Measuring Devices

[JerseyGolfer]

How many of you use them?

I started using a Bushnell 1500 last spring and now it seems I can't paly w/o pulling it out on every shot. It doesn't slow me down but I find myself using it all the time even on shots inside 100 yds. Anyone else do this and is it good or bad?

[glc3344]

I have one also and i too pull it ot on everyshot from 90 yards and over. Best item i have ever purchased. No more being indecisive standing over a shot. I make alot more birdies now. The pros have exact yardages to the pin...why shouldnt we!

[krustyburger]

I started using a Bushnell 1500 last spring and now it seems I can't paly w/o pulling it out on every shot. It doesn't slow me down but I find myself using it all the time even on shots inside 100 yds. Anyone else do this and is it good or bad?

 

If it isn't slowing you down, then how could getting an exact yardage possibly be a bad thing?

[Smooth spin scott]

Same here Bushnell 1500 ALL the time.... I even use under 90yards, depending on the hole... helps me decide wether I use 3/4 sand, full lob wedge etc. I forgot it in my car one day, the first 9 holes I was lost! HAHA, I can't play without it now

[Golfchicago]

I use the golf versin of the laser link. The "nfe" not for everyone version. It is great I don't have steady hands and this works best for that problem. Also I love how quick you get the results. It is point, shoot and read.

[larrybud]

I started using a Bushnell 1500 last spring and now it seems I can't paly w/o pulling it out on every shot. It doesn't slow me down but I find myself using it all the time even on shots inside 100 yds. Anyone else do this and is it good or bad?

 

Inside 100 is where you need it most! I use it every shot. I pull it out of the case when I'm walking up to the ball so I'm ready to shoot the yardage. If I'm riding, it's sitting outside of the case in the cup holder.

[larrybud]

I started using a Bushnell 1500 last spring and now it seems I can't paly w/o pulling it out on every shot. It doesn't slow me down but I find myself using it all the time even on shots inside 100 yds. Anyone else do this and is it good or bad?

 

If it isn't slowing you down, then how could getting an exact yardage possibly be a bad thing?

 

When I first started using my laser a few years ago, I started thinking too much and trying to manipulate the shot too much because I knew the exact yardage. 56 or 58 yards? It mattered at that time. Now I take it as just a piece of the bigger picture.

[sanddog28]

I have a 1500 TE and use it every shot, living in Orlando there is no such thing as walking anymore, so I have learned that the "waist" strap fits perfectly around my bag and through the cart strap loop on the front of the bag to create a very secure hold, and just let the magnetic closure on the pouch do its job. As I pull up its as simple as pull out shoot and grab the club. I don’t see how anyone could think this is slower than driving around in circles looking for a sprinkler head that might or might not be marked or walking off a yardage. The only thing that could be faster is guessing and I have definitely seen an improvement in my GIR since this purchase.

[PGMlady]

I do not own one but it's nice when one of my playing partners has one. I walk most of the time on the course and am used to using the sprinkler heads to yardage.

[JerseyGolfer]

I started using a Bushnell 1500 last spring and now it seems I can't paly w/o pulling it out on every shot. It doesn't slow me down but I find myself using it all the time even on shots inside 100 yds. Anyone else do this and is it good or bad?

 

If it isn't slowing you down, then how could getting an exact yardage possibly be a bad thing?

 

It's not getting the yardage that's a bad thing. I mean just depending on it so much. I feel too much like if I forgot it or it didn't work that I'd be lost now. I guess I feel like the game is ruined a little by using this technology. Although I am never short or long of a green anymore. Just left or right!

[TheCapedAvenger]

Eh, no biggie. I'd be lost without clubs. Equipment is essential to play this game :shout:

[8thehardway]

I started using a Bushnell 1500 last spring and now it seems I can't paly w/o pulling it out on every shot. It doesn't slow me down but I find myself using it all the time even on shots inside 100 yds. Anyone else do this and is it good or bad?

 

If it isn't slowing you down, then how could getting an exact yardage possibly be a bad thing?

 

It's not getting the yardage that's a bad thing. I mean just depending on it so much. I feel too much like if I forgot it or it didn't work that I'd be lost now. I guess I feel like the game is ruined a little by using this technology. Although I am never short or long of a green anymore. Just left or right!

 

Personally, I think technology has the potential to make golf less interesting. With rangefinders or gps units, I'd miss the challenges of dealing with those wonderful optical illusions architects can design into a hole and I certainly wouldn't care to learn my 230-yard drive only went 200 yards. Aside from blind holes on an unfamiliar course, I prefer to do without them. OTOH, I use the latest in club technology to give me a chance at being on a green in regulation. It comes down to engaging as many senses and abilities as I can while preserving the most challenges and still having a shot at par. But if I wanted the best scores, I'd get a rangefinder without a second thought

[iteachgolf]

I think it could hurt you for tournament play because you'd be without it in any major event

[Ridgecrest18]

I bought a SkyCaddie when they were first were accepted by USGA. Like you, I became almost completely dependent upon it for virtually every shot. At the beginning of this last season, I started "guess-ti-mating" my distances prior to looking at what the SkyCaddie had for yardage(s) and found that I the device had helped me learn to feel yardage(s) [naked eye / line of sight] to within a half a club or so (6 to 10 yards).

