Distance Measuring Devices
Calcuating the exact yardage to a location has been every hackers dream for years and GPS devices have been available to golfers for about a decade now. For professional tour players however, knowing exact yardages is a job requirement if they’re going to be competitive on the PGA tour. Long-time golf fans know that yardage books are the absolute bible for tour players and back in the 70s and 80s, touring professionals could actually buy yardage books from other caddies and suppliers. It wasn’t long before tour players started using full-time caddies and they were soon creating their own yardage books for every course on the tour.
Fast forward to this decade and hand-held distance measuring devices (DMDs) have become the norm for touring caddies to verify and log yardages during practice rounds. Bushnell has recently released an updated $499.00 rangerfinder that also gives slope information, in addition to yardage information. However, instead of using GPS, the Bushnell Pinseeker uses a laser to determine distances.
So I’m curious how many weekend hackers actually use the Bushnell or any other DMD on your local course.