What They Have in Common
Both cover 36,000–40,000 preloaded courses with free updates, no subscription required. Both show front/center/back yardages and hazard distances. Both include digital scorecards. Both carry a 2-year warranty and connect to a companion app. That's a solid GPS baseline for the price.
Where They Differ
Form Factor — Handheld Speaker vs. Wrist Watch
This comparison starts and ends with form factor. The Player+ is a 800-gram cart-mounted device — that's nearly two pounds bolted to your cart with a magnetic strip, running a 3-inch color touchscreen and a 30W dual-driver speaker. The G6 is a 42-gram watch on your wrist that you forget you're wearing.
Neither is wrong. They solve different problems. But if you bought a GPS device to check yardages while you're standing over the ball, the G6 is just faster — glance down, read the number, swing. With the Player+, you're looking at a cart-mounted screen, which means walking back before every approach if you're carrying your bag.
What the Screen Covers
The Player+'s 3-inch touchscreen is larger and shows full-color visuals on the device itself for FCB and hazard yardages. That part works fine without your phone. But full hole maps, green view, and flyover animations require the Blue Tees app on your phone — the device alone doesn't render them. So you're not entirely phone-free.
The G6 does hole maps directly on the watch face. The display is MIP (memory-in-pixel), which is smaller at 176×176 resolution and doesn't have a touchscreen — button navigation only — but it's genuinely readable in bright sunlight, which AMOLED and some LCD displays struggle with. Everything renders on the watch. No phone required.
The Speaker Situation
The Player+'s headline feature is its 30W Bluetooth speaker with 360° audio and a 30-foot wireless range. If you listen to music on the course, or your group does, this is a real perk. It also doubles as a power bank for your phone, which is handy on long rounds. None of that is in the G6's wheelhouse — it's a GPS watch, not an entertainment system.
Worth being honest about: if you're not using the speaker and power bank features, you're paying a $20 premium over the G6 for a heavier, cart-dependent device that gives you less phone independence on hole maps, not more.
Shot Tracking
Neither includes shot tracking out of the box. The Player+ does manual shot measuring and score tracking. The G6 has digital scoring but no shot tracking at all — if you want Shot Scope's automatic tracking (which is genuinely good), you'd need to step up to the V5 or X5, which include club tags. Worth knowing if stats matter to you.
Battery
The Player+ runs 11 hours in GPS mode at 50% volume (less at full blast), and reviewers report surviving 36 holes. The G6 claims 2+ rounds in GPS mode and 4 days in watch mode. Both should handle a full round without stress, but the G6 wins on overall battery life simply because it keeps ticking as a watch between rounds.
Who Should Buy Which
Get the Shot Scope G6 if:
- You want a wrist-worn GPS you can glance at mid-stride
- You're carrying your bag or walking and don't want to hike back to the cart for yardages
- You want full hole maps on-device without reaching for your phone
- You're competing in amateur events and need a tournament-legal device
- You want 12 interchangeable strap colors and 42g of weight on your wrist
Get the Blue Tees Player+ if:
- Your group always rides and the cart is your command center anyway
- You want Bluetooth music on the course and your current speaker setup isn't cutting it
- Running low on battery mid-round stresses you out and you want a phone charger nearby
- You specifically want spoken yardages so you can keep your eyes on the course
- You're OK opening the app for full hole maps and green view
The Bottom Line
These two products look like they're competing on price, and they sort of are — but they're really built for different golfers. The Player+ is a cart accessory that also gives you GPS. The G6 is a GPS watch that happens to cost less. If you're walking, the G6 wins easily. If you're always riding and want music playing, the Player+ earns its place. For most golfers most of the time, the watch is just more useful — it's there when you need it, out of the way when you don't, and it shows you everything on-device without a companion app.
Get the Shot Scope G6.