Laser or GPS?

[Mandofred]

Sounds like several are slaves to technology and can’t play without it? Sad state!

Yep....you should break the speedometer on your car....dang technology messing up the driving experience.

 

[timd77]

Sounds like several are slaves to technology and can’t play without it? Sad state!

Just how I’ve learned to play proper golf. To be fair, even the best players on the planet can’t hit a shot without knowing the exact yardage, they just don’t use the tech (in the main).

 

[Backache]

Just how I’ve learned to play proper golf. To be fair, even the best players on the planet can’t hit a shot without knowing the exact yardage, they just don’t use the tech (in the main).

Agree most people are more competent at measuring distance than estimating it.

 

[sunshine]

Agree most people are more competent at measuring distance than estimating it.

Yeah but everyone in the clubhouse will think you’re really cool when you tell them about the time you correctly guessed the yardage when your playing partner measured it with a laser.

 

[Backache]

Yeah but everyone in the clubhouse will think you’re really cool when you tell them about the time you correctly guessed the yardage when your playing partner measured it with a laser.

Trust me no one in the clubhouse thinks I'm cool

 

[sunshine]

Trust me no one in the clubhouse thinks I'm cool

Maybe stop using a laser and watch your street cred soar.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Maybe stop using a laser and watch your street cred soar.

Along with your yardages?

 

[TigerBear]

https://amzn.eu/d/gP3Ygbj

Anyone used the mileseey brand before?

Reading mixed reviews, then again for price range not expecting it to perform like a Bushnell!

 

[rulie]

Yep....you should break the speedometer on your car....dang technology messing up the driving experience.

Speedometers have been around much longer than gps or lasers for golf. How on earth did players manage before 1990 (or whatever date those devices came into golf)? Seems that golf was played a few centuries before that!

 

[KenL]

Anyone used the mileseey brand before?

Reading mixed reviews, then again for price range not expecting it to perform like a Bushnell!

If it doesn’t perform well I’d steer well clear.

 

[Mandofred]

Speedometers have been around much longer than gps or lasers for golf. How on earth did players manage before 1990 (or whatever date those devices came into golf)? Seems that golf was played a few centuries before that!

Things change.....people then start using the "better" stuff....always been like that. Central heating I consider a pretty nice thing.....better than sitting around a campfire, although I do like a good campfire. Before gps/laser there were more markers on most golf courses and you just made your best guess at the distance. Back in the US....and on drier courses all the sprinkler heads had yardage on them so you could make a better guess. Can't stop the tech!

 

[PJ87]

Anyone used the mileseey brand before?

Reading mixed reviews, then again for price range not expecting it to perform like a Bushnell!

Anyone used the mileseey brand before?

Reading mixed reviews, then again for price range not expecting it to perform like a Bushnell!

Tbh I think it'd brilliant, my mate has a Bushnell and the yardage reading is the same from it

Bushnell is a fraction of a second quicker picking up the flag but for £300 more? No thanks

 

[Mandofred]

Tbh I think it'd brilliant, my mate has a Bushnell and the yardage reading is the same from it

Bushnell is a fraction of a second quicker picking up the flag but for £300 more? No thanks

I've got a Bushnell....but if mine were to break I'd likely try a cheaper model. As usual, the tech trickles down to cheaper models and more and more other models have come on the market as the years go by. Like I do with golf balls, I wouldn't buy the cheapest laser, but something in the middle.

 

[PJ87]

I've got a Bushnell....but if mine were to break I'd likely try a cheaper model. As usual, the tech trickles down to cheaper models and more and more other models have come on the market as the years go by. Like I do with golf balls, I wouldn't buy the cheapest laser, but something in the middle.

I read one of the reviews

it's just not that accurate, and easily misses the pin even in "pin-seeking" mode. You can take repeated readings following the procedure laid down in the manual, and it can vary by tens or even hundreds of yards.

So basically the guy keeps lasering behind the flag lol

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Speedometers have been around much longer than gps or lasers for golf. How on earth did players manage before 1990 (or whatever date those devices came into golf)? Seems that golf was played a few centuries before that!

Blimey - imagine a sport moving forward and enhancing itself through technology

 

[3 jabber]

Blimey - imagine a sport moving forward and enhancing itself through technology

Golf is a constantly changing sport mostly for the better (titanium, urethane balls, measuring technology, Paige Spiranac, moisture wicking clothing, electric trollies etc) and sometimes for worse (LIV, breakaway tours, PIF, joggers, Albon clothing, slow play etc)

 

[Slab]

Golf is a constantly changing sport mostly for the better (titanium, urethane balls, measuring technology, Paige Spiranac, moisture wicking clothing, electric trollies etc) and sometimes for worse (LIV, breakaway tours, PIF, joggers, Albon clothing, slow play etc)

Is the ordering of your list purely coincidental or ...

 

[3 jabber]

Is the ordering of your list purely coincidental or ...

Pure coincidence................

 

[sjw]

To be fair, one of my mates is very very good at estimating yardage (at our home course). Not that it matters, because anywhere within 100 yards he just stabs a chipper at it

 

[sunshine]

Speedometers have been around much longer than gps or lasers for golf. How on earth did players manage before 1990 (or whatever date those devices came into golf)? Seems that golf was played a few centuries before that!

Do you play golf with hickory clubs and a feathery ball? Maybe use a little pyramid of sand to tee your ball up?