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Snooper Shotsaver S430

Snooper Shotsaver S430
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Readers have inquired about the Snooper Shotsaver line of products, so we are including a brief overview. Please note that as Shotsaver products have an extremely limited number of courses available within the U.S. and are manufactured and distributed within Europe, we are not offering a full review at this time.

The Snooper Shotsaver S430 features a 3.5″ color LCD, with distance readings and hole information in large format. Distances are available to the front, middle and back of the green, as well as to other targets such as bunkers, trees and water hazards. As with SkyCaddie devices, Shotsaver plots all courses on foot (!) to ensure maximum accuracy. In addition to distance information, the Shotsaver S430 can also record distance measurements for each club and save this information, and has a scorecard for up to four players.

The Shotsaver S430 comes with over 4,500 preloaded courses in Europe, with capacity to store up to 20,000 courses. The S430 is waterproof and comes with a changeable, rechargeable battery that Snooper claims to provide up to 14 hours of battery life.

At £250 retail but lacking any per course or yearly fees, the Shotsaver S430 is competitively priced with the latest full-featured golf GPS devices with large color touchscreen displays. The Shotsaver only supports PCs.

Retail price: £249.99

The Shotsaver S430 is available directly from Snooper.

Since we won’t have a chance to review the Shotsaver S430 unless we head to Europe to play, if you have had the opportunity to use the S430, please comment and let us know what you think!


  • Jimohara274

    this is a fairly robust unit especially compared with its predecessor the S320. There is a lot to like about it but a few notable downsides all associated with the fact that it isn’t designed as a hand held unit and is best utilised as a trolley mounted unit. Snooper obviously won’t disadvantage themselves in the marketplace by saying so but a) it’s a bit too large to fit comfortably in the pocket. b) the screen can’t be locked meaning that quite often when you take it out of your pocket the screen has “moved on or back” c) there is no effective method of securing it to your bag/belt. By all means have a look if you use a trolly etc but if you carry then look elsewhere

  • Alan

     shotsaver s430 nice solid feeling peice of kit. readable for old eyes and sunlight.the touch screen can be irritatingly unresponsive as can the customer support when requesting course mapping.trolley bracket has weak point and broke the first time I tried it.Think I could have done better.