 Well, I wish there could be, oh, text, oh, it's from Garmin. Are you up for a challenge, meters at the first tee at Conway Golf Club? Oh, hello, that's a text. Yeah, it's Garmin. Sorry, we text the wrong number. Are you having a laugh? Well, it's okay, yes, so joking aside, we are going to be looking at a Garmin product, but we're also going to be looking at something from Sky Carry and Bushnell. And the idea is to look at three different types of range finder GPS systems and find out which I think is best suited to average golfers. It's fair to say that pretty much all golfers now with a very high percentage are carrying one of these types of devices. It's very rare that you see somebody getting to a 150 marker, 200 marker, and striding out the yardage. We don't see that anymore, which is a bit of a shame in some ways. But anyway, where we're at right now, technology is superb. And these are three items that are very much sit at the top of the tree. The idea is not to review each of these, it's to compare the types of. But for reference, I've got the Bushnell Pro XE. That is the all singing and all dancing in terms of range finder. That's incredible what that thing does. And I'll mention what it does as we go along. I've got the Sky Carry SX500 and I've got the Garmin approach S40 Watch. Three different devices, they each do different things, ultimately gives the yardage to where we want to go. But I'm going to test out here on the course and like I say, see which is best suited to an average golfer. The first thing we will look at is ease of use and perhaps how that will relate to speed of play. So first of all, a Bushnell, they come with a fancy pouch that can be attached to the bag. I must admit, I use Bushnell at the moment, so mine is just in the front pocket in case of rooting round for it in the bag. So you've got your Bushnell, you've then got to spend a little bit of time searching out for the target and back into the little pouch or bag wherever you decide to keep it. The SX500 again, depending on where you want to keep it, I keep it in the front pocket. Point to mention on this, it's always on this machine throughout the round. So as soon as you pick it up and out the bag, you're immediately accessing data. And the one that sort of is the easiest in terms of use because it is just a quick flick of the wrist. Look at the watch and you are immediately accessing the data that you want. In terms of green data, that is, you might want to move things round a little bit in terms of looking for hazards and such like. But in terms of accessing speed of play, then the watch in that case is a clear winner. So next thing I want to talk about is ease of use. And this could apply to, without want to be disrespectful, there's things like sort of how good your eyesight is in terms of visibility and how good the screens are. And using a bushel is the first one. Obviously, you've got to take a look through the sort of binocular type. You've got to zap onto a target. It does alert you as soon as you're fixed onto that target, but the number display in there is relatively small. So again, I would think for the majority of people, that's not an issue, but for some people, that may be struggling in that department, that's one thing that might be worth considering. The display on the SX500, I mentioned when I did the review, is phenomenal. I just had a panic there. I hadn't pressed my audio on. Yeah, it's fantastic. The display is superb. It's a five-inch screen. It's full colour. You can zoom into that if you're struggling in terms of, like I said, in terms of your eyesight or whatever, but I wouldn't think you'd need to. The numbers are very bold and visible. With the watch, visibility-wise, it's very, very good. It's on the same lines as the SX500. Very clear, big and bold numbers, front, middle and back again in terms of greens. It becomes a little bit more fiddly in terms of use when you want to move things around a bit, in terms of you can move pin positions, as you can with the SX500, to something that you can see out there on the green. I would say for ease of use, SX500 wins by an absolute country mile, to be honest with you. It's one of the big, big key factors that this thing does incredibly well. I can't believe how nice it is today, Darren at Conway. There's one feature we've got to look at with the Bushnell, and this incredibly clever Bushnell. This is a Pro Xe, and it's got some elements in there that you want to find in the other two devices. I'm going to mention it very briefly. When I look at this flag here as a prime example, yardage to the flag is 51 degrees, but what this thing does unbelievably is it makes allowance for both temperature and for slope, so where we're playing from. It makes a 2% adjustment it's saying on that screen when I look at it now, so 51 to the flag. In today's temperatures, it's playing 53. That's incredibly accurate information, and I think it sort of tells a tale about haps who that feature at least is aimed at, and it's probably not me. One other thing to consider with the watch in particular is it's quite a decent looking piece of kit, and obviously it doubles up as more than just a piece of equipment that you can use on a golf course, so I think you've also got to consider, and a bonus, it's a decent looking watch on the wrist to be fair. Now it doesn't happen too often on a Lynx course, and that being that you can't see the flag, because generally when you're laid out in front of you, you don't get many trees on Lynx courses, but we've got a situation here at Conway where there's some humps and bumps there and over the top, about 108 yards away, there is a green. And I say that because I know where it is and I know the centre of the green from the watch and I can get it from the sky caddy, but I can't get that from the bushtun. That's one of the downers of a range finder, and as I walk sort of 60, 70 yards to my right, and I can get an angle in there to the flag, then I've got no idea as to where I'm playing. So I think it's probably more apparent on a woodland course on treeed areas where you're just literally playing some blind shots and if you can't get that zapped into a flag, then you've got a bit of a problem. And like I said, a real bonus in terms of the watch. The interesting thing, a watch and handheld device, the interesting thing for me, and I've not tried it on the SX500, is the way it automatically finds the hole. One of the issues that used to be was that if you'd, I've just chopped and changed a little bit across this golf course and I've just arrived on the ninth, and the watch automatically recognised that I was playing down nine and changed the position accordingly. So a clever little bit on the watch there and I've got a feeling that would be the same on the SX500. Right, we're losing a bit of light, so I think it's time to draw this one to a close in a very brief summary. I think almost the three devices or maybe two out of three are aimed at average golfers and we've got the pro range finder aimed at the better player. I think it's as simple as that, the more accurate player, let's say. And for me, how precise that thing is in terms of that particular model is incredible. To make allowances for temperature and also for slope, but again can you use them in competition golf? No, so slightly again debatable on that one. But if you're a real serious player and every yard counts, then yes by all means go to them and I think a range finder in general which I play is it over-egging it a little bit in terms of the accuracy? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, but for me ease of use, the display far more usable. I think front, middle and back is really again for average golfers more than enough in terms of information. How many times should we just go for middle of the green? I bet if we took that yardage all the time instead of trying to pin-seek when we shouldn't I think that's much more relevant information that's applicable to us. The fact that you can then find yardages to all kinds of bunkers, trees and all the rest of it in and around the course. I suppose you can do that to a degree with a bushel, but the fact it's laid out in front of you, the hole, the shape of the hole is laid out in front of you on the SX500. I think for me if I was making a choice and one more thing I see, the thing that I didn't think I would like is that I don't play golf in a watch and I literally forgot that thing was on. It's very very comfortable, it's very very light so it didn't impede me whatsoever in terms of playing golf in it. For me it's definitely without doubt the watch or the SX500 and I think if I was making a choice do you know what, I'm stuck on that one to be honest I was going to say the SX500 but I really like the watch and I write the fact that it is a watch as well and it gives me more than enough I think in terms of information, but the point is what's best for the average golfer? I would say one of those two devices and for the better player it's maybe the bushel. I made heavy weather of that, didn't I? Flipping, it was a bit of a long drawn out conclusion, I'm out of breath anyway, I'm done I'll see you later, happy Christmas