What in your opinion is the most useless piece of golf equipment ?

[Val]

Precisely, Rangefinders are totally irrelevant.

Knowing the distance to an objective is totally useless if you don't know which club you need to achieve that and as for those players who faff around with their GPS/Rangefinder when they are less than 100 yards from the target!!!.

Rubbish, my sand wedge is a 90 yard club, if i know for certain its 85 to the front I know generally a full sand wedge will get me on the centre of the green. Even off 15 I'm confident I can pull 90 yards of consistently.

The only way I'll know for sure its 85 to the front is GPS.

Should add, my faffing around takes less time than it does to take the club from my bag.

 

[markgs]

The putter never really mastered using one

 

[Swinger]

You're only having a downer on rangefinders because the don't suit your needs and measure in miles! :smirk:

I wish that was the problem I was having!!


I was just trying to take the heat off Iron covers!! Not sure what everyone has against them.
They are smart, tidy, stylish and practical.
They help keep your clubs clean and dry.
But most of all they stop the irons knocking together which makes a lot of unwanted noise and can ruin the look of the clubs not to mention the swing weights!!

 

[haplesshacker]

Most useless bit of golf equipment.

Scorecards that have a map of the course on the back of them that bear no resemblance to the actual course. Couldn't find several tees one very quiet afternoon recently.

Course marshalls.

Non waterproof waterproofs.

 

[richart]

Got to stick up for iron headcovers here. Big fan!!
But I guess all those people that are anti them are the same people who don't cover their car windscreens over when it's going to be frosty and I just don't like frosty irons.

Can't stand iron headcovers. You get stone marks on your irons from taking divots, but you don't want the clubs to knock together.

I put my car in the garage to avoid a frosty windscreen.:ears:

 

[Fader]

Thanks for pointing out ref Tour rules

They still seem pointless to me, especially to an amatuer with decent vision.

Any experiences of Ball Finding Sunglasses appreciated too...

So distance measuringyour ok with as you have decent vision, but vision isn't good enough to find a ball you'd consider ball finding sunglasses.!

You know when your looking for that ball and you can't see a thing thats because your looking at the inside of your eyelids! Open those and you'll be fine :thup: Or if you really want some ball finding glasses by some normal sunglasses, put them on and look for your ball as normal when you find said ball you can say check me out finding my ball in my suglasses!

 

[scratch]

To all those people slagging off rangefinders.......

hit the practice ground, find out how far you hit each club and once you've done that, get a rangefinder and watch your scores come down :thup:

Oh...and taking fewer shots speeds up play

 

[TheClaw]

Thanks for pointing out ref Tour rules

They still seem pointless to me, especially to an amatuer with decent vision.

Any experiences of Ball Finding Sunglasses appreciated too...

It's pointless knowing how far away the target is? So, with decent vision anybody can distinguish between, say, a 150 and 160 yard shot?

 

[Fish]

You don't need ball finding glasses, you need to be honest with yourself and look 40 yards shorter than where you think it is

Umbrella holders, mine just constantly slides, never stays upright, I have to abandon using my brolly at times as I'm faffing around with it too much.

 

[Slab]

gap wedge is my most used wedge of all dissagree

That loft may very well be your most used club (making it even stranger that so many manufactures choose not to include it when they sell you a 'set' of irons) but the only use for a club called a gap wedge is if you bought clubs with a gap in the first place

 

[HawkeyeMS]

hitting most greens has nothing to do with your range finder surly,it must be down to knowing how far you hit each club and what did you do before we had measuring devices,i once played in a corporate comp and was stuck with a guy who had been playing golf for 6 months,he had all the latest gear all custom fitted and insisted on using his range finder on every shot,even after the 20 yd top of the first tee.

I am hitting more greens since I switched from laser to GPS. I just get the yardage to the front of the green and make sure I take more club than I need to hit that yardage, thus making sure I'm not short, which used to be quite often.

You might not like range finders, but that doesn't make them useless

 

[Fish]

I am hitting more greens since I switched from laser to GPS. I just get the yardage to the front of the green and make sure I take more club than I need to hit that yardage, thus making sure I'm not short, which used to be quite often.

You might not like range finders, but that doesn't make them useless

I do the reverse.

I look for the yardage to the back of the green and take what I know will be a full shot which in truth is possibly made 3 times out of 10 so if I hit it flush, I'm at the back of the green, if I hit it short, I'm in the middle or slightly front of the green, the nett result is, I'm on the green more. I prefer this to taking flag yardages, being short and coming out of bunkers which is why I changed from a range finder to a GPS.

I also think the GPS is quicker as I am glancing at it as I am walking to my ball, not stopping and getting the range finder out.

Anyway, it works for me

 

[North Mimms]

A round playing with Mr Clank clank clanking clank Mimms and you would change your mind about iron covers

 

[louise_a]

I have some ball finding sunglasses . Got for Christmas

Me too, they are great for finding bird poo!

 

[USER1999]

Me too, they are great for finding bird poo!

I use shoes for that.

 

[Chris1986]

Dark green tees from harrods 6 tee shots lost all 6. Good prezzie off the mrs

 

[bladeplayer]

Amen. I've got eyes an yardage markers, that'll do.

I was this soldier , even on record in the magazine a couple of year back in the old v new debate , think I said "15 yards behind the 150 marker is 165 & as long as I can still add up il be fine " Then I tried a mates GPS , savage job .. bought a G5 & dropped 2 shots .. was the GPS the cause of this ? I don't know but it helped .. try one a couple of times & see

 

[G1BB0]

a launch monitor in the wrong hands!!!!!!!

 

[North Mimms]

Any golf themed gift in the Father's Day section of Marks and Spencer

 

[Snelly]

Iron covers. Just wrong.