Bushnell Yardage Pro Tour Laser Rangefinder

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Manufacturer: Bushnell

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For the passionate few who demand perfection at every teebox, fairway or bunker, there’s the Bushnell Yardage Pro Golf models. Reducing strokes every round played, with accuracy to +/- 1 yard from 10 to 1, 000 yards away, the guesswork of club selection is eliminated. It’s so effective at improving your game you may find yourself golfing alone.

Bushnell Yardage Pro Tour Laser Rangefinder Features:

Using advanced digital technology, Yardage Pro takes the guesswork out of measuring distances
Delivers superb range performance to targets with +/- 1 Yard accuracy
Reflective Range Performance = 700 Yards
Determine Tree distance within 570 yards
Weighs less than 7 ounces

Bushnell Yardage Pro Tour Laser Rangefinder Reviews

Not Up To Par!
I have used a Bushnell Yardage Pro400 Laser Rangefinder since June, 1997. This summer it went belly-up, so I purchased the Bushnell Yardage Pro Tour (#200002), a much smaller instrument than the Pro400, which was like a binocular. However, with our new reflector flagsticks, I could read beyond 400 yards by merely pointing toward the green, without actually seeing the flag. It worked great. The Yardage Pro Tour, while small and convenient, is no where near as accurate or sensitive as the Pro400. It’s hard to hold steady and must be exactly on the reflector flagstick to get a reading. It has a special feature, which if you depress the button for more than 3 seconds, it starts scanning (It usually takes longer than 3 seconds to get any reading). With a jiggling hand, the instrument flashes various yardage numbers faster than one can read them of whatever the instrument is scanning at that instant. Even with the flagstick laser reflectors, it’s very difficult to get a reading. It’s almost impossible to read the flag from beyond 150 yards. Certainly, it can’t compare with the old Pro400. I sent the Pro400 to Bushnell for a repair, but they have no parts for it. They did offer to sell me a Yardage Pro Trophy (#202018), a lesser model than the Yardage Pro Tour, for $150. I can’t honestly recommend the Yardage Pro Tour. If I had it to do over, I’d probably buy the Elite 1500, a larger, more expensive instrument reminiscent of the Pro400.

What did I do before
I don’t know how I played golf before I bought this. What was I thinking??? No more adding or subtracting or just plain guessing. By the time the group in front has walked off the green, I have the exact yardage to pin, have the right iron in my hand and ready to fire. Unfortunately, the laser range finder doesn’t help you hit greens any better, but I am pin high every time! It is so much fun!

Wouldn’t Work for Me
I had high expectations when purchasing a laser range finder for use on the golf course. After a lot of research, I settled on the Pro Tour Laser.

As previous reviewers have stated, this unit is very hard to stabilize. I have a feeling this is true of all lasers.

Even with supporting both elbows on the hood of a car I found this unit very hard to find yardages for objects beyond 150 yards paricularly when bright sunlight is present.

On the golf course, finding the flag and obtaining a yardage at longer yardages is almost impossible if there are objects behind the flag such as trees or landscaping.

This unit has been returned and I have gone to a standard handheld GPS instead. Once the center of the green is initially saved as a waypoint, this is a very reliable and quick method to get a yardage, you just have to convert feet or 1/100’s of a mile into yards. I do this with a chart taped on the back of the GPS. Accuracy is about 2-4 yards which is good enough for anyone but a vey low handicapper.

I am staying away from a laser finder until golf courses uniformly put reflectors on their poles.

Great for golf
I just purchased this unit and found it to be extremely useful on the course. I have “shaky” hands and from a distance it’s difficult to view the flag distance but I’ve found that if I use the scan mode and just scan the area of the flag and I view the flag for a second it does give the distance which is all I need. For other items like bunkers, trees and edges of water, it’s a breeze. It’s light and easy to use.

great distance control
Works better than I could have hoped. I have used it for about a month and it is very simple to execute — but you have to be able to hold somewhat steady which is not a problem for me. If you are someone who has the shakes — may be a problem.

I have compared the accuracy to gps devices with guys playing with me. This is better since it gives you the actual yardage to the pin. Also, you can get yardage to another golfer in the field, and yardage to any object, bunker, tree etc., which the gps can’t.

A lot of courses are not marked correctly, and, of course, yardage changes depending on how far off to the side of the fairway — or even out of the fairway — you are. This is where it is especially nice. There are times when without this device you are just flat out guessing.

This is an awesome piece of technology. It was well worth the price for me.

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