Anyone Still Use A Course Planner?

[Steve King]

With all the modern tech available, GPS & iPhone Apps, does anyone still use a score planner?

I make iPhone Apps and I still use an 'old fashioned' course planner or stroke saver.

I have all my notes written on the pages about where to favour on each hole and it is a trigger I use to start my pre-shot routine - as soon as it goes back into my back pocket, I switch on to the shot.

Also I have a box full of them from all the different courses I have played and I've even been sad enough to organise them into UK & International Courses

Anyone else still use them?

 

[GB72]

Certainly not on my home course, I know that well enough that the GPS does not always come out.

I have bought them for away courses but mainly as a little souvenier. If I do not think I am heading back to to the course soon I see little point in keeping notes etc.

 

[MikeH]

Also I have a box full of them from all the different courses I have played and I've even been sad enough to organise them into UK & International Courses

Only organsied into Uk and International? Sloppy work Steve. Mine are arranged A to Z. Love nothing more than getting a random one out playing my way round the course in my head

 

[Swinger]

Only organsied into Uk and International? Sloppy work Steve. Mine are arranged A to Z. Love nothing more than getting a random one out playing my way round the course in my head

Do you manage to get round in under 5 hours?

I might have to look into this.

 

[fundy]

Prefer to use a GPS but I do have some of courses I play semi-occasionally with notes on them which I either refer to before going or take with me and use on each tee. Notes usually consist of ideal club/length off tee, if missing fairway or green whether to miss left/right long/short etc and anything that may be hidden (ie a 2nd bunker tucked behind the one you can see etc)

 

[AmandaJR]

Being fairly new to golf I started with the GPS technology. I have used a course planner a couple of times but to be honest find the whole thing totally confusing

 

[MadAdey]

I always buy a stroke saver when I play a new course just as a souvenir. But my phone app is used for distances rather than the stroke saver. It is far more accurate than trying to take a yardage from a tree then walk it out to your ball.

 

[bladeplayer]

Only use them on strange courses mate , havent gone over to gps yet , still love the challange of working it out , i can see the advantags of GPS tho

 

[ADB]

I used to always buy a strokesaver, but compared to the immediacy of GPS there is no comparison in accuracy. The strokesaver also tended to slow me up a little doing the yardage calculations, but maybe that is a bad reflection of my mental arithmetic.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Always get them where available. Adds a good visual guide to a hole as well as my sky caddy yardages and useful for pointing out hidden obstacles. Don't tend to use it for distances. make a good souvenir too

 

[timchump]

yes only because i have to wait 3 more days for a sky caddie.

courser planners are interesting reading though

 

[Steve King]

Only organsied into Uk and International? Sloppy work Steve. Mine are arranged A to Z. Love nothing more than getting a random one out playing my way round the course in my head

Hi Mike
I like replaying rounds in my head too...don't you find it's easier to shoot par that way

 

[StrangelyBrown]

I use a strokesaver at my home course when i'm at a part of the course I shouldn't be, but I mostly know what club to use if I'm on the right bit of grass.

 

[patricks148]

If its a course i have not played before i buy one and use it. i play the same 10 or so courses reg thoughout the year and did take a stroke saver with me each time, but i purchased a range finder in Oct so prob won't use except for the first time i play a new course.

 

[pbrown7582]

I always buy a planner and use it along side my sky caddie then keep it as a souvenir afterwards along with a ball marker. I have tried to get some in advance but found them quite hard to locate.