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I just purchased one of these because it was on a really good sale (I guess they're coming out the the Band 3's soon?) and had a $20 reward certificate to Best Buy that was expiring in August. Since I hardly ever buy anything from Best Buy I figured what the hay, I'll give it a shot. So I got this thing for $80.

It appears to function like some of the other standalone wrist GPS devices where you can track your score, and see front-center-back yardages. I currently use the GolfPad GPS app on my phone with a phone caddie holder thing for my push cart. I love it, but in the summer heat my phone gets too hot soaking up all that sun so I've been having to cover it with a towel. I'm hoping this band has a higher temperature tolerance (since it's not running many processes I would think).

I've never been a fan of the whole heart rate tracking, sleep tracking and the oh-so-commonly-talked-about "STEPS TAKEN." But it will be interesting to see what those stats come back at with having walked a round of golf. 

So do any of y'all have this device? I usually spend more time researching things like this but the deal was pretty good and selling out fast and I had a BB coupon I knew would go to waste if I didn't buy this - being a tech nut myself I figured I'd make the impulse buy. 

If you have this device it would be very good to hear your thoughts, specifically on the golf stuff (or anything else I guess). The app is through Taylormade so I imagine it's halfway decent? Does the automatic shot tracking work pretty good? Is it easy to keep your score correct (although I always fill in my score at the end of a round lol)? Is the GPS reliable and does it update your location pretty quickly (sometimes my GolfPad takes like 15+ seconds to lock in on my location which doesn't seem like much but if I'm getting a yardage then I don't have a club out of the bag yet and it can slow down play sometimes).

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Ball: Whatever. Something soft. Kirklands Signature are pretty schweeeet at the moment!

Bag: :sunmountain: C130 Cart Bag Push Cart: :sunmountain: Micro Cart Sport

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