Bushnell NEO Ghost Pocket Golf GPS Review

Bushnell NEO Golf GPS

I certainly can’t blame my golf accessories if I miss a green or a target! When I’ve got the Bushnell NEO Ghost pocket golf GPS on my person I have a light and easy to read yardage. Let’s take a look at the NEO Ghost in detail.

Features

Preloaded with 33,000+ courses
14 hour battery life. Number of holes or rounds obviously depends on pace of play.
Auto course recognition
Auto hole advance
Clear and large yardage numbers, easy to read
Up to four hazard distances per hole
Easy-to-use interface
Multi-function clip and USB charging cable included (clip to belt or golf bag)
Super light
Available colors: black, charcoal, green, white

On The Course

First things first. To get the NEO Ghost ready for a round it needs to be charged. Unlike many golf GPS units, the NEO Ghost has a standard micro USB port. It can be charged with a regular micro USB cable one might use for a smartphone or other USB peripherals. Since it has no proprietary bizarre cable to charge it, you won’t end up on your first trip to Bandon Dunes realizing you can’t use your GPS because you forgot the funky charger. Rant over…

A full charge lasts forever, or up to 14 hours. I say forever because I can go several rounds before having to charge the unit. Other GPS units I’ve reviewed barely last more than one round.

The size and ease of use of the NEO Ghost is a big selling point. The soft edges and rounded corners slide in and out of my pocket easily. Nothing sharp to bug me when the unit is in my pocket. It is so light that I can hardly tell it is on my person.

Invaluable and accurate golf data in the palm of my hand!

Looking at the display is refreshing. It is super simple with big clear yardages. The big number is the center of the green. The smaller numbers represent yardages to the front and back of the green. The unit will also provide crucial information regarding hazard yardages, like greenside bunkers. It is always great to know the exact yardage to “cover” a bunker.

The unit powers up quickly and automatically knows the course I’m playing. With 33,000 courses it is unlikely a user will run across a course which is not in the unit.

Conclusion

Ranging from $99 to $129, the NEO Ghost golf GPS by Bushnell is a very affordable and easy to use golf measuring device. It delivers solid data, is sharp looking, light, charges easily, and lasts a long time. Fantastic.

The NEO Ghost would make a great golf gift for Father’s Day, Christmas, Birthdays and more.

You Can Buy Tiger Woods’s Exact Driver, But Should You?

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, June 1st, 2015
Categories: Boneheads • Golf • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Tiger Woods
Tags: Nike Golf • Tiger Woods

Nike Golf TW Vapor Speed Driver – click to view larger version

Who do you trust more, fish oil salesmen, politicians, or golf marketing? These “what’s in the bag?” articles and limited edition clubs setup like the pros are so funny to me. Now you can buy a club custom fit to someone else, who has swing characteristics completely unlike yours!

The latest is a promotion by Nike Golf, where you can buy the exact driver Tiger Woods is using. The Nike TW Vapor Speed is available for purchase today (June 1, 2015) and has the exact same specs as Tiger’s gamer driver. What bonehead would want this club, other than perhaps a collector? According to other marketing themes we as golfers should be getting a custom fit driver for our swings, right? So buying Tiger’s driver would be idiotic to say the least, unless of course we have the exact same build, height, weight, swing speed, technique, swing plane, takeaway, release, tempo, launch angle, grip, head dip…. I could go on forever.

Before you make that big decision to buy a club nobody in the world could probably hit, take a look at some of these numbers below. Tiger hasn’t played enough holes this season to qualify for the Tour stats apparently, since he isn’t even on the driving statistics listings on the Tour site for 2015. I’ve done some analysis for you.

Driving Distance: Tiger’s average driving distance right now is 297.1. That would be good enough for 26th place at this point on Tour.

Driving Accuracy: Tiger’s driving accuracy is 50.71%. That would put him at 199th on the PGA Tour in 2015.

Tiger has no ranking for total driving and it is not possible for me to calculate it. By my guesses, it would be near or at the bottom of the entire PGA Tour’s list.

Conclusion

If you love Tiger Woods and have $399 to spend for a driver you probably can’t hit, this one is for you.

Father’s Day Golf Gift Guide: Threads

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, May 29th, 2015
Categories: Golf • Golf Apparel • Golf Gear
Tags: Beltology • Christmas Golf Gift • Dunning Golf • Father's Day • Father's Day Golf Gift • FootJoy • Golf Apparel • Holiday Golf Gift • Kentwool • Tattoo Golf

Father’s Day is coming up quickly. It’s time to write up a golf apparel script for dad. Below is my list of Father’s Day apparel suggestions which are guaranteed to make pops the hippest, sharpest dressed golfer in his group. Click the links within the text to go to the original golf blog post.

Golf Belt

Beltology Silver Spoon Belt

Don’t let dad get caught with his pants down. Get him a nice golf belt from Beltology.

