gps

[dmnoland]

I just love my Garmin G5! It measures my shots, keeps track of all my distances per club and all my stats. Even though I try to walk my rounds I am really kinda lazy and I like not having to hunt down sprinkler heads or guess yardages. Someone mentioned battery life, I get 2 to 3 rounds out of rechargable AA's.

[alomar123]

Just adding in no matter what you choose most gps sites will tell you what courses they have. This might narrow your choices down some.

[BT100]

  assassin307 said:

I just bought the Golf Buddy. No fees and works great. I paid about $200 for it.

I paid the same $200 for my Golf Buddy Pro and have downloaded several additional courses already. I've been very pleased with the unit and feel pretty confident in the accuracy of the unit. I purchased a RAM holder and it works on both the push cart and golf cart. I've had the unit for 6 month now and no problems at all, other than forgetting to charge the unit. I get about 54 holes of golf out of a charge.

[teamgs]

I have the IGolf (now Bushnell) Neo, and it is very small but with lots of good info, and tons of courses. For $30 per year, you get 100 course downloads per year, yours to keep if you cancel. Sooo..if 100 courses covers your golf area, you can be all set for $30.

Gary

[dmnoland]

  zeg said:

Wish I had the $ to pick up a G3 or G5... trying to decide whether it's worth waiting until I can get one of the spiffy mapping units or just drop the smaller $ for the Neo or similar. Mostly I just want to measure shots, so I don't really care so much about the maps, but I played on a couple courses with nice mapping GPSes in the carts and it was really nice for an unfamiliar course.

If your still looking at the G5, i noticed that Amazon has lowered its price to 279. Kinda funny that i'm sure that somebody somewhere today is still gonna pay 400 at Golfsmith or GG.

[zeg]

That's weird. It's cheaper than a G3, or even a refurbished G5 on Amazon right now. Wonder why. Sadly, even at this price I can't pull the trigger....