Who do these golfers think they are?

Why do they deserve their very own GPS watch? And would those snooty stuck-up golfers like something like this as a gift? Especially since we’re sending it via expedited shipping, to arrive in time for Christmas? Is golf GPS a real thing used by savvy golfers, or just a way to pry money out of gullible ones?

“You could go out to the course and try to find out how many yards you’re away from the hole by counting the number of steps you take from sprinkler heads like some sort of animal,” says our own resident golfer @shawn. “Or you could get a device that just tells you.”

And what kind of device might that be? “There’s all kinds of handheld GPS devices or point-and-shoot laser rangefinders out there,” Shawn says. "I know because I’m constantly finding them laying on teeboxes where they got left behind or out in the middle of the fairway where they fell out of golf carts.

“The new hotness is to get one of these watches. It’s strapped to your wrist where you’re not gonna lose it.”

Shawn’s been playing since he was around 10, but really developed an interest a few years later because “My uncle had an old golf cart he would let me take out whenever I wanted. Some days in the summer I could squeeze in 72 holes. I’d like to say it was because I loved the game so much, but I think it was more about being able to drive the golf cart before I was able to drive a car.”

He kept swinging even after he got his license, and not for the shmoozing: “I’ve never had that stereotypical ‘business takes place on the golf course’ experience. I’m not sure it really exists except for in television and movies.”

Eventually he built a golf simulator in his house. Alas, he doesn’t have much chance to use it these days. “I got my 5 year-old son some clubs and he loves to go down there and hit balls,” Shawn says. “He probably uses it more than I do at this point.”

Playing regularly since his preteen years, playing 72 holes some days as a teenager, building a golf simulator in his house: Shawn’s bonafides as a golf guy are in order, even if he says “It’s really hard for me to sit down and watch golf on TV without falling asleep.”

As for the pre-loaded course maps, Shawn says there’s “no substitute for getting paired up with a member that can guide you along like Sacagawea,” but course maps are “useful the first time you play a course and you’re by yourself.”

Let’s get down to the real question, though: who will this make a good gift for? “Someone who plays regularly and doesn’t have a rangefinder,” Shawn says. “Or has an old, handheld GPS rangefinder. Or even someone who has a fancy laser shooter rangefinder but is eventually going to lose it. Or for a guy who used to work at a certain daily deal website before he started working at another daily deal website and who also built a golf-simulator in his basement (hint, hint).”

That all jibes with what Three Guys Golf Blog says about this watch: a “really very useful tool” that “functions flawlessly” and “looks good”. And those guys aren’t on our payroll.

Just don’t buy Shawn a round of Golden Tee for Christmas. “It’s like a whole different thing that’s not related to golf at all,” he says. “Awful. Can’t play it.”