Say NO! to gps/yardage computers

[Topanga]

I feel the yardage computers take away from the game. The fun is to look at the markers and think, maybe easy 6 or a 7. I have to also say I'm '"real" tired of my golf partners looking a their I phone or other yardage computer and spending WAY TOO long analizing their shot. As you can probably can tell I think yardage computers are a NO GO!

I'm sure I going to receive a lot of negative responce on this post but keep in mind, Golf is an old game with old rules not a new tech like a "video " game. Leave the computers at home and take your clubs. Leave your yardage computers at home. Are you not man or women enough to play without a computer????

Enjoy the game like the founders

Rick

[Fat Slice]

Enjoy the game like the founders

You mean hit a leather bag stuffed with feathers with a carved stick?

No thanks!

[Fourputt]

I feel the yardage computers take away from the game. The fun is to look at the markers and think, maybe easy 6 or a 7. I have to also say I'm '"real" tired of my golf partners looking a their I phone or other yardage computer and spending WAY TOO long analizing their shot. As you can probably can tell I think yardage computers are a NO GO!

What driver do you use? What wedges? Putter? Ball? Give it a rest guy.

It's faster to use a GPS or laser than it is to search for a sprinkler and pace off the yardage. That's what better players did before the electronics were legalized by the ruling bodies. I played in the first round of the Men's Club Championship today with a guy who was living in the stone age. He took two to three times as long to get ready to hit as the other 3 of us with our toys. By the time we got to the back nine he was a convert and was asking for yardages, and just incidentally, he was playing faster too.

[Topanga]

Let me guess. most of you guys are under 30. You younger guys think tech can help with eveything,. Try to enjoy an old game as it was ment to be played. the computers are B***T

[Lean, Mean, Hitting Machine]

DRIVER Titleist 909D2 UST Proforce AXIV Tour Black 79
HYBRID Titleist 585H 17* 21* UST Proforce V2 100
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Look at this guys clubs and tell me he has anything to do with the gameplay of the founders...New technology in clubs does way more to the game of golf than gps idiot.

[glebert]

I'm with the OP. Actually I don't care what YOU do, as long as it isn't slowing things down (but I do think GPS can) but I spend enough time looking at a glowing rectangle at work or home, I don't want to when I'm golfing.

[iacas]

DRIVER Titleist 909D2 UST Proforce AXIV Tour Black 79

[Fat Slice]

Let me guess. most of you guys are under 30. You younger guys think tech can help with eveything,. Try to enjoy an old game as it was ment to be played. the computers are B***T

See you on the course!

[Shindig]

Let me guess. most of you guys are under 30. You younger guys think tech can help with eveything,. Try to enjoy an old game as it was ment to be played. the computers are B***T

But you're OK with frequency matching, metal woods, and irons with a cavity?

Obvious troll is obvious.

[kris]

Don't you want a correct yardage?

[leo3]

I'll give up my laser when you switch back to hickory shafts, if you are such a fan of the game "as it was meant to be played". And I'm not under 30, I'm 53.

[xTsUnAmI]

You don't think people back the pre gps had exact yardages. Caddies. Now everyone has access to that knowledge, and to disregard that is pretty stupid.

Or you're trolling.

[Big_M]

You mean hit a leather bag stuffed with feathers with a carved stick?

nice!

What driver do you use? What wedges? Putter? Ball? Give it a rest guy.

more valid points here!

You don't think people back the pre gps had exact yardages. Caddies. Now everyone has access to that knowledge, and to disregard that is pretty stupid.

I would gladly trade my gps for a good caddie, but I have only been to a handful of courses that still have caddies.

Also, I bet the OP rides a cart when he golfs as well... that technology is OK, along with the other technology others have pointed out that he uses. Walking (which fits with tradition) is one of the reasons I started using GPS in the first place. I have been to a few courses that have GPS on the carts and thus don't feel the need to have yardage markers... how f-ing annoying if you're walking, thankfully I have a GPS. Also, what is faster... 1) pacing off yardage after searching for sprinkler heads or yardage markers, then accounting for green depth (if available) OR 2) quickly looking down to see yardages to everything I need on my handy GPS. Just a note: I'm 29, never even take my cell onto the course, generally don't have fancy gadgets on my cell phone to begin with, am not all that into every single tech toy out there, BUT... I WILL use technology when it is BETTER than the old way and makes life easier. For instance.... 1) I like my ipod 2) GPS navigation is nice 3) cell phones are handy... but I don't need the camera, keyboard, games, or apps 4) digital cameras are nice... I like having photos on disk rather than in albums 5) I'm pretty happy not to have to rewind and FF VHS tapes and cassettes

[Topanga]

Club technology has "nothing" to do with computer technology and yardage GPS. Please don't tell me that a GPS is the same as 460cc drivers or cast vs blades. Why are you saying my bag is b***t I think my combo as nothing to with computer tech. I'm sure I'm starting a flame but with you tech/computer guys, Golf is not a tech thing it's a great natural game. Yes, tech helps the sport but it's still the swing and swinger not the computer that determines easy 6 or full 7

Looking forward to the your fedback, really

[enis750]

ok i can see two points here
i do have to agree w the OP, that GPS has taken some of the fun out of golf and the feel of the game
i too was a GPS beleiver...shot the worst golf of my life w it
since not using it, my game improved significantly

BUT....he is not trying to say ALL technology has bad
yes, we all agree that new tech. has made the ball easier to hit and so on

really though, shes all personal opinion
some guys like em, some dont...to each their own

[lobsterzilla]

ok i can see two points here

wait what ... no? you can't just pick and choose. What a douche thing to say? lol that's like saying "yah man !! im going to go run the boston marathon! i really want to get back to the basics and participate in an experience like none other !!!!! but i really think im just going to go in roller skates because well .... i mean it helps, but atleast im not driving so it's totally still the same as running !" give it a rest.

[vferrari]

I feel the yardage computers take away from the game.

I'm sorry but I don't have a caddie walking the course for me and marking every yardage, hazards and green slopes for me. It's about information not technology. The technology enables the information to play better and have more fun. I'll keep my rangefinder and GPS rather than walking around aimlessly until I find a sprinkler head then walk it off.

[Spackler-esque]

Club technology has "nothing" to do with computer technology and yardage GPS. Please don't tell me that a GPS is the same as 460cc drivers or cast vs blades. Why are you saying my bag is b***t I think my combo as nothing to with computer tech. I'm sure I'm starting a flame but with you tech/computer guys, Golf is not a tech thing it's a great natural game. Yes, tech helps the sport but it's still the swing and swinger not the computer that determines easy 6 or full 7

Golf is CLEARLY a tech thing. Club design, if I'm not mistaken, is almost all done with CAD and other similar software packages.

I assume you are against video based swing analysis, too? Club technology has done more to change the game than GPS technology ever will. GPS is an advancement of the yardage book. And it is much, much closer to that old technology than new clubs are to their predecessors. GPS will not cause courses to push back the tee boxes or grow out the rough in order to counter it. In fact, many courses have embraced GPS technology because it speeds up play, even for the weekend hacker. Seriously, buddy, I'm a relative luddite when it comes to small gadgets and even I think you're just being an ignorant fool.