The Bushnell Excel GPS watch is one of the best wearable GPS devices on the market. Excellent display and ease of use highlight a long list of positives.
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Introduction
There are many GPS options available to golfers â watches, handheld devices, and a myriad of apps on your phone. The Bushnell Excel doesnât make you choose: it gives you a high quality app to pair with the watch. For this review, I took both to the course to see how they stack up to the competition.
Set Up & Ease of Use
The Bushnell Excel GPS is pleasantly short on accessories. In the box youâll find the watch, a USB charging dock, and a brush for cleaning the contacts on the watch.
After opening it up, I threw the watch on the charger to get it to 100%, and I downloaded the Bushnell app to my phone. Once the watch was charged, I paired it with the phone in a couple clicks.
During my first round with the Excel, I was able to get everything up and running quickly without benefit of instructions. There are only five buttons which makes it easy to trial-and-error your way to whatever features you need.
Finally, one of the major advantages of the Excel is wireless updating. It comes with over 35,000 courses pre-loaded, but eventually youâll need an update. If you pair your Excel to your phone, it will update courses without the hassle of plugging the watch into your computer and going through a long series of menus.
Accuracy & Performance![]()
Golf
After powering up and switching into golf mode, the Excel took a couple minutes to get a GPS signal and list the nearby courses. Once I selected the course, there was no need to touch the watch again. It quickly and accurately changed holes and yardages as I walked.
If you want more information than the yardages to the front, center, and back of the green, that is available. One push of a button brings up the distances to hazards. You need to decode some abbreviations, but I found them all fairly intuitive. You can also use the Excel to measure the distance of your shots.
I found wearing the Excel on the course to be acceptable. Itâs very light, but it isnât small. As someone who normally golfs without anything on his wrists, the Excel was noticeable to me but not bothersome. The size is a plus in that it makes the display larger and easier to read. The display also auto-adjusts its brightness for readability in all light conditions.
The App
Bushnellâs golf app is one of my favorites. I really like the arcs at 100, 150, 200, and 250 yards, and you can tap the map to get the exact distance to any given point on the hole. Perhaps the best feature is the flyover view of the hole. This is particularly valuable when youâre playing a hole for the first time. Finally, the app allows for score keeping and shows you all the data you could otherwise find by scrolling through menus on your watch.
Bonus Functionality
In addition to providing distances, the Excel can measure your swing tempo, count your steps, show you the weather, and give you notifications from your phone. With all of these features, the Excel can easily be your everyday watch or a replacement for a FitBit.
Value
The Bushnell Excel GPS watch retails for $250 (support PluggedInGolf, buy it HERE). A quick search of the current GPS market reveals this to be on the upper end in terms of price, with many watches and bands at or under $125.
Bushnell Excel Gps Rangefinder Watch
Having reviewed a handful of these lower priced GPS units, my feeling is that you get what you pay for. There are a number of things about the Excel â wireless updates, larger display, extra non-golf features, and the app â that make it superior to the cheaper products.
ConclusionBushnell Golf Excel Gps Rangefinder Watch User Manual Printable
If you want to improve your pace and play (and make better course management decisions), a wearable GPS is hard to beat. On the fundamentals â speed, accuracy, display quality â the Bushnell Excel is near the top of the class. The additional functions push the value over the top.
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Matt Saternus
Matt is a golf instructor, club fitter, and writer living in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Matt's work has been published in Mulligan Magazine, Chicagoland Golf, South Florida Golf, and other golf media outlets. He's also been a featured speaker in the Online Golf Summit and is a member of Ultimate Golf Advantage's Faculty of Experts.
The main differences between the Garmin S20, Bushnell Neo Ion 2 and Excel are that only the S20 has automatic shot tracking, manual club tracking, overhead views of each hole, better hazard information, sleep monitoring and scorecard while the only advantage of the Bushnell Neo Ion is a longer battery life and lower price tag. They donât have some of the advanced features that the Garmin S6 and S60 watches or the Garmin G80, G8 and G30 handheld units have but it will give you accurate distances to the greens and hazards.
Bushnell Neo Ion 2 vs Excel
Features found in the Bushnell Excel (that are missing in the Bushnell Neo Ion)
Swing Pro â This feature allows the user to monitor the swing speed and swing tempo. If the watch is connected to the mobile app on your smartphone, this swing data will be uploaded to your smartphone after each swing. The app on this mobile device will display and store this swing data. Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone notifications with audio tone alerts (no vibration alert feature) Lighter Weight: 1.6 ounces (Excel) vs 1.8 ounces (Neo Ion) Thinner: 13.75 mm (Excel) vs 15 mm (Neo Ion) Problems with the Bushnell Excel â Why You Should Buy the Bushnell Neo Ion instead of the Excel poor battery life â Less than 2 rounds on a single charge (Bushnell Neo Ion will give you more than 3 rounds on a single charge) flimsy wrist strap â The watch band on the Bushnell Neo Ion is much more durable hard to read LCD screen â The Excel screen can be hard to read in sunlight. The Bushnell Neo Ion has a basic black and white monochrome screen that is much easier to read even in direct sunlight Bushnell Neo Ion 2 vs Garmin S20
Reasons to Buy the Garmin S20 â Features found in the Garmin S20 (that are missing in the Bushnell Neo Ion 2)
List of Hazard distances â The Garmin S20 has more comprehensive hazard information than the Bushnell Neo Ion 2. It will display the layup and carry distances to the front and back of all water hazards and sand traps for each par 4 and 5 hole. The distances are almost as accurate as the distances from a golf rangefinder. List of Layup Marker and Dogleg distances â Displays a list of layup marker and dogleg distances for each par 4 and 5 hole Fitness Tracking features â The Garmin S20 comes with a move bar inactivity alert, sleep monitor, step counter, automatic daily step goal and displays calories burned and distance traveled. The Bushnell Neo Ion only comes with a step counter. Dedicated Green View button with manual pin placement â displays the shape and layout of the greens Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone notifications with audio tone alerts â The S20 does not come with a vibration alert feature Automatic shot tracking (AutoShot round analyzer) â tracks shots, measures distance and records shot locations for analysis online with the free-to-join Garmin Connect golf community Digital Scorecard â easily keeps track of your score throughout your round (Bushnell Neo Ion 2 has no scorekeeping feature) Stat tracking â strokes, putts per round, greens in regulation and fairways hit (Bushnell Neo Ion 2 has no stat tracking feature) Garmin TruSwing sensor compatible â swing metrics that will help improve your golf swing consistency Lighter Weight: 1.5 ounces (S20) vs 1.8 ounces (Neo Ion 2) Thinner: 11.3 mm (S20) vs 15 mm (Neo Ion 2) Garmin S20 vs Bushnell Excel
Features found in the Garmin S20 (that are missing in the Bushnell Excel) â Why You Should Buy the Garmin S20
List of Hazard distances â The Garmin S20 has more comprehensive hazard information than the Bushnell Excel. List of Layup and Dogleg distances No sleep monitor, move bar inactivity alerts Dedicated Green View button with manual pin placement â displays the shape and layout of the greens Automatic shot detection and tracker (AutoShot round analyzer) Digital Scorecard Stat tracking Garmin TruSwing sensor compatible â swing metrics that will help improve your golf swing consistency Longer Battery life: Garmin S20: 15 hours vs Bushnell Excel: 10 hours Comparison Chart â Bushnell Neo Ion 2 vs Excel vs Garmin S20 Golf GPS Watch Comparisons
Bushnell Excel Gps Watch Manual
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