The OnPar Touch­screen is a full fea­tured golf GPS sys­tem. Setup is easy to under­stand using the quick start guide and the touch­screen makes for an enjoy­able user experience.

The OnPar gives you the dis­tance to the front, cen­ter and back of every green like any of the other golf GPS sys­tems. It also dis­plays a graph­i­cal over­head view of the hole lay­out which is instru­men­tal in help­ing you visu­al­ize and plan your shots. From this view you can touch any spot on the hole and get both the yardage to that spot and the yardage to the pin from that spot. The OnPar fea­tures a score­card that allows you to record your score, num­ber of putts and whether you hit the fair­way and green in reg­u­la­tion for each hole. The shot track­ing fea­ture enables you to track each shot and the club you used. The OnPar then cal­cu­lates your min­i­mum, max­i­mum and aver­age dis­tances that you have hit each club. You can sync the infor­ma­tion from your OnPar to your PC for future analysis.

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Every golf GPS system’s main fea­ture is the abil­ity to tell you the dis­tances to the front, cen­ter and back of every green. It is also the fea­ture that will most ben­e­fit your golf game.

The yardage mark­ers on the golf course tell you the dis­tance to the cen­ter of the green. With­out a yardage book, you have no idea what the size of the green is so you can­not deter­mine the dis­tances to the front and back of the green. This causes you to con­cen­trate on and use the yardage to the cen­ter of the green. A bet­ter approach is to ini­tially look at the yardage range from the front to the back of the green.

Golf GPS sys­tems give you a yardage range to con­cen­trate on instead of a sin­gle yardage. You will want to nar­row down this ini­tial range. The process of nar­row­ing down this range makes you think about pin place­ment and which way the green slopes. My ball might be sit­ting right at the 150 yard marker which is a per­fect seven iron for me. By look­ing at my golf GPS sys­tem, I see I have 135 yards to the front of the green and 165 yards to the back. I need to nar­row this yardage range down, so I look at the pin and notice it is on the front half of the green. I would esti­mate it to be 140 to 145 yards away. I also look at the slope of the green and see it slopes down from the back to the front. Armed with this infor­ma­tion, I now see that I’d be much bet­ter off hit­ting my eight iron. My eight iron yardage is 140 yards. I will leave myself a nice uphill putt if I hit it a lit­tle short of the hole. If I hit my seven iron, I’d likely land it past the hole and leave myself a tricky down­hill putt.

A golf GPS sys­tem will help you look at the dis­tance left to the green as a yardage range. This gives you an advan­tage com­pared to using the sin­gle yardage to the cen­ter of the green that the golf course yardage mark­ers give you.

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The Garmin GolfLogix GPS-8 is a no frills golf GPS sys­tem that is extremely easy to use. So easy in fact, that after the ini­tial setup, the Garmin GolfLogix GPS-8 is prac­ti­cally turn it on and go!

The Garmin GolfLogix GPS-8 dis­plays the dis­tance to the front, cen­ter and back of every green along with the dis­tances to haz­ards and layup yardages. It will also tell you the dis­tance of your last shot. It does not have the touch­screen, hole fly­overs and game analy­sis of other golf GPS sys­tems. The Garmin GolfLogix GPS-8 is per­fectly com­fort­able offer­ing the core fea­tures. This is because it exe­cutes this core fea­tures almost flaw­lessly! Turn the sys­tem on and it auto­mat­i­cally knows what course you are on. It also auto­mat­i­cally advances to the next hole.

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