Gps

[thecraw]

Today I played my home course and forgot to take my Skycaddie. Anyway to cut a long story boring, I was lost without it. On my home course I was lost, that's worrying how much you start to rely on gadgets!

Found myself guessing and questioning myself once over the ball. Anyone else experience similar?

 

[chris661]

I found the opposite when I left mine at home last week. Knew the rough club to use so just hit it and it was nearly right (playing into a three club wind never helped much mind).

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Im with thecraw on this. I need the comfort blanket that is my SC5 and always feel lost without it especially on a new course.

 

[chris661]

Im with thecraw on this. I need the comfort blanket that is my SC5 and always feel lost without it especially on a new course.

Do you still feel as comfortable when you knob it twenty yards? I am beginning to think it is a bit of a waste of time on my home course but when playing at somewhere new it is handy.

 

[stevek1969]

Lucky my club has distances on the sprinkler heads so no roughly how far i need to duff it.There good for other playing other tracks.

As the guy at Castlerock tells us every year before we play ,you can use GPS if you wish but you wont bloody need it as this is a links course and its blowing a gale.

 

[brendy]

On your home course craw? man up!

 

[G1BB0]

I get on just aswell with or without! Either way I am ***!!!!!

 

[jammag]

For someone who doesnt use one I have a question in how you use them as such. Do you digest the info you get regularly by knowing that the tree to the left is so many yards and will roughly know the distance or do you generally forget the info as soon as you have played the shot and just check it again and not know the distance if you had to repeat the shot.

This question springs to mind as there was a thread not long ago about how someone forgot the gps and had a quality round and then this one stating that you felt lost without it. Obviously 2 different approaches and I am interested in how people use them or how they see best to use them? Those that regularly use a gps how would you feel if they were banned, would you feel your handicap would go up or would you struggle to learn distances and maybe take the wrong club.

 

[thecraw]

As Homer says, it becomes a "comfort blanket" where you confirm with yourself that its 155, that's a good 7 iron, a wee bit of wind off the right shoulder, I can force an 8. Now without that confirmation, I will still be thinking 7 iron but there is always that little bit of self doubt, will I need to flush it, is it an easy 7, etc, etc.

This is in my mind 100% due to owning the Skycaddie and having that "personal" caddie to confirm a yardage with. Knowing the numbers a huge advantage in your own head. Take that away and you start to realise how reliant you become on that "quick glance" at your GPS. For me, home and away the GPS is a must.

 

[Smiffy]

I played last Sunday at Lindfield GC. Thought I had charged my S1 up the night before but obviously didn't have the connections lined up correctly. Stood on the 1st tee, fired it up and got the "low battery" symbol. Not enough charge to tell the time, let alone GPS me! Switched if off, and scored 38 points.....

 

[bobmac]

I played 27 holes last Sunday at Lindfield GC. Thought I had charged my S1 up the night before but obviously didn't have the connections lined up correctly. Stood on the 1st tee, fired it up and got the "low battery" symbol. Not enough charge to tell the time, let alone GPS me! Switched if off, and scored 38 points.....

Fixed

 

[Smiffy]

Fixed

You are a fecking stalker

 

[bobmac]

You are a fecking stalker

 

[Imurg]

As the guy at Castlerock tells us every year before we play ,you can use GPS if you wish but you wont bloody need it as this is a links course and its blowing a gale.

Surely you still need to now how far you have to go..?
Even if you're hitting 9 irons 200 yards with the wind and drivers 120 against.....

 

[granters]

I don't own a GPS but am quickly coming round to the idea of getting one. I play at a links course, where there's pretty much always a 2 or 3 club wind on some holes. In some cases a GPS isn't much use as it's all about the way you want to play the shot. BUT i totally agree about the comfort blanket sentiments.

Yesterday i played Dundonald for the first time. With all the undulations etc in the fairway it's hard to gauge distance. On the second i nailed a drive down the centre and had what i thought was about 120 into the green, so a nice 8 iron (i use very old blades!). When my bro gave me the gps reading it was actually 160, i couldn't believe it! Sure enough, i battered a 5 iron pin high.

The same happened at the 3rd, where i hit a 3 wood into the green, after initially thinking it was about a 4 iron.

The main advantage i find is actually knowing how far it is to hazards etc, particularly on par 5's. I wouldn't say i was ever lost without GPS, but if i had the choice i'd have one. Maybe santa will read this

 

[jammag]

I have to admit I am coming round to the idea of having one at the course I am going to next year based on they have big greens and knowing the front or back distance could well be handy. I still think it takes something out of thegame as such but if its a big advantage then maybe I should be using one if it will help me.

When you walk up to your ball do you already think of a shot or do you not bother til you have the reading on the screen? At the moment part of the thing I love about golf is approaching the ball and starting to see so many different shots.

 

[RGDave]

Found myself guessing and questioning myself once over the ball. Anyone else experience similar?

Not really, unless I'm somewhere off-piste!

I much prefer having it to hand, but if it's not there I can usually get some sort of distance reading.

Looking back over my last few rounds, it IS noticeable in my scores that I play better with one. Little things can make a big difference. I was playing an unknown course the other day and hit a few irons where I changed from my initial choice by reading fronts and backs. 3 birdies that otherwise would not have been the right club. Got to be happy with that!

 

[full_throttle]

Today I played my home course and forgot to take my Skycaddie. Anyway to cut a long story boring, I was lost without it. On my home course I was lost, that's worrying how much you start to rely on gadgets!

Found myself guessing and questioning myself once over the ball. Anyone else experience similar?

I agree it's like a safety blanket, the numbers on screen just confirm your playing the right club at the right time.

 

[palindromicbob]

I am beginning to rely on my laser range finder. I could be sitting on a course yardage marker but still don't trust it!

 

[evahakool]

On the second i nailed a drive down the centre and had what i thought was about 120 into the green, so a nice 8 iron (i use very old blades!). When my bro gave me the gps reading it was actually 160,

This is what I find hard to understand with people saying using a gps are so usefull,if you hit a drive down the middle of a fairway and you were told its 160 to the green, surely there are 150 markers just 10 yards in front of you so why would you need a gps for this information?