Author name: Stan Wade

A Garmin Approach watch that dies on the 14th hole is more than an annoyance. You lose your yardages, your

Redtiger has become one of my go-to brands when golfers ask me for a slope rangefinder that performs like a

Cart-path-only days used to mean guessing, walking back and forth, or holding up the group. Triangulation changes that. You range

Elevation changes cost golfers more strokes than most of us admit. A 150-yard approach to an elevated green can play

Slope compensation tells you how far a shot actually plays uphill or downhill. A magnet keeps the rangefinder on the

Squinting through a tiny eyepiece works fine until your playing partner asks, “What did you get?” and you have to

Black LCD numbers are easy to lose against a dark tree line or a shaded green, and that is when

A black LCD reading is easy to see at noon and almost impossible to read at dawn, when a buck

Once you have used a magnetic rangefinder, going back to a pouch feels like a hassle. Over the past few

Bluetooth has changed what a rangefinder can do. Hunters can load a ballistic profile from a phone app, and golfers

A standard rangefinder only measures the straight line from you to the target. On a steep hillside, from a tree

In disc golf, guessing a distance wrong by 30 feet can decide whether you choose a putter or a midrange,

A daytime rangefinder stops being useful once the light fades, which is often when animals start moving. To find out

A distance reading only solves part of a long shot. You also need to know where the bullet will land

Most golf balls have between 300 and 500 dimples, and without them, a well-struck drive would travel only about half