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October 12, 2009
A Rangefinder That Will Break Your Will

"Don't need no rangefinder!"

Uh-uh. We used to think that. Why? Well, we're a pretty keen judge of distances and which club to pull. So rangefinders were superfluous, less for us pure golfers and more for flailing futzers and techno-geeks.

And then we picked up the Bushnell TOUR V2 Slope Edition. Yeah, the rangefinder's cool and all, confirming distances that we could figure out from course markers and experience. It also has 5x magnification and can provide distances from 5 to 1000 yards with an impressive one-yard accuracy.

But the feature that broke our will to bypass the rangerfinder market is a built-in "accelerometer-based inclinometer." It displays the exact slope angle, whether the pin is on a hill or in a gulch. It then uses "internal algorithmic formulas" to compute what distance the sloped shot is playing (see video of how this feature works).

EXAMPLE: Say the true distance to the pin is 162 yards, which is normally a 6 iron for you. But with an uphill slope of +4 degrees, according to the TOUR V2 Slope Edition, the compensated range is 173 yards—meaning you should hit a 5 iron.

Legal to use under USGA rules?

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The Leupold GX®-II rangefinder.

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