Best golf GPS Strategies For Beginners

The advent of wearable’s and function-optimized gadgets have evidently made things easier in many fields. Golf has not been left behind. Long gone are the days when a caddie’s guesstimation was the sole factor in a golfer making decisions. Golf GPS systems have been on the rise recently, and are becoming increasingly smarter.

Golf GPS can come as an app for your smartphone or a full GPS golf device, which can either be the size of a smartphone handheld or a wearable. Golf GPS devices use satellite technology to assess all critical information of the course you are playing in so that you know how to best to play your best shot. For you to get all that better, you need to use the GPS devices effectively. Here are some golf GPS strategies that you can and should use to lower your score.

Focus on The Green

While the GPS gives yardages for front, center, and back of the green, you ideally want to give yourself a higher margin of error. As beginners, generally have not quite perfected their shots and mastered their clubs, the front and back yardages are not all that important. The best thing to do is use only the center yardage and target that alone. That way, even a mishit in any direction will potentially still see you in the green. The last thing you want is to end up in the rough!

Personal Distances

Before heading out to competitions, we recommend doing some serious practice. Even as a beginner, hit the golf course a lot of times and practice. What you should do is hit a shot a couple of times with each of your clubs. Most golf GPS devices have a Point-To-Point) technology and a feature that can help you record your shots. Doing this and finding the average will give you a fair indication of how far you hit with each club. Finding your distances will go a long way in lowering your score as you will have a better idea of which club to use where.

Revaluate your Distances Regularly

As natural improvement comes over time, you expect that your distance ranges will change too. Maybe a change in your lean or stroke technique has resulted in either a positive or negative distance change. You should frequently evaluate and reevaluate your distances in the practice ground, maybe quarterly, as this will play a part in your choice of clubs and equipment changes.

Recovery Shots

The occasional wayward ball that ends up in the trees can be really annoying. If you have never experienced this in real life maybe you should just hit your ball towards the trees one time. Actually, you should, so that you know how to get out of the pickle. Here is where the PTP technology comes in handy. Use it and check the best chip out yardage that will result in the best position for you to make an approach shot.

Become a Statistician

Wait, what? Relax, all you need to do is collect the print out the statistics your GPS device has been collecting. Some of these stats are club distance, fairways hit, greens in regulation and putts per hole. It is completely vital for any golfer who wants to up their game to continuously check their statistics and determine trends. Also, you can pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses from this and know what to spend more time practicing on.

Update Frequently

Course mappings are reviewed frequently and updated to cater for more courses. You should update your golf GPS device frequently in order to stay current. Most updates can be done via the net or by plugging into a computer.

Shot Usage via PTP

Another way that you can decide which clubs to use and when can be through the PTP technology. You can check the yardage for hitting a shot with any club, and since you already know your distances, you can map out the course through clubs and distances.

Make A Plan and Use it

You need to become a stickler for plans and adhering to them. Higher end golf GPS devices have interactive graphical maps with all the course’s topographical features. Some even have a 3D map. Generally, you can make a plan of how best to play the course without having been there before. This will save you time and prepare you mentally for the challenge.

Hopefully using these strategies will make you a better golfer and as a parting short, if your opponent has trouble remembering whether he shot a six or a seven, it means he probably shot an eight.