Well, I just read a document on the R&A website, and there will be a Decision, effective Jan 1st, allowing Committees to allow the use of rangefinders, GPS etc. in tournaments.
Without this Condition of Competition their use will be still forbidden. Ciao, Marcello 2005/10/9, Alan Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Gramps, > > Consider a hand held GPS (www.skygolf.com). They're a touch pricey but > work great. They have a huge number of courses already surveyed that you > can download and if your favorite course isn't in there it is easy to do > the survey yourself and add it to your 'folder'. By surveyed I mean that > they have determined latitude and longitude of the front, back, and center > of the greens (as well as some hazards on some courses) so that the hand > held unit can calculate distances. They control use of their database by > only allowing you to store courses on the GPS unit and your 'folder' on > their website. There is a charge for the course surveys but it's > reasonable. We have cart mounted GPS at one of the local courses as well > as Kirby markers on the course (yardage markers to the center of the green > every 25-yards on both sides of the fairway) and I rarely see disagreement > greater than a few yards. > > Good luck, > > Alan Brooks > > Oh, yeah, I've been told that the USGA is on the verge of approving them > for tournament use. > > > At 04:02 PM 10/8/2005 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi all... > > > >I'm thinking of getting one of those Bushnell type laser rangefinders but > >wanted to find out how easy they are to use. > > > >I assume that they must have some kind of object to reflect off (meaning > >that you couldn't measure distance to the edge of water without locating a > >tree or something nearby). Am I correct? > > > >How steady do you have to be to use it. I currently have a high quality > >optical scope (the type you aim at the bottom of a flag) but holding it > >steady enough to get a reading is difficult for me. > > > >Any comments would be appreciated. > > > >Thanks > > > >Grampa > > -- Ciao, Marcello
