How to use a GPS to Improve Your Golf Handicap

I honestly believe if we took three golfers who play off handicaps of 3, 13 & 23 that have never used a Golf GPS before and gave them a GPS to use, all three would improve and be playing off lower handicaps in a short space of time.
Golfers should not under estimate how important it is to have a yardage to the front, middle and back if you really want to lower your scores and improve your golf handicap. Whatever part of the course, and whichever course you are playing on, knowing these distances is the key to lower handicaps and improving your golf.
This is how the best players in the world get round except that instead of a GPS unit they have a caddie that has a yardage book that has been produced by measuring the course using a piece of GPS measuring kit.
One of the objections I get from club golfers when out demoing the Shotmiser Golf GPS is “You still have to be able to hit the shot“ which of course is true and you will not always hit the perfect shot as neither will the best golfers in the world but hitting the correct club for that distance will give you many more opportunities in a round of golf than you would ever have had before,
The Shotmiser GPS has a “Practice Feature” which allows you to hit shots and measure how far you actually hit your clubs, so many club golfers would be surprised how many times they are say 10-15 yards usually less than they thought they hit it which isn`t a disaster as long as you know your distances, the key would be to go through your full set of clubs hitting 10-15 balls with each club, walk to the spread of balls and pick out the 5 closest together and using the measuring facility on your Shotmiser track them 5 shots which will then give you an average for that club, repeat this with all your clubs and list the average distances. See table below for an example of my yardages.
I cannot begin to tell you at whatever level of golf you play at how powerful this information is, for instance you are stood at spot on the golf course and your Shotmiser is giving you a yardage of 145 to the middle of the green which is completely taking the guess work out of the equation as you now know from your practice sessions which club will give the best chance of getting it close to the flag.
The other major benefit of using a GPS that has point to point technology like the Shotmiser range is “lay-ups” this again is a huge part of the professional game and if implemented properly would benefit and improve any amateur’s game.
This is more commonly known as “Course Management” and playing your way around a golf course, if you were in the trees and had a water hazard in front of the green and couldn`t make it over it you should lay-up, the key is to leave yourself your preferred yardage for your next shot, at this point most club golfers would walk up, still annoyed at how they had missed the fairway and just chip back onto the fairway, I would always try to leave 80 yards into the green so I would touch the screen of my Shotmiser just before the hazard and it would give me a distance of how far I would have to hit it to leave me my favoured 80 yard shot in instead of just chipping out somewhere which again is all that happens at the very top level of golf by the caddie giving the Pro the club that will hit it the preferred distance to leave their favoured approach shot.
If you can stick to this drill you will achieve more hit greens which inevitably leads to more holed putts.
There’s no question that a GPS system can help any golfer’s game. A GPS can even help someone who almost always plays on the same course. You may be familiar with the yardages to the holes from different locations on the fairway but you may not always be in the fairway. How do you know how much club to take when your 30 yards wide off the fairway? I know being off-line will add some distance to my target, but how much? In my view, that’s where a GPS can help someone who plays on the same course all the time. And a GPS unit would benefit someone playing an unfamiliar course even more. Simply put, golf GPS can help you select the right club to use on each and every shot you take because it removes all the guesswork about your yardage.