RIDGELAND, MS… SkyGolf®, maker of SkyCaddie®, the most-trusted rangefinders in golf, announces SkyCaddie has extended its partnership with the Legends Tour to continue its status as the Official Distance Measuring Device on Tour.
With the last four successive Order of Merit winners using SkyCaddie GPS, and an 80% win rate on the 2024 Legends Tour, SkyCaddie’s remarkably successful run on Europe’s most prestigious over-50s Tour is now set to continue throughout 2025.
80% of last year’s Order Of Merit top 40 finishers used SkyCaddie GPS during tournament play. Of the 15 Legends Tour events in 2024 which permitted the use of DMDs, 12 were won by SkyCaddie GPS users including the season-ending MCB Tour Championship Mauritius event, where England’s Peter Baker scored his sixth Legends Tour victory using a SkyCaddie.
Commenting on the Tour’s relationship with SkyCaddie, Legends Tour Chief Marketing Officer, David Adams, said: “This is not only great news for the Tour, but also great for our players. The vast majority of the players on the Legends Tour actively use SkyCaddie products through choice, and that tells you everything you need to know about the competitive advantage a SkyCaddie gives to even the most demanding golfers.
“With dozens of victories and hundreds of Top Ten finishes since SkyCaddies were first used on the Legends Tour, their technology is proven to help not only Major winners and Ryder Cup legends but also amateurs starting their journey in golf. We are looking forward to another exciting season on the Legends Tour with SkyCaddie at the heart of the action.”
The 2025 Legends Tour features 18 events in 14 countries: all but three tournaments permit the use of distance measuring devices, where competitors can combine SkyCaddie’s ultra-accurate ground-mapped yardages with a variety of shot-saving features exclusive to SkyCaddie such as IntelliGreen Pro, which shows the exact green shape with distances to major contours, and IntelliPath which shows carry and runout distances, especially useful for tee shots with hazards ahead.
2024 WINSTONgolf Senior Open champion Van Phillips is a relative newcomer to SkyCaddie GPS, first using it in tournament play last year. “In the WINSTON I used it at some critical moments including crucial layups on par fives, including on the 17th in the final round which helped me to make a vital birdie” he said after his victory. “The SkyCaddie is very useful to get a quick layup yardage, and it also gives you a runout yardage to bunkers or water hazards ahead.”
Peter Baker, one of Team Europe’s stars in the 1993 Ryder Cup, said: “The new SkyCaddie PRO 5X has amazing accuracy, and the distances are instantaneous. I used it in every tournament in 2024.”
“With a SkyCaddie I could play a golf course blind if I had to – it is so detailed and shows me the whole golf course” said American golfer Clark Dennis, who won the Costa Navarino event on the Legends Tour in June 2024.
SkyCaddie’s status as the Official Distance Measuring Device of the Legends Tour comes after the company spent several seasons developing behind-the-scenes relationships with both players and officials on the Tour, proving the technology at dozens of tournaments.
Legends Tour officials now use SkyCaddie’s ground-mapped GPS yardages and its revolutionary SkyPins service to create pin sheets when setting each day’s pins, enabling competitors both to download the day’s accurate hole positions onto their SkyCaddies, and also to get a printed pin sheet for the day.
SkyCaddie and the Legends Tour will also be working together in 2025 to boost the brand’s exposure in the Tour’s TV broadcasts.
And new for 2025, SkyCaddie will be presenting more new technology to Legends Tour players, in the form of its revolutionary ‘SuperTags’ which power the GameTraX 360 performance tracking system.
“Naturally we are thrilled with the way things have gone for us on the Legends Tour over the last four years” said James Holmes, Director of Sales and Operations EMEA for SkyCaddie. “We became an official Partner of the Tour in 2023, after SkyCaddie users Stephen Dodd and James Kingston had both already won the Order Of Merit in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
“Then Peter Baker had his remarkable year in 2023, our first year as the Tour’s Official DMD, constantly using his SkyCaddie, and Adilson Da Silva – another SkyCaddie user – then won last year’s Race To Mauritius Order Of Merit. From small beginnings, eight out of ten Legends Tour players now trust SkyCaddie yardages to the pin, plus to layup points, runouts, carry distances and strategic landing spots on the greens at every tournament.
“These players appreciate that only SkyCaddie walks the course painstakingly, to ensure that golfers get the right yardage tee-to-green, no matter if they are out of position or even facing a blind shot – unlike a laser, which needs line-of-sight and cannot see over hills.
“We look forward to building an even more successful relationship with the Legends Tour, and with the brilliant golfers who compete at its events.”
For more information about SkyCaddie, visit www.skygolf.com.
