The dad who plays a handful of unfamiliar courses a year and is always short of the pin
What it is
Laser rangefinder with 6x magnification and a scan function.
Why we picked it
Course markers give the distance to the middle of the green, not to the flag, and on a back pin that gap is comfortably two clubs. The scan function also lets him sweep across a bunker lip or a tree line to find the number he actually has to carry.

