March 29, 2015 – GolfBuddy has launched the world’s first golf GPS band. The company’s new BB5 GPS band is significantly slimmer and lighter than a watch and delivers supremely accurate yardages via a ‘tickertape-style’ LED dot display.

The first BB5 will be available in Europe next April as part of a global launch programme of a product seen as a genuine major development in the way golfers receive distances on the course.

BB5 gives precise distances to the front, middle and back of the green on over 37,700 global golf courses. Golfers can also measure their shot distances, record the number of steps they take and tell the time.

BB5 weighs just 1 ¼ ounces, is water resistant to IP65 rating and has a rechargeable lithium battery giving up to 13 hours in golf mode. It comes supplied with two sizes of band S/M and L/Xl, with six different colour bands available as accessories.

GolfBuddy’s General Manager, John Ennis, said: “The global rise of the fitness band has firmly established ‘wearable tech’ and the launch of the BB5 positions GolfBuddy once again at the forefront of bringing the latest mainstream consumer trends to golf.” 

“The BB5 delivers outstanding distance measuring accuracy to the front, middle and back of over 500,000 worldwide golf course greens and also provides shot distance measurement, so golfers can record how far they hit each club.”

“It’s very slim and light when compared to GPS watches, so appeals to golfers who don’t currently like to wear a watch when they play, or lady and junior golfers looking for a lighter or more comfortable GPS option.”

“BB5 tells the time and has a pedometer for those who want the additional benefit of owning a ‘fitness tracker’.”

It means GolfBuddy is the only Distance Measuring Device (DMD) brand which offers products to suit all golfers, however they want to receive distance information – laser rangefinder (LR4), GPS handheld devices (PT4), GPS watches (WT5, WT4), compact audio GPS (VS4) and now wearable tech GPS (BB5).

GolfBuddy is also the only company that focuses 100% on golf, maps courses on foot for added accuracy and provides completely fee-free access to its extensive worldwide database of courses.

Premium features like Dynamic Green View, distances to targets, hazards and round stats analysis are also completely fee-free, forever, with all products.

RRP: £ 199.95.

Por REDACCIÓN