Hi Gramps,
Consider a hand held GPS (www.skygolf.com). They're a touch pricey but
work great. They have a huge number of courses already surveyed that you
can download and if your favorite course isn't in there it is easy to do
the survey yourself and add it to your 'folder'. By surveyed I mean that
they have determined latitude and longitude of the front, back, and center
of the greens (as well as some hazards on some courses) so that the hand
held unit can calculate distances. They control use of their database by
only allowing you to store courses on the GPS unit and your 'folder' on
their website. There is a charge for the course surveys but it's
reasonable. We have cart mounted GPS at one of the local courses as well
as Kirby markers on the course (yardage markers to the center of the green
every 25-yards on both sides of the fairway) and I rarely see disagreement
greater than a few yards.
Good luck,
Alan Brooks
Oh, yeah, I've been told that the USGA is on the verge of approving them
for tournament use.
At 04:02 PM 10/8/2005 -0400, you wrote:
Hi all...
I'm thinking of getting one of those Bushnell type laser rangefinders but
wanted to find out how easy they are to use.
I assume that they must have some kind of object to reflect off (meaning
that you couldn't measure distance to the edge of water without locating a
tree or something nearby). Am I correct?
How steady do you have to be to use it. I currently have a high quality
optical scope (the type you aim at the bottom of a flag) but holding it
steady enough to get a reading is difficult for me.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Thanks
Grampa
