Mandofred
Well-known member
Yep....you should break the speedometer on your car....dang technology messing up the driving experience.
Laser or GPS?
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timd77
Assistant Pro
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
Assistant Pro
Agree most people are more competent at measuring distance than estimating it.
sunshine
Well-known member
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
Assistant Pro
Trust me no one in the clubhouse thinks I'm cool
sunshine
Well-known member
Maybe stop using a laser and watch your street cred soar.
Sid Rixon IV
Head Pro
Along with your yardages?
TigerBear
Active member
Anyone used the mileseey brand before?
Reading mixed reviews, then again for price range not expecting it to perform like a Bushnell!
rulie
Head Pro
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
Tour Rookie
If it doesn’t perform well I’d steer well clear.
Mandofred
Well-known member
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
Journeyman Pro
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
Well-known member
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
Journeyman Pro
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
Well-known member
Blimey - imagine a sport moving forward and enhancing itself through technology
3 jabber
Well-known member
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
Occasional Tour Caddy
Is the ordering of your list purely coincidental or ...
3 jabber
Well-known member
Pure coincidence................
sjw
Well-known member
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
Well-known member
Do you play golf with hickory clubs and a feathery ball? Maybe use a little pyramid of sand to tee your ball up?
