whats better ?

[golfdub]

Gps or sight scope ?
Looking to buy one

 

[RGDave]

I spent ages trying to decide. In the end I went for GPS. Mostly it doesn't leave the clip....I just glance at it. The other seems too fussy to me, and I'm not good enough anyway; I just want to know the yardage quick and easy.

 

[Imurg]

If you can always see the pin and any/every hazard then the laser rangefinder is the one. But if, like on most courses I play, you can't see all bunkers, ditches, pins etc etc then the GPS has to be the obvious choice.

 

[Spinn77]

Out of interest, i've a question about the GPS, its giving yardages 'as the crow flies', right?


Im thinking, over doglegs etc, not measuring the yards to the corner then to the green.

 

[CliveW]

SkyCaddy SG5 gives distances to end of fairway, corner of dogleg etc.

 

[Spinn77]

was asking more about over doglegs. for example i often play a par 5 which doglegs left at about 320 yards, leaves another 150. those are the distances if you walk the middle of the fairway.

But, i can sometimes drive it the 260 which leaves a shot through the tall trees inside the corner of the dogleg to the green in two. WOULD the sky caddie give me yardages 'through' the corner, rather than around it?

 

[Kellfire]

Some GPSs have an option to touch on the screen and it'll give you the yardage to that point, so you can figure out your doglegs that way.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

GPS for me. Rangefinders can't see through forests, over banks and in ditches! At least my trust GPS could tell me how far I could hack the next shot yesterday from wherever