The World Platinum GPS rangefinder features a touch screen and comes with a memory filled with information on 40,000 golf courses. The unit also comes with TouchPoint instant distance measurement.

RRP: of £329

www.worldplatinumgps.com

The Tour V2 measures 4 x 7 x 10.9cm and weighs 187 grams. It features PinSeeker technology, which is designed to offer distances of up to 1,000 yards to within one yard of the exact distance, without inadvertently offering distances to background targets.

RRP: £260

www.bushnellgolf.com

Garmin offers a pair of handheld, touch-screen golf GPS units, the Approach G3 and G5 (pictured). While the G3 comes with a 2.6” screen, the G5 features a 3” screen and enhanced functionality. Both are pre-loaded with 6,900 European courses.

RRP: G3 £249.99; G5 £329.99

www.garmin.co.uk

The V500 features a 3-inch touch screen, and is pre-loaded with over 2,400 UK courses. Golfers touch the screen to receive their yardage to the green, and it tracks shots and provides game statistics. No annual fees or downloading are required.

RRP: £329

www.golfsmitheurope.co.uk

CaddyAid Mobile is a downloadable golf GPS programme for mobile phones, for which club pros do not have to pay any upfront fees. Pros are billed once golfers have purchased and downloaded CaddyAid from the pro shop.

RRP: £29.99

www.caddyaidmobile.com

The World model is smaller than its World Platinum stablemate and uses button functions in conjunction with a touch screen. It does not store as much data as the Platinum model, but still comes with 40,000 pre-loaded courses.

RRP: £279

www.gpsgolfbuddy.eu

The 350G comes in a shock-resistant unit and can measure distances to pins and hazards. Nikon promises that First Target Priority technology ensures the 350G will not confuse other obstacles for the pin.

RRP: £249.99

www.nikonrangefinders.co.uk

The SGX comes with an enlarged three-inch, LCD screen, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and SkyCaddie’s proprietary Truepoint Precision Positioning Technology. The SGX is pre-loaded with basic information on 30,000 worldwide golf courses, with memory to hold 50 detailed course profiles. SGX owners also gain access to the new Club SG Beta online community, including detailed game analysis.

RRP: £349.95
www.skygolf.com

GolfBuddy’s Tour GPS stores up to 20,000 golf courses and will track a golfer’s scoring for up to 1,000 rounds. The Tour GPS comes with every available European golf course already stored in the memory, and updating the GolfBuddy is free of charge. Key functions include automatic golf course and hole recognition, a moveable pin locator and hazard and target mapping that can be customised.

RRP: £349.95
www.gpsgolfbuddy.eu

The new Smartphone Application from Golf Logix enables golfers to download what Golf Logix describes as ‘a fully functional golf GPS system … for a fraction of the price usually associated with golf GPS units’. Providing a variety of distance measurements for very hole, the application will also record shot distances, fairways hit and GIRs. Golf Logix currently has over 25,000 courses mapped worldwide.

RRP: US$39.95 (online only)
www.golflogix.com

The new Sonocaddie V350 handheld GPS system comes with all golf courses in the UK and Ireland pre-loaded, meaning there is no download process or membership fee for golfers. With 3D course layout graphics, the V350 allows golfers to add up to 10 specific targets per hole and it also features a digital scorecard, game analysis and shot distances. It is fitted with a re-chargeable battery.

RRP: £329.00
www.golfsmitheurope.co.uk

The lightweight 350G Rangefinder is simple to use: aim at the target, press the button and the distance flashes up on screen. The shock-resistant unit can measure distances to pins and hazards alike, and can be used from as near as 11 yards to a specified target. Nikon promises that its First Target Priority technology ensures the 350G will not confuse other obstacles for the pin.

RRP: £219.99
www.nikon.com

The Go Planet Mars 100 features a colour screen and offers golfers distances to the front, centre and back of greens. The unit also measures shot distances, and it can hold course information on up to 100 courses at any one time, with a library of 20,000 worldwide courses available online, without any annual membership fees.

RRP: £139
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The Tour V2 measures only 4 x 7 x 10.9cm and weighs 187 grams, and it features Bushnell’s PinSeeker technology, which is designed to offer distances to within one yard of the exact yardage, without inadvertently offering distances to background targets. It can measure distances between five and 1,000 yards and displays information with an in-view LCD display.

RRP: £260
www.bushnellgolf.com

The new Sabre GL from Opti-Logic promises yardage readings from four yards, up to 1,000 yards for passive measurements, and 1,500 yards for reflective. The viewfinder magnifies the target by six times and the unit is designed to offer accuracy to within a yard. It comes complete with waterproof, rubberised housing.

RRP: £269.95
www.golfsmitheurope.co.uk

CaddieAid consists of downloadable software

for a mobile phone. Golfers can make unlimited downloads of course information for nearly 3,000 UK courses, and with full-colour graphics the CaddieAid Mobile will show golfers maps of the hole with distance read-outs to all the key features. It is compatible with LG, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, iPhone, Sony Eriksson and Blackberry.

RRP: £49.99
www.caddieaidmobile.com

CaddieAid consists of downloadable software

for a mobile phone. Golfers can make unlimited downloads of course information for nearly 3,000 UK courses, and with full-colour graphics the CaddieAid Mobile will show golfers maps of the hole with distance read-outs to all the key features. It is compatible with LG, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, iPhone, Sony Eriksson and Blackberry.

RRP: £49.99
www.caddieaidmobile.com