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Old 11-04-2013, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by DonH57 View Post
I'm fairly new to golf and have a question about the various range finders/ golf gps devices I see for sale. Are the distance markers on the tees that innaccurate? Just curious. I haven't been on all the courses in TV so maybe all golf courses do not have markers?
only if you know how far you hit each club regularly. If you don't know then just go by the yardage markers because(and I don't mean this impolitely)if you only can come +/- 10 yards or so you don't need a device to be that precise.

A laser is the most precise, but suffers in fog and shaky hands. A gps device is fine, but suffers in accuracy when getting exact distances to pin, near/far side of the lakes/bunkers etc.