![]() And if it was a course we’d never played before? Well, make sure to pack plenty of balatas. “Technology is now catching up and giving us hardware advancements, so we can give golfers close to the same detailed information Tour players use in their yardage books.”ĭo you remember what it was like back in the dark ages of oh, say, 1999? We’d hunt for the 150-marker, step off the approximate yards to our ball, do a little mental trigonometry to adjust for topography, pick a club and whack away. “We’ve had handheld devices through the years,” says Paul Calabrase, National Sales Manager for SkyGolf, maker of Sk圜addie GPS watches and handhelds. That’s true for both the hardware and the software. There’s no shortage of options in this particular golf technology category, and every year the technology improves. Whether to use a laser, watch, or handheld (a stand-alone like the SX500, or a phone app) is an age-old question, kind of like Ginger vs. Our testers appreciated the SX500’s visuals, functionality and feature set, so we thought it might be interesting to take a deeper dive into the technology behind it all and discuss how – and if – it might matter when you’re on the course. This past summer, the Sk圜addie SX500 copped “2019 Best Handheld Device” in MyGolfSpy’s GPS Buyer’s Guide. ![]()
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