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Why Your Best Golfing Partner Is A Gps
You may be surprised to learn that there is a new tool for your golf arsenal, an electronic gadget that truly lives up to the claim that it can actually improve your golf game. There are now GPS units specifically designed to for use on the golf course.
What is a golf GPS? Using the same process of communicating with satellites to determine your location as your car GPS, the key piece of information provided by all golf GPS units is your distance and direction to the hole. Having this information can help you make strategic choices regarding club type, direction and necessary amount of power for your shot. In addition, a golf GPS can help you in situations when you are playing on a course for the first time. In this way the golf GPS can help level the playing fields and take away the advantage from players who are already familiar with the course.
Advanced golf GPS units can also calculate the distance traveled during your last shot, alert you to the presence of water hazards and bunkers and direct you to target locations. You can zoom in on your current position and analyze your current position in relation to targets or other parts of the course. The GPS stores all of this information so that you can refer to it in the future. Some units include a course recognition feature which automatically recognizes the course you are playing on.
Higher-end golf GPS models will log information about all of your shots in a round, allowing golfers to view and analyze their performance. Others have a scorecard feature that tracks your score and then summarizes the information for your review.
To use a golf GPS, you must have a relatively unobstructed view of the sky so that the GPS can quickly communicate with satellites. After that, it
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Leslie G. Williams has authored hundreds of articles about the latest consumer electronics in our lives. She is a frequent contributor to Rated4Stars.com, providing consumer GPS reviews, ratings and advice about GPS navigation systems, including Golf GPS Reviews. Rated4Stars features only the best GPS systems, rated 4 stars or higher. Copyright
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