Interesting concept - this company will appify drone recorded course aerials

[Golfingdad]

1 hour ago, Bryan Kasper said:

hmmm those are 2 good points. so i guess then there is no difference between them. (unless you are on a cart, where as you cant really count steps after you come upon a yardage marker.) because a person walking up to a ball having a phone gps out means about 5-7 seconds to update, look and then put the phone in the pocket, add in a couple small calculations for flag position on the green, and boom done in 9-10 secs. rangefinders take maybe 10 secs per shot because of the obvious challenges of getting the laser right on the flag. doesn't differ from the normal yardage markers by more than a couple secs when you think about it. although they may add up over the course of a round.

Right, but remember that if you're keeping up with the group in front of you, then those seconds never add up because all of that is still done before its your turn.  And, even if there isn't anybody in front of you, much of the time those seconds won't add up because you can do it when it's somebody else in your groups turn.  There is no reason why any type of distance measuring should add any significant time at all to your round. :)

 

On 1/7/2016 at 1:32 PM, Bryan Kasper said:

well unless people just pull a random club and guess yardages every shot.

I forgot to mention before ... I actually used to be pretty decent at this.  When I was younger, I played at a lot of courses that had only 150 bushes on the holes and nothing else.  If I was short of that marker and there was nobody on the green, then I'd just eyeball it.  Do that enough, and you can develop a fairly keen eye (or maybe not eye, maybe more of a feel for the actual shot - meaning I didn't guess the number right but instinctively "knew" the shot it required.) for whats needed.

Bottom line, I don't think my handicap would go up too much if all distance helping devices and items were eliminated.