Golf Shirt

Review: Dunning Solid Mesh Contrast Collar Signal Polo

Dunning is one of the best golf apparel brands available. Want to class it up for dad? Get him a Dunning polo like this incredible piece.

Golf Shorts

Tattoo Golf Shorts

Classy, comfortable, stylish shorts which come with a tiny edge in the form of the classic skull and golf club bones logo. Welcome to Tattoo Golf. Golf shorts unlike any other.

Hybrid Golf/Street Shoes

FootJoy City Shoes

These hybrid golf shoes are good looking enough to wear to a wedding or out on the town, yet still perform great on the golf course. Dad will dig ’em.

Outer Top Layer

Dunning Stretch Thermal Striped 1/4 Zip

Dunning’s golf apparel products are SO good I couldn’t resist putting another on this Father’s Day gift guide. When it is a little too chilly to roll with just a golf polo, this Dunning 1/4 Zip Thermal will take the edge off the cold but not the golf swing.

Socks

Kentwool Graduate Compression Sock Review

Kentwool is hands down the best golf sock maker in our solar system and perhaps beyond. I haven’t received any sock samples from outside our solar system, so I can’t be 100% sure though.

First Look: Bushnell TourX Golf Laser Rangefinder

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, May 28th, 2015
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear
Tags: Bushnell Golf • Golf Laser Range Finder

Father’s Day alert…

I just got in the Bushnell TourX laser rangefinder for review and logged my first round of testing with it yesterday. This is a super top of the line unit (yes, such genius writing).

Bushnell TourX Golf Laser Rangefinder

During today’s round I was amazed at how quickly this golf laser locked onto the pin. I’m talking fractions of a second. When it locks, the unit vibrates.

I was also amazed at how crystal clear the display is, along with the yardage data shown.

I will need to log more rounds before my review and there’s one major drawback to this unit to discuss. Stay tuned for the full HOG Bushnell TourX review soon.

Salt Lake City Golf Division is Giving the Shaft to Bonneville Golf Course Patrons

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
Categories: Boneheads • Golf • Golf Courses • Miscellaneous

Bonneville Golf Course

I’ve never written a “letter to the editor” of a local paper. Tonight will be the first, a submission to the Salt Lake Tribune. Below is my take, and below that the text which will be a shorter version for the letter.

If you paid for a six pack of your favorite beverage and only received five cans, would you be a satisfied customer?

If you went to the movies and the movie theater cut out 15 minutes of the movie, would you be a satisfied customer?

If you paid for a 60 minute massage and the masseuse cut it off at 49 minutes, would you be a satisfied customer?

Salt Lake City Golf Division is doing this same thing to patrons of Bonneville Golf Course. We patrons are paying full retail for 18 full holes of golf, but not getting what we paid for. The course is in the midst of an install of an automatic sprinkling system which has been decades overdue. That’s great. While the course is torn up the players are asked to skip large portions of the course, like the 500 yard par-5 first hole today. In exchange for skipping those parts of the course a temporary hole is setup somewhere else. This temporary hole is obviously a pale excuse for Salt Lake City Golf Division to charge full price since the player is playing 18 holes.

In the spirit of the game it would be good customer service to offer a discount, a free bucket of range balls, or some kind of bounceback rate due to the conditions. Instead, Salt Lake City expects golfers to pay full rack rate, and that’s not sitting well with many. Trust me on that one.

When I mentioned the lack of a discount to the staff in the pro shop (who will remain unnamed to protect their anonymity) they informed me that the asked the city about it. No dice.

When discussing this lack of consideration for the players, one player on the course today told me “they’re doing it because they can.” That is true. While I could choose to go elsewhere, I’m still patronizing Bonneville. I’ve been playing there for decades. But I can’t help these feelings of resentment which have been building over the last several full retail rounds I’ve paid for, getting only 17 holes of golf.

Other courses in this area are very considerate of their players during adverse course conditions. River Oaks posts a discount for roughly one month when they aerate their greens. That’s a course who cares about their customers. Apparently that’s not the case with Salt Lake City Golf Division.

The Letter To The Editor (shorter version in hopes they run it)

If you paid for a six pack of your favorite beverage and only received five cans, would you be a satisfied customer?

As a patron of Bonneville Golf Course for decades–who has paid tens of thousands of dollars in green fees in my lifetime–I can’t help feeling like I’m getting the shaft when paying full retail for a course that is torn up and offering essentially 17 holes worth of golf.

Salt Lake City Golf Division should offer a discount, a free bucket of balls, or a bounceback rate to show their customers that they appreciate their business during installation of their new sprinkler system. Granted the sprinkler system is much needed and decades overdue, but charging full retail for an incomplete product is a shank out of bounds and not in the spirit of the game.

End of rant.

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