WT3 Golf GPS Watch by Golf Buddy
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear • Reviews
Tags: Golf GPS
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear • Reviews
Tags: Golf GPS
Golf Buddy WT3 Golf GPS Watch
Golf Buddy is certainly one of the most respected names when it comes to the best golf GPS units. Now Golf Buddy makes a wearable golf GPS watch, the WT3. Let’s take a look at this $249 (retail) golf GPS watch.
Golf Buddy WT3 Golf GPS Watch Features
- Preloaded with over 36,000 courses worldwide, 40,000 capacity
- GPS tracking
- Automatic course and hole recognition
- Shot distance measurement
- Pin placement
- Dynamic green view
- Target/hazard information
- Digital scorecard
- Long lasting battery
- Water resistant
- Multi-lingual
On The Course
The convenience of always having your golf GPS with you in the form of a wearable watch is great. No digging in the bag. No going back to the bag or the golf cart.
The other great part of having it with you is tracking your every step, for those of you like me who love to walk the golf course. The GPS tracking will tell you how far you walked, how long you walked, and what your average speed was. Cram the essential functions of a FitBit into a golf GPS and there you go.
WT3 Screens – click to zoom
The yardages provided by this golf GPS, and that’s really what we’re most interested in, are fast and accurate. Unlike other golf GPS watches, this one will tell you distances to hazards, lakes, trees, bunkers and the like. The standard yardage mode gives you the middle of the green yardage in big bold letters with smaller yardages for front and back of the green.
For fine tuning approach shots, you can position the pin on the green for more accuracy, just like handheld golf GPS units.
This wristwatch golf GPS also serves as a basic timepiece. In time mode the watch shows the time, day and date. The battery life when simply running the watch in time mode is a full 50 days.
Critiques
My only beef with this golf GPS watch is the charging cable. Rather than a common mini-usb cable, the charging cable is proprietary. If you forget to grab the cable before your trip to Bandon Dunes or Scotland, you’re going to be walking off your yardages from sprinkler heads. You’re not going to find this cable at any store.
Colors
The Golf Buddy WT3 golf GPS watch comes in black or white.
Conclusion
Comfortable, convenient, great yardages, finetuning on the greens, and automatic course/hole recognition. The Golf Buddy WT3 golf GPS watch can be summed up in one word: SOLID.
Images
Here are more images of the Golf Buddy WT3.
This Week on Tour: 2014 Sony Open, Volvo Golf Champions
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Categories: European Tour • PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: Adam Scott • Charl Schwarzel • Jason Dufner • Jordan Spieth • Louis Oosthuizen • Matt Kuchar
Categories: European Tour • PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: Adam Scott • Charl Schwarzel • Jason Dufner • Jordan Spieth • Louis Oosthuizen • Matt Kuchar
PGA Tour
Sony Open in Hawaii
Dates: January 9-12
Venue: Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, Hawaii
Tournament Airtimes On Golf Channel (Eastern):
Thursday 7-10:30 p.m. (Live) / 11 p.m.-2:30 a.m. (Replay) / 3-6 a.m. (Replay)
Friday 7-10:30 p.m. (Live) / 11 p.m.-2:30 a.m. (Replay) / 3-6 a.m. (Replay)
Saturday 7-10:30 p.m. (Live) / 11 p.m.-2:30 a.m. (Replay) / 3-6 a.m. (Replay)
Sunday 7-10 p.m. (Live) / 11 p.m.-2 a.m. (Replay) / 3-6 a.m. (Replay)
Field
Notables: Adam Scott, Jason Dufner, Zach Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Matt Kuchar, Tommy Gainey, Harris English, Russell Henley, Vijay Singh, Bo Van Pelt, Stewart Cink, Guan Tianlang.
European Tour
Volvo Golf Champions
Dates: January 9-12
Venue: Durban Country Club, Durban, South Africa
Tournament Airtimes On Golf Channel (Eastern):
Thursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (Tape Delay)
Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (Tape Delay)
Saturday 7-11 a.m. (Tape Delay)
Sunday 7-11 a.m. (Tape Delay)
Field
Notables: Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Paul Casey, Thomas Bjorn, Matteo Manassero, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Darren Clarke, Branden Grace and Padraig Harrington.
Check Out Geoff Shackelford’s Olympic Golf Course Update
I poke a lot of fun at golf “journalists.” Being a blogger I can do that. After all, most of them think we bloggers don’t even know how to spell, and they’re not afraid to say it. One journalist/blogger I do read daily and respect highly is Geoff Shackelford. Geoff writes for his own blog along with being a journalist for Golf Digest. Geoff’s sarcastic style on his blog is right up my alley.
Today’s interesting piece from Geoff appears in the February Golf Digest. It is related to the new Olympic golf course in Rio being built by golf architect Gil Hanse. Topics covered include whether it will be done in time for the 2016 summer Olympics, and some nice surprises about the terrain that have come to light recently.
Photo: FootJoy Mystery Box #4 Includes More Product Innovation
Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
Categories: Golf Apparel • Golf Gear
Tags: FootJoy
Categories: Golf Apparel • Golf Gear
Tags: FootJoy
Remember back in the old MASH TV series how Radar O’Riley was shipping a jeep home, one part at a time? I’m doing something similar, putting together FootJoy golf shoes one part at a time. Each of the last four weeks a “mystery box” has arrived containing one small part of a new breakthrough shoe. Come to think of it, I’m assembling one shoe… Oh well.
FootJoy DNA FitBed
This week’s mystery box contained an “Xtra-Thick FTF FitBed,” pictured above. Yes that was going to be my guess for the name.
“FTF” is short for Fine Tuned Foam. This foam makes up the cushion bed inside the shoe. The bed provides stability but is still soft and comfortable.
FJ Trivia
Thanks to FJ for this trivia. FootJoy has been the most worn show on the PGA Tour since shoe counts were first taken in 1945.
Even more entertaining is that I now know that shoe counts on the PGA Tour began in 1945.
Related Links
Hooked On Golf Blog – Looking Ahead to 2014
A couple of days ago I posted the 2013 grade for HOG (Hooked On Golf Blog). I tried to take a hard look back at 2013 and analyze what was done well and what was not; what worked and what did not.
Today’s post is the first hard look forward at 2014 and perhaps beyond. This is the 9th year HOG has been operating. I was somewhat of a pioneer in the golf blog world nine years ago. I’m looking to make some changes for 2014 which are still in that pioneering spirit. How does one do that with a golf blog that has been around so long and produced content in so many different forms?
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