Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
They should.
A Caddy has all the info in their books but still takes days to work it out.
Give 'em a GPS....
Do you use a range finder/DMD?
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They should.
A Caddy has all the info in their books but still takes days to work it out.
Give 'em a GPS....
One Planer
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Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
And it still takes too long because they have to decipher all the data.......
ger147
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The 3rd time a caddy throws some grass in the air during a round and it lands on his head, the pro he is caddying for should be DQ'd
mab
Challenge Tour Pro
The 3rd time a caddy throws some grass in the air during a round and it lands on his head, the pro he is caddying for should be DQ'd
One Planer
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They have accurate yardages. Know exactly how far they hit each club.
What's the hold up?
mab
Challenge Tour Pro
I've always wondered that too.
I have assumed that, whilst they do have accurate distances, they only have accurate distances from certain points. It, therefore, takes a little time to 'triangulate' the distance from the exact point at which they are standing.
I could be completely wrong on this though...
I have a range finder.
We even have distance markers to front and Middle on every sprinkler head from 250 yards out.
My eye sight is not great and with out large greens you can sometimes be 20-30 yards out.
Its great from under 150 as i can fire straight at the flag.
We even have distance markers to front and Middle on every sprinkler head from 250 yards out.
My eye sight is not great and with out large greens you can sometimes be 20-30 yards out.
Its great from under 150 as i can fire straight at the flag.
Laka
Head Pro
I have a simple rangefinder with lensfocus and two other functions which one is a scanfunction. It works fine for my level of playing, we also has markers on fairway. 200 m, 150 meters, 100 m and 50 m and some sprinkler has distance measures to green.
jimbob.someroo
Journeyman Pro
I have a garmin watch which I find useful, particularly on courses which I've never played before - which was most of the ones in my league this year.
The majority of these courses did not have sprinkler yardages and so there was just the 3 (or in some cases 2) posts. Not that easy to judge from the adjacent fairway ...
I use mine as well on my home course as I feel it give me a bit more commitment to hit the shot. Don't think I'd have a laser though, a lot of faffing around and far too pricey.
The watch lets me know to the nearest couple of yards how far to the middle of the green which 99% of the time is all I need. I can get this info as I arrive at the ball so that I don't have to pace out yardages etc and has definitely sped up my decision making.
The majority of these courses did not have sprinkler yardages and so there was just the 3 (or in some cases 2) posts. Not that easy to judge from the adjacent fairway ...
I use mine as well on my home course as I feel it give me a bit more commitment to hit the shot. Don't think I'd have a laser though, a lot of faffing around and far too pricey.
The watch lets me know to the nearest couple of yards how far to the middle of the green which 99% of the time is all I need. I can get this info as I arrive at the ball so that I don't have to pace out yardages etc and has definitely sped up my decision making.
the smiling assassin
Challenge Tour Pro
i use laser and gps and i enjoy my golf all the more for the certainty they provide and the fact i know i have to hit a good shot to get a good result and not just fluke a bad or good one close occasionally.
regarding uncertainty on the golf course. do those who feel dmd's take away an element of uncertainty also refrain from:
-teeing their ball,
-using a glove,
-lining their ball up on the green with the 'cheater-line'
-wearing glasses/sun glasses
-throwing clumps of grass in the air to assess wind direction
-referring to yardage markers of any sort
?
practicing all of the above removes an element of uncertainty from the shot. it does not remove the skill in executing the shot successfully. there are no excuses with a dmd - perhaps this uncertainty stuff is more about having something else other than yourself to blame when you hit a crap shot.
regarding uncertainty on the golf course. do those who feel dmd's take away an element of uncertainty also refrain from:
-teeing their ball,
-using a glove,
-lining their ball up on the green with the 'cheater-line'
-wearing glasses/sun glasses
-throwing clumps of grass in the air to assess wind direction
-referring to yardage markers of any sort
?
practicing all of the above removes an element of uncertainty from the shot. it does not remove the skill in executing the shot successfully. there are no excuses with a dmd - perhaps this uncertainty stuff is more about having something else other than yourself to blame when you hit a crap shot.
LIG
Q-School Graduate
I'm definitely NOT good enough to use a laser according to some but to them I say.... "stuff U! I'm a gadget man!" :ears:
upsidedown
Tour Winner
The GPS today in its first outing was very good, yardages to FMB and if you tap anywhere on the screen on the hole you're playing tells you how far it is to it.
The one thing it hasn't done which its supposed to, is not record club distances but that be down to user error. Do know I had drives between 225 and 248 yards
The one thing it hasn't done which its supposed to, is not record club distances but that be down to user error. Do know I had drives between 225 and 248 yards
A lot of good architects use false fronts, changes in elevation etc to elongate or foreshorten a hole and fool the golfer that way. A DMD gives you accurate data usually front middle and back that can nullify these architectural challenges and takes an uncertainty out of the equation
Davey247
Assistant Pro
I have a phone app for if I'm playing new courses with mates, but not really properly shopped about for a 'proper' device. Though if I did I'd probably look at getting a Garmin watch. Look like a decent bit of kit.
NWJocko
Tour Winner
Doesn't a 150 yard post do the same job of removing uncertainty?
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Course planners do that also
Not when the DMD has is at 164 yards (Tylney Park) or 139 (Royal Ascot) or 155 (Caversham Heath). Bottom line is they aren't accurate and if you add in the fact that some measure to the front and some to the middle so no consistency
NWJocko
Tour Winner
Have you not mentioned to your own place their markers are inaccurate?
The point I was making was that, if the architects intentions of fooling the golfer were to have any integrity then there would be no means of measuring distances, therefore it seems an odd argument against dmds......
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