 

I still love knowing the exact carry and through yardages the SkyCaddie provides, but have become much less dependent in the general sense of its use. :shout:

[atlanta golfer]

What major (amateur) events don't allow rangefinders or skycaddies? As long as you are not dense enough to understand not to buy anything with a slope feature, these devices are allowed for all events that I have been part of.

 

 

I think it could hurt you for tournament play because you'd be without it in any major event

[iteachgolf]

[quote name='atlanta golfer' post='797447' date='Nov 20 2007, 09:07 PM']What major (amateur) events don't allow rangefinders or skycaddies? As long as you are not dense enough to understand not to buy anything with a slope feature, these devices are allowed for all events that I have been part of.


[quote name='mizunofan2' post='797270' date='Nov 20 2007, 06:11 PM']I think it could hurt you for tournament play because you'd be without it in any major event[/quote]
[/quote]

not a single Florida State Golf Association Amateur Championship suxh as the Florida State Am or State Match Play or any of the USGA Events or Qualifiers I have been a part of. The only events I've played in that has allowed them is on the Dakotas Tour.

[atlanta golfer]

That's odd because the GSGA (Georgia State Golf Association) which is a USGA member does allow them in it's tournaments, for sure in the Public Links Tourney which I played in. Also for most of us who are not quite at that high level of play, we play the various amateur tours and also club championships, league play, and for USGA handicaps, these devices are all acceptable in those competitions.

[JerseyGolfer]

[quote name='mizunofan2' post='797270' date='Nov 20 2007, 06:11 PM']I think it could hurt you for tournament play because you'd be without it in any major event[/quote]
I believe that they are legal for tournament use as long as no slope feature is present. Correct?

[krustyburger]

[quote name='Howellgolf' post='797887' date='Nov 21 2007, 09:57 AM'][quote name='mizunofan2' post='797270' date='Nov 20 2007, 06:11 PM']I think it could hurt you for tournament play because you'd be without it in any major event[/quote]
I believe that they are legal for tournament use as long as no slope feature is present. Correct?
[/quote]

It depends on the tournament. The slope feature is never allowed.

[Ridgecrest18]

The USGA's ruling on these devices allows individual courses, state associations and/or event organizers, to adopt local rules governing their use during tournament play. The ruling also limits the information which can be provided by electronic distance measuring devices during the course of play, not allowing the device to measure either wind-speed [anemometers] or slopes, inclines and planes. The use these devices comes at the sole descretion of local tournament(s), associations and event organizer(s).

The USGA, however (to date), does not allow their use during any "stipulated round" of a USGA event, either Open or Amateur. These devices can be used (under that same ruling) during "practice rounds" and to establish course yardages prior to the play of a stipulated round.

[sdrem]

I have the Nikon 500G. I love it because you can get the exact yardage to the flag, and it has helped me learn my yardages with my clubs. you can also use it to get distances for layup
shots like distance to a tree or bunker, or carry over a creek. I don't see why they don't allow them during PGA events, it would probably speed up play.

Steve

[Lake]

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[Golfdog]

Great topic. I use a rangefinder all the time. I find it crucial as I get closer to the green. For my game, there's not a critical club selection difference between 211 and 219, but a big difference 73 and 82.

I thought that having a rangefinder would hurt my ability to gauge distances by eye, but just the opposite. On the few times I haven't been able to use it, I have gotten better at judging distances from 100 yards and in.

The USGA still doesn't allow rangefinders (DME) in their tournaments. My state association didn't used to allow them, but then changed this past year. This was a big benefit to me, because I don't need to paly as many practice rounds now.

I use a Nikon Monarch 800, which has Pinseeker-style "first priority" technology. It is great because it performs so well, is waterproof and is very compact. It is marketed to hunters rather than golfers, but Callaway just started selling rebranded 800s (while bumping the price way up).

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could you give me some more info on this product, it seems to be the only one available in the UK for a reasonable price. I believe it does not have the equivalent of 'pinseeker' mode but how do you find it?

[jeremyblre21]

I use a sky caddie which I believe is a waste off the tee but critical for shots into greens or finding how far you hit your clubs.

I use yardage books off the tee if i am unfamiliar with the course.

[golf9596]

Just went from a Bushnell to the SC4. I liked the Bushnell, but the SC gives me the yardage no matter where I hit it, LOL.