GolfBlogger’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide: Gadgets
Here are a few personally tested gift suggestions for the golfer in your life.
Garmin Approach R10
Garmin R10 Launch Monitor
Grade: A+
Teacher’s Comments: A marvelous piece of golf tech. Highly recommended.
GolfBlogger’s Garmin Approach R10 Review.
The Garmin Approach R10 is a small, reasonably-priced launch monitor that uses a phone app to track a dozen key metrics, including backspin, sidespin, face to path, launch direction, club path, club face deviation, attack angle, launch angle, total distance, carry distance and deviation.
The R10 is quite clever and easy to use.
Garmin Approach G12
Garmin Approach G12 GPS
Grade: A
Teacher’s Comments: A really well-thought-out golf GPS device.
Read the complete Garmin Approach G12 Review
Very reasonably priced at around $120, the Garmin Approach G12 offers distance to the front middle and back of greens, as well as to hazards. It also will keep score, track your distance walked and shot distance.
I’ve got this with me on every round on my home course (Washtenaw Golf Club), where I need a quick read more than I need the sort of detailed mapping I’d get from a phone app.
I haven’t written a full review yet, but I have enjoyed using the Kam Kaddie Motorized Golf Cart over the past several weeks.
Kam Kaddie Manufacturer’s site.
The electric three-wheeled cart has a remote for sending the cart forward in a straight line, but is steered more like a Sun Mountain Speed Cart. You hold on to the handle, and while the motor is driving it forward, you nudge it in the direction you want the car to go.
In this sense, it’s more of a powered assist cart than a remote one. But it still makes walking much easier. It also seems very reasonably priced compared to other powered trolleys.
Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor
Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor
Grade: A+
Teacher’s Comments: Makes practice meaningful. Easy to use.
Manufacturers’ Site: Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor
Buy Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor on Amazon
Launcyh Monitors have come a long way in a short time. What once was restricted to high end ranges and teachers now is available to anyone with a smart phone.
The Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor can give you all the data you need to make practice meaningful and improvement possible.
Read GolfBlogger’s Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor Review
