[slahitou]

www.gpsgolfbuddy.com

Any info on this unit. No monthly fee and works all around the world (i travel a lot). HOw accurate are readings, easy of use, etc.

Thanks in advance,

Santiago

[golfquest]

I've been to the golfbuddy site and I'm very interested also.

[golfer72]

Hey Santi,

They are looking for distributors, the guy to talk to is neville Hong... e-mail: neville@golfbuddyglobal.com

Sam

[Borthwick]

I've used one for the past 90 days and have played about 20 rounds with it.

It's as accurate as any other GPS on the market from what I have been able to observe. On the courses I play the most, it is a little light on having distances to all of the bunkers, hazards, etc.

I bought the top-end Tour model. If I could do it over again, I would have gone with the next model down. The color feature just isn't worth the extra $$$ IMO.

[Jtwo]

Borthwick, on Oct 18 2009, 06:24 AM, said:

I've used one for the past 90 days and have played about 20 rounds with it.

It's as accurate as any other GPS on the market from what I have been able to observe. On the courses I play the most, it is a little light on having distances to all of the bunkers, hazards, etc.

I bought the top-end Tour model. If I could do it over again, I would have gone with the next model down. The color feature just isn't worth the extra $ IMO.

I agree with the above assessment that it's light on bunker, hazards, etc...distances. As for accuracy, I initially thought it wasn't very good but after playing a few rounds with others who have laser rangefinders, a Sonocaddie V300 and a Skycaddie, the yardages always seemed to be +/- a couple of yards.

If you do travel a lot, there are quite a few course available. I've played in France, the Phillipines and Poland and the courses I played were available.

[Buzzkill]

I had one and it worked fine - no issues with yardages, pretty accurate. I did have a couple discrepancies on 2 courses I played regularly but they never fixed them after months of requests. I think there customer service is lacking a little but it was good unit.

[golfnut5438]

If you want simple easy and fast, its for you. One button operation, rarely need to even use the button either. Low frills, basic and as far as I can tell by comparing to others with lasers or other GPS, just as accurate. Only downside I have is I assume too often w/o checking that it will have the course loaded already. But 95% of the time it usually does. I have just have taken it for granted they would always be there. Can sometimes be a little slow to update to a new location, but that's the worst I can say about it.

[labillyboy]

I have had mine for about 6 months, used it in 7 states on quite a few different courses....

I am glad I did not go for the color screen, the non-color model works great and is easy to see in all light conditions...

As said earlier, there seem to be a few holes here and there that just don't add up, but I keep my Bushnell in the bag when there is any doubt or I really want a dead on yardage. I have matched up with just about every other GPS out there... not much difference.

I love the fact that it holds 10's of thousands of courses.. in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Orange County and San Diego where I play the most, there are 100's of golf courses... it is nice to not have to worry about downloading all the time. Not uncommon for my friend with the Skycaddie to show up and not have the course we are playing... or we decide to change courses at the last minute due to conditions...