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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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 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.

Check out the video to see the Garmin GolfLogix GPS-8 in action!

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