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GPS vs. Laser Rangefinders What Do You Actually Use on the Course?

GPS vs. Laser Rangefinders

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sunshine said:
Wow I've never seen that before. Must be really interesting to see. Did the course guide have both the distance and the slope adjusted distance? What were the courses? I'm guessing tour courses.
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2 that I can recall specifically off the top of my head were Queenwood when I played it and was given a caddies version of the yardage book, that was ridiculously detailed so many numbers due to adjustments and took some getting used to.

Another was RCP when I played there in the Royal Engineers golf champs (2003/4 ish), we had to pay for them but we got tour style yardage books with pin positions, slope adjustments, green slope details etc. it was like a maths lesson using it but once you figured it out was useful. I’ve still got both of those somewhere I’ll have to see if I can dig them out.
 
Lucifer MorningStar said:
2 that I can recall specifically off the top of my head were Queenwood when I played it and was given a caddies version of the yardage book, that was ridiculously detailed so many numbers due to adjustments and took some getting used to.

Another was RCP when I played there in the Royal Engineers golf champs (2003/4 ish), we had to pay for them but we got tour style yardage books with pin positions, slope adjustments, green slope details etc. it was like a maths lesson using it but once you figured it out was useful. I’ve still got both of those somewhere I’ll have to see if I can dig them out.
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That sounds great but we all know the only information you really need is the tip from the pro “Long and Straight is helpful on this hole”.
A must in every good yardage book 😂😂
 
'It is only when we are aware of our ignorance that we can judge how to use knowledge...it is easy to be misled into drawing the wrong conclusion unless we understand the degree of our uncertainty'

From Brian Cox - Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos.

And, as with so much in life, so it is with golf. Managing and understanding uncertainty is core to the game - the swing is not the only thing. Remove too much uncertainty and a core part of our game is diminished.
 
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