Golf GPS (14 products)

Improve your game and map out your course strategy with the range of Golf GPS devices at Johnny Appleseed GPS.


We sell the very best selection of Garmin’s golf-focused GPS, rangefinders, and performance tech. View the range below and buy online or at one of our stores.

Golf GPS for Beginners and Pros

Whether you’re just getting into golfing or you’ve been doing it for years, a golf GPS can help you better map out courses and hazards while refining your game.

The range of Garmin golf GPS devices perfectly suits beginner, intermediate, and pro golfers. They come in handheld and smartwatch variants.

At every step of your golfing journey, a solid golf GPS can help you hone your skills and get more out of the experience.

Benefits of Using Golf GPS Devices

There are many benefits you can expect from investing in a golf GPS device. But it’s not just a matter of GPS solutions, other related products like golf launch monitors, club sensors, and rangefinders bring a host of benefits that can improve your game.

These include:

  • Detailed maps of thousands of golf courses and ranges from across the world
  • Hazard detection through GPS and rangefinder capabilities - identify bunkers (sand traps), rough grass, lakes and ponds, barricades, shrubs and vegetation, etc.
  • Launch monitors and club sensors can assess the performance of your swings - angle, speed, follow-through, accuracy, etc.
  • Proper measurements of wind speed and direction to help you adjust the positioning of your shots.
  • Rangefinders that allow you to make exact measurements of how far you are from the green, hazards, and other obstacles
  • Handheld and smartwatch golf GPS devices provide quick visualisations of each course, weather and wind details, etc.
  • When connected to the Garmin Golf app, you can engage in friendly competition with friends and other app users to improve your skills.

Choosing the Best Golf GPS

Whether you want to enhance your golfing experience or your own golfing skills, Johnny Appleseed has Garmin's best selection of golf GPS devices.

Given every product offers many benefits, it’s a matter of selecting what’s best suited to your needs:

  • Handheld and smartwatch golf GPS devices: great for essential information - course layouts, hazards, weather and wind speeds, etc.
  • Launch monitors: provide you with granular and accurate metrics regarding your swings and putts so you can improve your form.
  • Club sensors: similar insights into your swings and putts with the use of sensors affixed to the handle of your golf clubs.
  • Rangefinders: get exact real-time measurements of each hole on a golf course, as well as hazards and wind speeds, and receive guidance on how to increase or decrease the power used in a swing when working up or downhill.

If you need assistance making a decision, we can help. Get in touch.

FAQs About Golf GPS Units

These GPS devices are focused on providing positioning and navigation for people playing on golf courses.

They typically come with thousands of golf courses preloaded, then use traditional satellite-based GPS to track where you are on each leg of the course.

Unlike the GPS you see on your phone or fitness watches, golf GPS devices also provide course-specific information to help players optimise their game. This includes hazards, weather conditions, par value per hole, golf club suggestions for specific shots, etc.

If you opt for a smartwatch golf GPS, it also includes the usual smartwatch functions you’d expect, like notifications from your phone and syncing information with the Garmin Golf app for comprehensive performance data.

As noted, most golf GPS units utilise satellite-based global positioning to help you know where you are on any given course. It then relays course-specific information to you.

Rangefinders often use a mixture of traditional GPS and laser measurements to give you the most accurate positional information.

Golf GPS and rangefinders provide similar information, but do so in different ways.

A general golf GPS device like a handheld or smartwatch option, provides all your course information based on preloaded data and your satellite position.

Rangefinders, on the other hand, use more precise laser measurements to give you exact numbers on where you are relative to any of your surroundings on a golf course.

When integrated with traditional GPS functionality, as with the Garmin Approach Z82 Rangefinder, you can get very accurate readings to help you refine your game to a granular level.

In recent years, golf GPS devices have become more accepted within some tournaments, but not all. Even then, there are typically restrictions.

For example, in some tournaments, rangefinders can be used during practice rounds but will not be permitted in official tournament rounds.

Other tournaments may permit the use of a rangefinder or other GPS device in tournament rounds, but only in limited capacities. So, golfers may be permitted to make a basic straight-line measurement of the distance between the tee-off and the hole.

However, they’re not allowed to measure specific gradients, hazards, wind speeds, temperatures, humidity, or other data that could give them an unreasonable edge.

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