junior lefty
High School Golfer
Oh, now I see. I don't think the cartpath is very soft if you know what I mean...
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I was thinking of a rangefinder, but I don't think I an keep my hands steady enough.I use a GolfLogix-8. I have had it for over two years now and have yet to renew my subscription. Still works, I can download courses and install them and they function. I got it cheap on ebay and it included the first year subscription for free. I saved about 60 bucks on the unit plus 40 bucks on the subscription.
It's no-frills though, and if you are looking for something pretty with bells and whistles, this isn't for you. What this thing does/is that others are not, is it's waterproof and uses regular batteries. It's also pretty shockproof so you can toss it to your buddy so he can get his/her distance too.
I also use my old Bushnell Yardage Pro rangefinder. Sucker just won't die and is only on its third battery in ten years.
I'm very interested in the layup and hazard carry features, etc., of these gizmos Ary. I was at Joe and Leigh's yesterday and the gent there told my that a new uPro was coming out in February that would have a touch screen feature and all the other bells and whistles for $199 plus a lot of courses pre-loaded. Now I'm not sure what to do!Sean,
I've got the Callaway Upro and had no problems with it, I can get 36 holes out of it before it needs to get charged again. Also, I know you live in the Boston area like I do, I haven't had a problem with finding courses in this area, which can be the issue with other units. I don't really use the hole flyovers all that much, but I do like using the maps to figure out layup distances or other things like carries over hazards on different lines or how far away the end of a fairway is on a big dogleg hole.
40,000! I didn't know there were that many KB. Are you and Gray going to play them all? No fee? I like that.We bought the Golf Buddy World Platinum that is preloaded with 40,000 courses. We just turn it on when we get to a course and it loads up. Our course wasn't available on many of the ones we looked at but this one had it. No fees whatsoever. It's worked everywhere we've been so far.
That's a major consideration Jnug. I won't get a unit if the courses I play aren't mapped.I have both a uPro and an OnPar. Now that the bugs appear to have been cleaned up the onPar is much preferred at least in my case. Never thought I would like a touchscreen golf gps but the touchscreen has not been a problem and the feature set is really something.
You do want to check course availability on whatever unit you end up being interested in buying. If the course or courses you want are not already mapped, you could have a long wait.
I have a uPro. One of my golfing buddies has the SkyCaddie 2 which works good also. Both are fine for what I want/need.
My personal preference is a GPS device. I am not a fan of rangefinders because I don't want to take the time do the point & click stuff to get the distance. I want the technology to do the yardage calculations without me having to do any extra work.
With the uPro, there are no courses added. You have to go the website and select the courses you want to be on the device. Most courses have a BASIS option for FREE, which give you yardage to Fr/Mid/Bac, but no yardage to bunkers or water, etc. The PRO option costs a couple bucks a course, which gives you all the extra yardages, and the flyovers.
My golfing buddy is a big fan of the skycaddie because they supposedly send someone out to walk every course so maybe they have to most accurate yardages.
Even if the above is true, they probably sell there data to all of the other companies, anyway. So, who cares about what company gets the information.
In all honesty, I really only need the device if I'm in another fairway or I'm looking to layup to a good distance, or avoid trouble. As far as yardages to the green, I've found that 99% of all 100/150/200 yard markers are within 1-2 yards accuracy. And nobody's game, that's not a tour pro, is that dialed in to worry about 1-2 yards, heck even 5-10 yards for that matter. Golfers that are in the fairway, or just barely in the rough, and spend time looking at the gps devise need to get their head examined. The shot dispersion from their irons doesn't justify that time/cost of gps usage.
I dont use one right now but I am wanting a UPRO very badly, I missed winning one by one click at the outting. UGH!
But... you got the divot mat! What is there to be disappoint about?
so, you wanna hook a brotha up with the Upro of yours? you obviously have no need for it! hehe
My driver ain't the most accurate club in my bag. I tend to get a little too familiar with other fairways. LOL!
I've taken the plunge on a Garmin G5 (or rather that's my wife's Xmas present this year to me) after playing around with my buddies G3 for the past couple of months.
Reasons
A: It's $200 off at Golfsmith right now
B: All the courses I want/need are preloaded and updated fairly regularly
C: It's Garmin. The GPS is spot on and we've never had a problem with finding satellite's
D: The touch screen is durable as is the rest of the unit. We've used the thing in the snow, rain and baking heat and it's taken it all. He's even run the thing over with a golf cart and it's still ticking (I wouldn't recommend this however heh).
E: Aside from knowing layup points and the like, I really wanted the stats tracking feature and they're really quite good on this unit. Not as expansive as the OnPar unit but still pretty sweet.