The best golf technology is the kind you forget you're wearing. A GPS watch sits on your wrist, knows the course before you tee off, and gives you the distance every time you look down. No phone. No fumbling with a device. Just the number, right where your eyes naturally go when you're standing over a shot.

Garmin built the Approach series specifically for golf — the S12 for golfers who want yardages and nothing else, the S44 and S50 for those who want a little more from their round, and the S70 for golfers who live and breathe the game. Shot Scope brings its own GPS watches with automatic performance tracking built in, so your stats are recorded without having to press anything.

If you're going to wear something on your wrist during a round anyway, it might as well tell you exactly how far you are from the green.