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Originally Posted by MinusEV
This isn't helpful at all - I realize this and I'm sorry, but I just don't understand why someone buys golf watches instead of just getting a range finder?
Range finders gets you the distance to anything you're looking at in seconds and it does not depend on the course you're at being mapped or anything. It just works. Everywhere.
Why are 'golf watches' even a thing?
I agree with everything you said, but for me the speed and convenience with which I can check the watch on my wrist was the priority. I don't feel like I'm at the level where I would want to take a range finder off of my bag and look through it when the watch is much quicker. I can add or subtract yards based on pin placement, and for now that it is good enough, especially considering that curiosity about the distance is just as compelling as strategic considerations.
However, I can't check distances to various landmarks on the fairway or in the front of the green, which is a minus for sure, although I could get a rangefinder as well for those instances. Furthermore, I only recently started playing on courses, and only on non-executive courses this past month, so initially, checking landmarks was of much less significance on the short courses.
But I almost forgot, what I also really like about the watch is the ability to record my score on it. I enjoy that feature perhaps even more than the distance measurement and would probably keep wearing it anyway if I were to get a rangefinder, which I probably eventually will.
But for now the ultimate convenience of just looking down at my wrist has been compromised by the watch's obnoxious tendency to switch of the main screen for no apparent reason.