Best Golf Rangefinder
Top 10 Rated Golf Rangefinders 2013
By S. Dee Davis
Following are our choices for the top 10 golf rangefinders for the year after some testing and research. We’ve taken price, quality, and value into account when developing these ratings. Rangefinders were tested based on the following factors:
1. Weight
2. Size/portability
3. Ease of use when depressing contact
4. Battery Life
5. Speed of display response after depressing contact button (yardage)
6. Ease of viewing yardage(s) on display
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Tournament Legal |
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$349 |
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$499 |
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$350 |
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$399 |
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Dimensions: 2.9 inches high x 1.3 inches wide x 4.1 inches deep |
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Accurate to 1 yard |
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5X Magnification |
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GPS |
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Golf Rangefinder Buying Guide
Following are a few tips to help you decide which rangefinder may be right for you.
- Consider your handicap and how precise you need to be. The lower handicap golfer may want the yardage in tenths of the yard, while the higher handicap golfer does not need this. As well, the lower handicap golfer may need the pin distance from a longer range and need more accuracy. These are factors that affect the price of the rangefinder.
- Decide whether you need a golf watch or rangefinder. A GPS golf watch will give high handicap golfers front, middle, and back of green distances which is all they may need. This will prevent losing a rangefinder and the added time to take out the rangefinder and use it.
- Selecting a rangefinder should have the following considerations taken into account:
- size – smaller the better
- weight- lighter the better
- accuracy
- easy ready display of distance
- easily depressed button
- fast response time in delivering the measurement
- Targeting speed – rangefinder picks up the target quickly
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As an avid golfer and tennis player for most of his life, he enjoys researching the latest in golf and tennis technology as well as analyzing his own game. He has been a writer and reviewer for a dozen years… See more about S. Dee Davis |
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