Sorry to raise this again...

[Canfordhacker]

GPS.

Friend's wife looking to buy him one. I know the merits, just wondering about the costs are for the popular models.

Anyone got a quick ballpark for the popular ones?

Cheers

 

[colint]

I got a sonocaddie off Amazon for £251, which seemed like a good price. No extra costs as you can download approx 10 courses with no extra charges

 

[KeefG]

See my review here on the GolfBuddy Tour, think these retail around the £230 mark and are fantastic!

 

[thecraw]

I just bought the basic Skycaddie 2.5 off of my professioanl for £165.

It does what it says on the tin and I'm delighted although I think its broken as it tells me that I dont carry the ball 260 off the tee!!!!!!

 

[johng]

CaddyLite for £99.

well worth it, basic in some ways but tells you what you need.

http://www.golf-plus.co.uk/

 

[Ronnoc1980]

Not a lot in the way of help here as I dont yet have one!

However in my last position it was my responsibility to source and buy sat-nav for the RAC under a brand licence. What I would say in the 2yrs I had this position the price of technology from China drops faster than a stone .

At the time on many buying trips I was offered golf gps units when they first started to hit the market at very high costs on my last trip in sept last yrs they had dropped by around 35%. My point been that as with sat-nav if you can hold on say another 6-12 months the price will drop more and more.

PDA style sat nav in 2005 £400+(very basic)
Tom-Tom all singing and dancing, Bluetooth Euro map’s 2009 £109!!! (and falling)

 

[USER1999]

Played with a guy recently using caddyaid on his mobile. It was junk. Now where near accurate compared to two of us using skycaddie. Out by anything up to 15 yards.

 

[Jigger]

Played with a guy recently using caddyaid on his mobile. It was junk. Now where near accurate compared to two of us using skycaddie. Out by anything up to 15 yards.

I have teetogreen on my iphone for £9. It's as accurate as my mate's gps.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I've had the SC5 for nearly two years now and its really helped my game. I think if I was in the market again I'd go for the cheaper 2.5 model and would consider the sonocaddie for the extra features.

 

[Twire]

Played with a guy recently using caddyaid on his mobile. It was junk. Now where near accurate compared to two of us using skycaddie. Out by anything up to 15 yards.

The trouble with using GPS software on mobile phones, is that it maybe not always be the software that's at fault (although I do agree that CaddyAid is complete trash). A lot can depend on the built in GPS receiver. To buy a good quality stand alone receiver that locks onto enough satellites to give good accurate positioning, you will be looking at around £40...now there's not many mobile phones with 40 quids worth of receiver in them. This is why a dedicated unit will always win in the accuracy stakes.