SkyTrak 6.2 Update: 35+ New Features for Your SkyTrak Golf Simulator

We’re back today with the SkyTrak ST MAX, but more importantly, the SkyTrak 6.2 software update. This is bringing 35-plus new features to the SkyTrak software. As I’ve mentioned in the past, SkyTrak is one of those set-it-down-and-play devices. It does have some limitations I’ve pointed out, like a smaller hitting area and a little shot delay, but I continue to find customers who gravitate toward this unit, one because of the price and two because of the simplicity, and that has to do with software as well. They have powerful desktop software, which we’ll use today, but they also have mobile device software that is one of the best mobile course play options out there, and it includes TrackMan mapping and Foresight Sports mapping.

So, 35-plus new features, gameplay enhancements and fixes. I’ll go over the important stuff. There’s a whole new profile area, a connection wizard, an improved My Bag, a recent activity experience, and an improved gameplay experience that includes a new scorecard, ground physics, green physics and redesigned drop options. There are club recommendations as part of the mapping experience in My Bag, new pin positions along with new tee markers, and more options like tournament mode and the ability to add and remove players during a round. There are smoother play controls, dozens of refinements, custom measurement settings, new hotkeys and auto-updated courses. You can now even manage your courses without being connected to your device, so you can download courses while your unit is charging.

In settings, I have an Elite membership that includes everything: the range, the Sim Club membership, PinSeeker access, practice ranges, game evaluations, and all the Foresight and TrackMan courses. You can set your language, temperature, speeds and elevation. Notifications are now inside the app, which I believe is new. Stats is a new way of looking at your shot history, shots hit and completed rounds, including average Shot Score. Downloads let you manage courses and ranges, sort newest to oldest or largest to smallest, and offload courses if you don’t have enough room on your computer. Device settings let you make sure your tilt and roll aren’t too far off and show your software version, and support is built right in with tutorials.

The new connection hub: when you select ST MAX and wireless, it allows a network connection. The unit connects to your local Wi-Fi, the software connects to the local Wi-Fi, and it’s that easy. It’s a more simplistic way to go through it, and I like the local connection.

In the Workshop you can easily edit your bag: driver, three-wood, three hybrid, four iron through nine iron, pitching wedge, gap wedge. My gap wedge is actually 50 degrees, and they don’t have a 50 degree option, so that’s some feedback for them. For a simple mapping, let’s say you only want to map your wedges. I like that it has this ability; you don’t have to map your entire bag. I select my 50, 54 and 58, choose how many shots per club, and how many of the best shots are selected. If I hit 10 and take the best three, I know my gaps on my best shots. Taking five is more of an average. You can see the gap tolerances, and the intended gap can be modified. Hit apply and it takes you right out to the range. When you exit, you can do a new mapping, repeat the mapping or exit, so it’s fewer clicks.

For course play, I used On-Course Practice at Pebble Beach on the TrackMan map so I could hit multiple shots into the green and show the updated physics. I really like the TrackMan maps, and the Foresight maps have some unique courses too. SkyTrak puts its own twist on everything. I set altitude to my location so you’re playing to what you’d expect at your local course. It asks you to select a club for the session so it tracks data for that club. Expected distance is on the right, which I like, and you can hide it. I told them you can move it in course play but not practice, and I don’t like the ball being covered up. They said they liked that feedback. With the gear icon you can change holes or click and drag the ball anywhere, like the bunker. It’s seamless and fast, and it worked on my iPad too.

First shot with a normal 54 degree wedge, I hit it a little heavy. It came up short, bounced on the hill and kicked back, a good first look at the ground physics, with lower backspin. The next normal swing had 8,615 rpm of spin, hit and spun back a little, with a higher descent angle because I tend to flight my wedges up. Trying to cut one, I double crossed it: 2.8 out-to-in with the face 3.9 closed, so over a degree closed versus my path. The next one I pushed too far and spun more, and we got to see more ground reaction. I want to hit misses, because it’s real life. Then a cut with about 9,000 rpm, 1.9 out-to-in and 0.9 closed, that spun back a little. Another cut jumped up to almost 10,000 rpm and nearly dunked in the cup. The path and face to target read zero; it was hit really well, and it hit dead center on the screen. The ST MAX especially does a really good job with club data.

On draws, the first was a little thin with 6.8 in-to-out and not quite as much spin as I’d like. The next was 4.1 in-to-out and 1.2 open to target, right on the back of the green and spinning back. A lot of people play into a net, and there’s that little shot delay you almost don’t notice once you play enough with SkyTrak. Some hate it, some don’t mind it at all, and some love it because they look over at a monitor and the ball is already flying. A final cut shot was struck well, just left of the pin.

That’s the SkyTrak 6.2 software update with the SkyTrak ST MAX. Let me know what you think in the comments, and if you’re looking for a discount on a SkyTrak, I have an affiliate link and discount code that gets you the best pricing and helps support the channel.