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I just bought a golfbuddy platinum GPS yesterday. I have not taken it out yet on a course but of course in researching it I saw a lot of great things and some not so great, decided to give it a go since I have 30 days to return it with a full refund. Does anyone have this particular GPS? If so what do you think of it? If not, which do you have and would you recommend it?
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| # 1 10/18/2011 3:24:31 PM |
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The only negative is its kind of hard to see the screen in bright sun shine, but my eyes aren't that great. Other than that, I think its great, no downloads of any kind. have not been to a course thats not preloaded.
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| # 2 10/18/2011 3:50:05 PM |
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Do you try to use it to keep your scores? Measure your drives? Or do you mainly use it just for yardage?
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| # 3 10/18/2011 6:09:26 PM |
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I just use a cheap Sonnocaddie GPS. It works pretty good for me and is really simple to use.
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| # 4 10/18/2011 6:15:21 PM |
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Do you try to use it to keep your scores? Measure your drives? Or do you mainly use it just for yardage? I've kept score on it. measures distance for your drives very easy, but for the most part just for distance to the pin. easy to move the pin on the green to get exact spot yardage, not just front, middle, back.
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| # 5 10/18/2011 6:16:36 PM |
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Works great for course management. I have found it to be accurate on most (>90%) of the courses I have used it on.
The scoring features seem to take a bit of extra time on the course but the stats that it creates are great. |
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| # 6 10/18/2011 6:44:55 PM |
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Works great for course management. I have found it to be accurate on most (>90%) of the courses I have used it on. The scoring features seem to take a bit of extra time on the course but the stats that it creates are great. Yeah thats what I was thinking it would be, now can you actually stand at the spot of your drive and save that onto the gps so you can fill out the distances and things later? |
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| # 7 10/18/2011 10:16:35 PM |
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I have had a Golf Buddy Pro for a couple of years and if the Platinum is anywhere near as good, I think you'll love it. I like the fact that I don't have to download anything. All I have to do is turn it on, it automatically determines where and which course it is on. Very cool.......
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| # 8 10/19/2011 3:51:27 PM |
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I have the world and I use it all the time. Don't even carry a score card. I check the distances the first couple of hole just to make sure they are close, and they usually are!
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| # 9 11/1/2011 10:29:04 AM |
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Works great for course management. I have found it to be accurate on most (>90%) of the courses I have used it on. The scoring features seem to take a bit of extra time on the course but the stats that it creates are great. Yeah thats what I was thinking it would be, now can you actually stand at the spot of your drive and save that onto the gps so you can fill out the distances and things later? You could do that however it is easier just to use the "mark" feature while on the tee-box then look at the "distance from mark" when you get to your ball. You do have to write this number down somewhere though, the device does not track it. |
