claims it will provide club suggestions.

Having played with several Garmin watches for the past 10 years, I think this is a keeper. The OLED screen is fantastic. 

 

Now some of the negatives:

• Have heard some negative comments about customer support. 800# is not active. In researching my purchase, I was asking about their return policy, it took 2 days to get back to me in an email.
• They have a quick start user manual. However, I have not been able to find a detailed one. Here is what I need help understanding:
  • There was no wind direction
  • Not sure if the distances were actual or slope adjusted
  • Putting distances and how to set hole and placement of ball is a complete mystery to me.
  • Was able to load My Voice Caddie on my iPhone and iPad. Not sure if it is compatible with my Windows desktop. Really need to the larger screen for both editing and viewing. 
  • It does show an overview of each hole and shows every shot. However, it does not identify which club you hit after the driver. It would be nice to have a feature like Garmin where after each shot it asked you what club you hit.

Overall, I was very impressed with the watch. I have not played with the Garmin S70. (Used the S62 for two years). I did not consider the S70 for two reasons: price and my daily watch is an Apple so I did not need all the fitness upgrades. I think if you do not need the fitness features, this watch, at 50% of the cost of the S70, is fantastic.

 

John

 

[Golfcrzy]

How is the drawing of the course compared to the s70? 
 

laggy or smooth? 

[Emmitsburg]

The course drawing was fine. The OLED face is fantastic. However, after my second round, a few comments:

• Need more than 5 minutes to connect to satellites. Almost had to tee off without a connection.
• Really need a full manual. There are a lot of features that are not intuitive. I looked at the T9 manual but was not much help as quite a few changes to the T11.
• Green reading was impossible without detailed directions.
• Did no see any wind direction.
• As far as I know you cannot see the scorecard and your running score during the round. Play was really slow, so we skipped #3. It gave me a par, but I did not know this until I uploaded the round after playing.
• No way to check the time while you are playing.
• The most bazar thing was that for both rounds when I finished, the clock was exactly one hour behind the actual time. Once I logged into the My Voice Caddie app, the time corrected itself.

Will give it a few more rounds but looks like they are expecting us to be their Beta testers. 

[Golfcrzy]

Thanks for the update

[SwingBlues]

On 6/27/2024 at 11:15 AM, Emmitsburg said:

The course drawing was fine. The OLED face is fantastic. However, after my second round, a few comments:

• Need more than 5 minutes to connect to satellites. Almost had to tee off without a connection.
• Really need a full manual. There are a lot of features that are not intuitive. I looked at the T9 manual but was not much help as quite a few changes to the T11.
• Green reading was impossible without detailed directions.
• Did no see any wind direction.
• As far as I know you cannot see the scorecard and your running score during the round. Play was really slow, so we skipped #3. It gave me a par, but I did not know this until I uploaded the round after playing.
• No way to check the time while you are playing.
• The most bazar thing was that for both rounds when I finished, the clock was exactly one hour behind the actual time. Once I logged into the My Voice Caddie app, the time corrected itself.

Will give it a few more rounds but looks like they are expecting us to be their Beta testers. 

 

I don't own a T11 but I do own a T9 for a couple of years now so some of these issues you mentioned I have seen in my T9 so here are some suggestions:

 

>>As far as I know you cannot see the scorecard and your running score during the round. Play was really slow, so we skipped #3. It gave me a par, but I did not

>>know this until I uploaded the round after playing.

That is the "default" score, my T9 does this. You can stop play at the 9th and it will set Par for the 10-18th. I have not found a way to edit the score/shots/putts while the watch is in "golf mode" so I do this afterwards in the app

 

>>> No way to check the time while you are playing.

Try changing the screen using the swipe with the fingers. That's how I see the time with my T9

 

>>>Green reading was impossible without detailed directions.

I bought my T9 for the heat map of the green. To be honest, I rarely use it. My T9 is slow in orienting itself and I am not sure if it even does that at all - so IF I use it, I check the shape of the green. I was hoping this would be an improvement in the T11. May be NOT.

 

>>>Will give it a few more rounds but looks like they are expecting us to be their Beta testers.  

Yeah, it felt like that sometimes with my T9 but I had some responses to my issues from Customer Support, took a day or 2 but they did respond and fix the issues

 

So does your T11 give you options to select a tee: red, white, blue etc?? This was truly a let down in the app/watch.

