Used by well over 95% of Tour players, Bushnell lasers are rightly considered some of the best rangefinders money can buy. While the brand’s Tour V6 Shift and Pro X3+ are still considered its best to date, I think its latest Tour Hybrid laser is by far its best for the average, everyday golfer looking for simplicity combined with the perfect amount of on-course data to improve decision-making.
The Tour Hybrid combines all that’s great about the best Bushnell rangefinders, with a built-in GPS that displays the yardage to the front, middle and back of the green all through the viewfinder. I can’t stress how brilliant it has been to play with a laser that also provides these vital distances in one convenient package. Often golfers have to choose whether they’d prefer a GPS or a laser, but now these technologies have been superbly combined in an easy-to-use and premium package.
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I know adding front, middle and back distances is only a small amount of added information, but knowing these numbers and how that corresponds with the yardage to the pin really allowed me to make better decisions when approaching greens. If you’re not playing with pin sheets or colour-coded flags that tell you which portion of the green the flag is on, having this info gave me a far better understanding of what club I needed to hit into the green.
Here’s what it looks like down the viewfinder. Simple, easy to understand and all the information a golfer needs to make the right club choice.
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The Tour Hybrid offers slope-adjusted distances, both for the laser distance and the GPS distances, which is another invaluable feature when you’re not in a competition. This, of course, can be easily toggled on and off with the slope switch on the side of the device. It’s the first Bushnell device to offer slope-adjusted distances for both the laser and the GPS offers golfers a further layer of information when they are making decisions on the course.
My favourite part of my experience with the Tour Hybrid was how the GPS picked up my location without me having to do a thing. I test a lot of golf technology and have found the need to download accompanying apps, connect devices via Bluetooth, or sign up and create accounts on new apps to be incredibly laborious and time-consuming. Luckily, with the Tour Hybrid, there is nothing extra you need to do to fire up the device and get it working to its…
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