GPS & Rangefinder Eliminations/Recommendations

**goonie** · 17th May 2014 11:30 AM

Checked heaps of places for a CR2 battery like Dicksmith, BigW, Woolies, Officeworks and several Chemists with no luck, ended up having to go to Jaycar.

**mrbluu** · 17th May 2014 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by goonie

Checked heaps of places for a CR2 battery like Dicksmith, BigW, Woolies, Officeworks and several Chemists with no luck, ended up having to go to Jaycar.

EBay is your best bet. There is a place I got them from the UK for about $5 landed. I also posted some rechargeable a fee posts back.

**Johnny Canuck** · 17th May 2014 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by goonie

Checked heaps of places for a CR2 battery like Dicksmith, BigW, Woolies, Officeworks and several Chemists with no luck, ended up having to go to Jaycar.

Total cost of battery now $17.95 with petrol factored in.

**Yossarian** · 17th May 2014 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by mrbluu

EBay is your best bet. There is a place I got them from the UK for about $5 landed. I also posted some rechargeable a fee posts back.

Jaycar had them for 4.95. A battery is a battery is a battery.

**goonie** · 17th May 2014 11:53 AM

Only $10 for 2 batteries and a slight detour on the way home from work yesterday, plus a few free phone calls and a bit of walking around the city.

**Johnny Canuck** · 17th May 2014 11:56 AM

A hell of a lot of work for a $5 battery.

I imagine a car battery is a month long project?

**Johnny Canuck** · 17th May 2014 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by mrbluu

My battery was lasting about 4-6months, but i laser everything including chips.

Hello Tourfit.

**Lagerlover** · 17th May 2014 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by Johnny Canuck

A hell of a lot of work for a $5 battery. I imagine a car battery is a month long project?

Haha

**backintheswing** · 17th May 2014 01:36 PM

Battery World have them for about $5.

**KristianJ** · 17th May 2014 01:40 PM

I grabbed a couple from Jaycar on Thur night on my way home from work. $9.90 seems just fine by me.

**Lagerlover** · 17th May 2014 01:43 PM

Free parking?

**goonie** · 17th May 2014 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Johnny Canuck

A hell of a lot of work for a $5 battery.

I imagine a car battery is a month long project?

Well I did want to use keep using my rangefinder, and I needed it for this weekend.

The last car battery was about 20mins actually, battery died at the shops, walked 50m to Kmart, grabbed a battery and swapped it out in the car park.

So if you have troubles finding something do you just call it quits?

**WBennett** · 17th May 2014 07:06 PM

Big W had them on line for $3 each. I bought three. Postage was $9
They arrived the next day.

**Yossarian** · 17th May 2014 11:19 PM

Originally Posted by goonie

Well I did want to use keep using my rangefinder, and I needed it for this weekend.

The last car battery was about 20mins actually, battery died at the shops, walked 50m to Kmart, grabbed a battery and swapped it out in the car park.

So if you have troubles finding something do you just call it quits?

Why didn't you just go straight to jaycar?

**magman** · 18th May 2014 12:24 AM

I havn't read all the posts on this thread, but back to the topic tittle, why don't people just use the 150m markers, or the 100 m markers. If you stuck halfway, use 125m's, or estimate it from there. The most you will be out is 10m's unless your guide dog can't do sign language. If you playing from under 100m's, work it out as a percentage from where your ball is. If you can see the the 150m marker in the distance, use your 3 wood.

**mrbluu** · 18th May 2014 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by magman

I havn't read all the posts on this thread, but back to the topic tittle, why don't people just use the 150m markers, or the 100 m markers. If you stuck halfway, use 125m's, or estimate it from there. The most you will be out is 10m's unless your guide dog can't do sign language. If you playing from under 100m's, work it out as a percentage from where your ball is. If you can see the the 150m marker in the distance, use your 3 wood.

I can't say for everyone, but I got shit depth perception. I can guess or work out a distance but I feel more comfortable know the exact distance I have to hit it.

**Collis** · 18th May 2014 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by magman

I havn't read all the posts on this thread, but back to the topic tittle, why don't people just use the 150m markers, or the 100 m markers. If you stuck halfway, use 125m's, or estimate it from there. The most you will be out is 10m's unless your guide dog can't do sign language. If you playing from under 100m's, work it out as a percentage from where your ball is. If you can see the the 150m marker in the distance, use your 3 wood.

I do not want 10 metre putts all the time hence the rangefinder.

**WBennett** · 18th May 2014 07:02 AM

A 150m marker doesn't give me distance to carry a hazard. And on a course with 50m long or wide greens its a three club difference front to back and side to side depending on the angle in.

**Daves** · 18th May 2014 07:16 AM

Not to mention that plenty of 150 and 100m markers aren't accurate in my experience, ditto on plenty of sprinkler head distances as well. Then you have the holes where the hole is blind from the fairway. And we have only talked approach shots so far. Show me how you work out distance to that run out hazard?, and where does that fairway end on that short dogleg? How far to carry that hazard?, or what is the lay up distance short of it? Then you have the daily variations on a tight driving hole, tees forward and following wind can be several clubs different to tees back and into the teeth.

But the biggest and best benefit imo, is there is no doubt about the club in your hand being the right one for the shot. That alone is worth the price of admission.

**Dotty** · 18th May 2014 07:31 AM

Decide which club and line to take from the tee, depending distances to front of hazards and carry distances (for strong hitters or me on par 3s).

**goonie** · 18th May 2014 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by Yossarian

Why didn't you just go straight to jaycar?

I normally only drive into work on a Friday and could only get to Jaycar if I was driving home, not via my Bus, so I went for a walk one lunch time to check out a few nearby shops and chemists as suggested in a few threads, and made a few calls. Really not a big deal, or that much time spent, I just wanted to make sure I got a battery for the masters game today as I haven't played the course and don't have a map for my GPS.

**WBennett** · 18th May 2014 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by Dotty

Decide which club and line to take from the tee, depending distances to front of hazards and carry distances (for strong hitters or me on par 3s).

Dotty - its easy to work out your yardages. If its 150, its driver. Each club is a 10m increment down after that, so your full sand wedge goes 30.

**KristianJ** · 18th May 2014 08:12 AM

Also useful to check how far the group in front are from the tee, so you don't have to say "I think they're far enough" and find you were wrong...

**backintheswing** · 18th May 2014 08:23 AM

I got a shock when I played with Bluu, and he was using his laser on 10m chips.

**sms316** · 18th May 2014 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by backintheswing

I got a shock when I played with Bluu, and he was using his laser on 10m chips.

#overkill #timewaster #losttheplot

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