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The Golf Buddy World Plat­inum GPS Range Finder is one of the more full-featured golf GPS sys­tems. It fea­tures a 3 inch color touch­screen and comes pre­loaded with 40,000 courses from around the world. There are no sub­scrip­tion or annual fees.

Sim­i­lar to the GolfLogix GPS-8, the Golf Buddy World Plat­inum auto­mat­i­cally detects what course and hole you are on. It will also auto­mat­i­cally advance from hole to hole. This may seem like a small fea­ture, but not hav­ing to man­u­ally advance to the next hole lets you con­cen­trate more on your play.

The Golf Buddy World Plat­inum includes dis­tances to the front, cen­ter and back of every green along with yardages to bunkers and haz­ards. Layup yardages are also shown for every hole. One of the best fea­tures is the abil­ity to add cus­tom tar­gets which allows you to add a point from any­where on a hole.

The hole map will auto­mat­i­cally zoom in and out depend­ing on where you are at. The green also rotates to cor­rectly dis­play the angle you are approach­ing from. Four player scor­ing and the abil­ity to record the dis­tance of your shots round out this full-featured golf GPS sys­tem.

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The Garmin Approach S1 is some­thing new in the world of golf GPS sys­tems. It is a flex­i­ble sports watch with an inte­grated GPS receiver that shows you the dis­tance to the front, cen­ter and back of every green for over 15,000 courses in the US and Canada. The Approach S1 can also dis­play indi­vid­ual shot dis­tances mak­ing it a great func­tion­ing golf GPS system.

The 15,000+ courses are pre­loaded with no sub­scrip­tion fees or down­loads needed. This means the Approach S1 is ready to go out of the box.

The Garmin Approach S1, besides being a golf GPS sys­tem, serves very well as an every­day watch. It fea­tures an odome­ter that can track your dis­tance both on and off the course. An alarm, recharge­able lithium ion bat­tery, and auto­matic time and time zone set­ting round out the features.

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Today’s post is our first review of a smart phone golf GPS appli­ca­tion — specif­i­cally the GolfLogix iPhone app. The GolfLogix iPhone appli­ca­tion is a free down­load and includes a 24 hour guest mem­ber­ship. A reg­u­lar mem­ber­ship after that is $39.95 per year.

The GolfLogix app shows yardages to the front, cen­ter and back of every green along with yardages to haz­ards, doglegs and layups. It can also be con­fig­ured to track any or all of a large num­ber of stats.

Although I love the GolfLogix iPhone appli­ca­tion, I still have reser­va­tions in using my iPhone as a golf GPS sys­tem. Rain and the phys­i­cal bang­ing around are my two biggest concerns.

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Izzo Golf recently sent me a Swami 1500 golf GPS sys­tem to review. The Izzo Golf Swami 1500 is the least expen­sive stand­alone golf GPS sys­tem avail­able today. Now any­one can have a golf GPS sys­tem for under the price of two dozen Titleist ProV1 golf balls!

The Swami 1500 only has one fea­ture — the most impor­tant fea­ture of any golf GPS sys­tem. It accu­rately dis­plays the dis­tance to the front, cen­ter and back of every green.

Watch the Izzo Golf Swami 1500 in action!

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Garmin recently debuted the Approach G3 golf GPS sys­tem. The G3 is billed as the Approach G5’s pocket size lit­tle brother. It’s basi­cally only a half of an inch shorter than the G5 but weighs a con­sid­er­able 1.5 ounces less. The Approach G3 also retails for $100 less than the G5.

Sounds great! Why would any­one not choose the new Approach G3 over the proven Approach G5? There are two rea­sons why one would still choose the G5.

The new Garmin Approach G3 has a 2.6 inch screen while the G5 has a 3 inch screen. Since we are talk­ing about touch­screen golf GPS sys­tems, screen size is a major fac­tor in usability.

The biggest rea­son the G5 is still supe­rior is it’s new stat track­ing capa­bil­ity. You can now track putts per round, fair­ways and greens hit, and the aver­age dis­tance of every club in your bag on the G5. Even though these new fea­tures are deliv­ered to exist­ing G5’s with a firmware update, they have been made not avail­able on the Approach G3.

The Garmin Approach G3 is a great choice if you’re look­ing for a smaller, lighter touch­screen golf GPS sys­tem and can live with­out the stat track­ing. The G3 has all the other great fea­tures of the G5 includ­ing dis­tance to any point on the hole, man­ual pin posi­tion­ing and course preview.

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I’ve updated the Golf GPS Com­par­i­son page! In addi­tion to adding images, I’ve also changed the lay­out which will more eas­ily enable me to add future golf GPS systems!

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Garmin recently announced a free soft­ware update for its pop­u­lar Approach G5 golf GPS sys­tem. The update will allow users to track key stats for their round. This new func­tion­al­ity fur­ther builds on the Garmin Approach G5 being one of the best golf GPS sys­tems avail­able today.

Fair­ways hit, greens hit in reg­u­la­tion, putts per round and how far you hit each club can now be tracked on the Approach G5. Track­ing your stats is essen­tial to improv­ing your game.  Track­ing and ana­lyz­ing your stats tells you exactly what area of your game to con­cen­trate on at the prac­tice range.

These new fea­tures are built upon the Approach G5’s exist­ing score­card func­tion­al­ity. You can track the addi­tional stats for one or mul­ti­ple play­ers of your four­some. Answer­ing two addi­tional ques­tions per hole is all that is required to take advan­tage of the new stat tracking.

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The Izzo SWAMI 1500 is the least expen­sive golf GPS sys­tem on the mar­ket. It dis­plays the dis­tance to the front, cen­ter and back of every green which is the most ben­e­fi­cial fea­ture that golf GPS sys­tems can offer.

Hit­ting more greens in reg­u­la­tion is the key to scor­ing lower. You will hit more greens in reg­u­la­tion if you start look­ing at the dis­tance to the green as a yardage range instead of a sin­gle yardage. Know­ing the dis­tance to the front, cen­ter and back of every green is a great tool for hit­ting more greens.

The Izzo SWAMI 1500 dis­plays the yardages with large, easy-to-read num­bers. Another nice touch is that it auto­mat­i­cally knows what course you are on upon pow­er­ing up. The SWAMI holds 10 courses and the $9.99 annual sub­scrip­tion gives you access to choose from over 12,000 courses.

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If you have held off buy­ing a new golf GPS sys­tem because you thought they were too expen­sive — think again! The iGolf Neo Pock­et­size Golf GPS is now avail­able for $129!

The iGolf Neo Pock­et­size Golf GPS does not have graph­i­cal hole lay­outs, score­cards, or stats track­ing like some of the higher-end golf GPS sys­tems. It does offer the most impor­tant fea­ture that a golf GPS sys­tem can. The iGolf Neo dis­plays the dis­tances to the front, cen­ter and back of every green. It will also show the yardage dis­tances for up to four cus­tom points per hole. These cus­tom points can be edited by you and used to dis­play yardages needed to carry haz­ards or layup yardages. The iGolf Neo will also dis­play the dis­tance of your last shot. Know­ing how far you hit each club in your bag is instru­men­tal in improv­ing your golf game.

The iGolf Neo Pock­et­size Golf GPS will hold up to ten courses. Down­load from over 32,000 courses at iGolf.com by pur­chas­ing a yearly sub­scrip­tion of $34.95. The iGolf Neo gives you the abil­ity to map your own courses. Map courses your­self and skip the subscription!

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