The day of the paper course planner at £5 a go is nearly over, and the greedy golf pro will have to try harder to take our money.
Lots of golfers are turning up to courses with hand held yardage finders. Fantasticly accurate and super modern, offers distance to the player on courses they have never played or even seen before.
The question being asked is do you use laser systems or GPS. Well both have advantages.
Laser systems like the Bushnell V2 Tour and 1500 Tournament will give you the option of simply looking through the view finder and getting any distance you can see. So you could see how far away the bunker is, or the flag or even that hump or set of trees you are going to carry. Now this works great as long as you can see everything you want to measure. How do you find out how long the green is that you can’t see over the bunker. How far is the bunker around the dogleg that you can’t see around.
This is when GPS really comes into it’s own. The GPS systems work the same way as your car navigation systems, you can’t see where London Bridge is from Devon but the GPS system will still tell you the distance.
Now GPS is no good if the course you are playing is not available to download. GPS is more work and money if you are playing lots of different courses as you will pay for each download. Where laser is one off spend then just fire your laser to find your distance.
So there are pro’s and con’s for both system and the ultimate professional would use both sytems. To make the best choice you need to think about where you will be playing and how many blind shots will you not be able to measure with the laser finder, and how many course are you not going to be able to download with your GPS system.
For GPS and laser range finders from Bushnll and Sky Caddie visit http://www.4golfonline.com UK Golf Shop.
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Really enjoy keeping score on the Garmin Approach G5 GPS also a very intuitive process. Play rounds where someone in group has used a rangefinder and find the Garmin to be just as accurate and much quicker to use – you just look at the screen to see the distance to the flag without having to line it up or press any buttons.The screen is easy to read in sunlight even with polarized sunglasses.