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Lyle,
Let us know how it works!!
Let us know how it works!!
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If you have a palm, another viable option would be intelligolf and buying a GPS for the palm. It allows front~back~center of green as well as three other points you can define on the course, with text, and upload and download. It was likely my second choice next to the iGolf. As I already own the software, a palm and it also tracks your statistics like the Sureshot. Basically it would work like the sureshot, but you also have to consider the downside of not only having the palm but the external Bluetooth GPS.
definatly go with the range finder, there are courses that are not downloadable for the gps. you can use a range finder anywhere.
I disagree entirely.
I had a range finder and after a few rounds pretty much stopped using it because it was useless. You can see around corners with it, its nearly impossible to use for objects on the ground like creeks and water hazards, its hard to lock onto on object and you will sure as shit have a headache if you use it on every hole.
I tried my skycaddy out this weekend and was giddy it was so cool. The course is under a foot of snow and this thing still worked like a charm. I can have the exact distance to the front edge of a water hazard, and the back edge of the hazard. Cutting a corner you can have the distance to carry the trouble and to the far end of the fairway so you dont over do it. Get the distance to the front edge and back of the green from anywhere. You can also use to see how far you hit each club. This thing is so far superior to a range finder it isnt even funny.
As for courses, the list is growing daily. Almost every course I have ever played is already on there, including the 8 in my far northern Ontario city with a pop of 113,000.
I highly recommend everyone get one of these.
Rangefinder. You can get a distance to anything from anywhere and it is more accurate that a GPS. Bushnell has the Medalist coming out in March with Pinseeker technology that was only found in the high end models until now with a retail expected to be $299. It works on any course in the world, does not require any down loads, and there is never any additional expense except maybe a battery which I have yet to wear out in my current model in almost 3 years of use. If I did not already have a rangefinder, this puppy would be heading towards Orlando as soon as I could order it.
A note on Pinseeker Technology. On the older Bushnell models without Pinseeker, it could be very hard to pick up the pin/flag combination when there was no wind due a more reflective object reflecting more of the beam back to the unit giving you a wrong distance. Pinseeker takes all of the various distance readings from different objects and provides only the distance to the closest object which is the pin/flag. Pretty simple and elegent technology that vastly improves a range finder's performance.