 

I am not sure if I want to invest in the T11, might look at the Shotscope V5 but that also, it seems, have its share of the problems as well. My T9 is perfectly fine, it was stellar in the days but I was also hoping VoiceCaddie would learn a ton and improve the T11 a lot since the T9...hmmmh.

 

 

[SwingBlues]

Just a quick update. 

 

I bought the T11 and had it for 5 weeks, went thru 5 rounds of golf and in the end - returned it back to Playbetter

 

While the T11 screen was SO GOOD compared to my T9, my watch had a bad sensor or something and it just failed to track my driver tee shots. Not once but the majority of the time. Not good.

 

I would walk up to the tee and check the watch and  it was ready for a shot with a "Shot" icon. I did my preshot routine and then went to hit the drive. However, when I went to check and see if the watch detected the driver or not, 90% of the time it did not. However, when I forgo the pre-shot routine, it would track the drive. Weird. I never had this issue with the T9

 

When I approach my 2nd shot with the iron, it would pick up those shots. What the Hell!

 

 

I did approach VoiceCaddie support. Worked with David and all he would only say to update the firmware. I did that but that did not fix the issue with my watch. I sent VCS multiple emails but they did not care. No response or reply at all. This is extremely poor IMO. I've used them before for the T9 issues and they have been OK at best

 

While the T11 is great it is useless if it cannot fundamentally detect my drive. I went back to my T9 and its performing flawlessly and if the screen was a bit brighter it would be a long time keeper. For now I will continue to use it and perhaps like a Shot Scope V5 or the next Gen of Garmin post S70

 

Anyway, beware of the T11. I should not Playbetter was absolutely great in helping me return the defective watch 👍

 

 

Edited January 20 by SwingBlues

[Spinozist]

...I had a number of issues with this watch, number one of which I could not get the firmware updated. I tried on IOS, Windows, Android, and MacOS. There were some other issues, like the lack of flyover which was on the T9, but the firmware was the worst. The hardware itself is great, however.

[Cwing]

Any updates from users with this watch going into the 2025 season?

[Cwing]

Does this watch communicate with the apple watch / heath app? 

[PSUgolf]

Just ordered one last night with the Pluggedingolf link for $50 off and another 5% off code I couldn't resist. Thought about Garmin 50 or 70, but the subscription model really turned me off of them, also only need this strictly for golf.

[PSUgolf]

Used for a round last night, came away very impressed. Picked up satellite and course right away, was accurate with distances and I found it easy to navigate and use the features.

[SwingBlues]

It's impressive & nice upgrade from the T9 especially the brighter screen

 

May be mine was just a bad unit as it would not work to track my drive on preshot routine VC support was no help

 

What was that 5% off code, care to share?

[PSUgolf]

19 hours ago, SwingBlues said:

It's impressive & nice upgrade from the T9 especially the brighter screen

 

May be mine was just a bad unit as it would not work to track my drive on preshot routine VC support was no help

 

What was that 5% off code, care to share?

It was just WELCOME5  for the extra 5% off. It worked with the link from pluggedingolf and breakingeighty reviews that give you the additional $50 off, paid $285 for it after the discount and code

[Cwing]

On 3/13/2025 at 5:18 PM, Cwing said:

Does this watch communicate with the apple watch / heath app? 

anyone?

[Brian_Mc]

Yep… just for steps. That update came out a couple months ago

 

[Cwing]

4 hours ago, Brian_Mc said:

Yep… just for steps. That update came out a couple months ago

 

Awesome! Thank You!

[PSUgolf]

Been using for several weeks now, really like the watch. It is accurate, has given me reads I did not see on a few greens that saved me a couple strokes. I had 1 where it definitely did not read it properly, but other than that it has been pretty spot on. Nice not having to pull out a range finder and shoot distance anymore

[BrendanH]

Ignore the question below, I have found more info on the Garmin S70 page that clarifies their 42mm/47mm sizes represent the case size not the display itself. Turns out the S70 42mm also has a 1.2" display, whereas the 47mm has a 1.4" display. So this T11 Pro is comparable to the 42mm S70.

 

Can anyone comment on the display size on this watch? The website lists it as 1.2" (or 30.48mm), whereas the S70 comes in 42mm for smaller size or 47mm for the larger one. Is there really that much of a difference or are these displays being measured differently? 

 

If someone with the T11 Pro could accurately measure the diameter of the usable display that would be a big help. Thanks!

Edited May 5 by BrendanH