What Are Shot Scope MyStrategy and GPS Course Maps?
Updated
Shot Scope's MyStrategy is a pre-round planning tool that pairs GPS aerial course maps with your own shot-tracking data, so you can decide where to aim and what club to hit before you tee off. The GPS watch maps then carry that plan onto the course. Both features sit inside the Shot Scope ecosystem alongside shot tracking, strokes gained, and traditional statistics, and they are most useful if you already record shots with a Shot Scope watch or tags.
What MyStrategy does
MyStrategy is listed on the site under "On the Course," next to GPS Aerial Maps, GPS Watch Maps, and Course Mapping. The name signals its purpose: building a strategy for a specific course rather than looking at generic yardages.
The practical value comes from combining two inputs:
- Course geometry — the mapped layout of each hole, shown as aerial imagery.
- Your own tendencies — the distances and dispersion patterns captured by Shot Scope's shot tracking.
For example, if your tracked data shows a consistent miss to the right with driver, MyStrategy gives you a way to plan a tee shot around that miss instead of defaulting to driver on every par 4. The site frames the broader product line around lowering score and handicap, and strategy planning is presented as part of that game-improvement loop rather than a standalone map viewer.
GPS aerial maps vs. GPS watch maps
The site separates these into two entries, which reflects two different moments of use:
| Feature | Where you use it | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| GPS Aerial Maps | Phone or dashboard, before or during the round | Seeing the full hole layout, hazards, and landing zones |
| GPS Watch Maps | On your wrist during play | Quick front/middle/back and hole-shape reference without pulling out a phone |
| Course Mapping | Behind the scenes | The underlying mapped course data both views depend on |
The distinction matters for buying decisions. If you want to study a hole in detail, the aerial view is the working surface. If you want a glanceable number and hole shape while standing over the ball, the watch is. Shot Scope's GPS watches — the V5 and G6 are the models named in the site navigation, alongside the X5 Track Watch in the shot-tracking section — are the hardware that delivers the on-course view.
How it connects to shot tracking
MyStrategy and the maps are not isolated features. The site's feature list groups them with Shot Scope 6 Strokes Gained, Track your game, Course Analysis, and Traditional Statistics. That grouping is the tell: the maps tell you what the hole looks like, and the tracking data tells you what you actually do on holes like it.
A workable loop looks like this:
- Play rounds with shot tracking active so your distances and dispersion are recorded.
- Review Course Analysis and strokes gained to find where you lose shots — off the tee, approach, or around the green.
- Build a MyStrategy plan for your next round that accounts for those patterns.
- Use the GPS watch maps on the course to execute the plan.
Who each piece is for
- You plan rounds in advance and want a reason behind each club choice: MyStrategy is the relevant feature, and it depends on having tracking data worth planning around.
- You mainly want yardages and hole layout on the course: the GPS watch maps and a GPS watch are the core purchase; strategy tools are a bonus.
- You want the data layer first: shot tracking (watches or tags) is the prerequisite — without recorded shots, MyStrategy has little of your own game to work with.
The site also lists a H4 GPS Handheld and H50 GPS Handheld under GPS Handhelds, plus the CONNEX tags, so handheld and tag-based routes into the same mapping and tracking system exist alongside watches.
What the site does not specify
The available page material names these features and their placement in the product structure but does not publish subscription terms, course coverage counts, or whether MyStrategy requires a dashboard login. The navigation does include a Dashboard Login and a Coaching Platform, which suggests account-based access to at least part of the toolset, but treat specific access conditions as something to confirm on the site rather than assume.