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| Blue Tees Player+ | Voice Caddie T11 LT | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (MSRP) | $199.99Lower price | $249.99 |
Get the Voice Caddie T11 LT.
Get the T11 LT. It's a proper on-wrist GPS with green contours, automatic shot tracking, slope compensation, and 27 holes of battery — all for $50 more than the Player+. The Blue Tees Player+ makes sense if you want a Bluetooth speaker and phone charger that also tells you yardages; as a dedicated golf GPS, the T11 LT beats it on almost every meaningful dimension. The Player+ is also discontinued, so if something goes wrong, you're on your own.
Both run on GPS, cover 40,000 preloaded courses, and cost nothing in ongoing subscriptions. Both have color touchscreens, free course updates, hazard views, hole maps, and scoring. Both are IPX-rated (the Player+ at IPX7). Neither is a watch, strictly speaking — one goes on your cart, the other goes on your wrist.
These are genuinely different devices, which makes the comparison a little strange. The Blue Tees Player+ is a cart-mounted Bluetooth speaker that also functions as a GPS. It weighs 800g — about 16 times the T11 LT's 48g — and attaches via a magnetic strip to your cart or club bag. It has a 3-inch touchscreen that you glance at, a 30W dual-driver speaker that announces yardages audibly, and it doubles as a power bank to charge your phone mid-round.
The T11 LT is a 48g watch you wear on your wrist. You get yardages at a glance without reaching for anything on the cart. That's a meaningful difference if you walk a lot, carry, or play courses where a cart isn't available.
If you always ride and like music on the course, the Player+ form factor actually has an appeal that the T11 LT doesn't offer. But if on-course GPS accuracy is the primary job, the watch format wins.
The Player+ has a split-brain problem here. The device itself shows front/center/back yardages and hazard detection. But full hole mapping, green view, and flyover animations require the Blue Tees app on your phone. So it's not really phone-free — you're carrying both the speaker and your phone if you want the full picture.
The T11 LT is phone-independent for mapping. Full-color hole maps, auto-zoom on the fairway, green undulation with a heat map and break direction arrows, and Smart Putt View that auto-activates when you're on the green. That's all on the watch itself, no phone required.
The green contours feature is worth calling out specifically. The T11 LT shows you slope direction and break around the hole on a heat map. The Player+ doesn't have green contours at all. If you're trying to get better at reading greens — or you're just tired of guessing whether a putt breaks left or right — that's a real difference.
The Player+ handles shot measuring manually and tracks score. Fine, but you're doing the work.
The T11 LT tracks shots and putts automatically, then scores automatically too. It also has slope compensation — it adjusts yardages in real time for elevation, showing you plays-like distance rather than raw GPS distance. That's a feature you'd typically find on devices $100-$150 more expensive. There's also a tournament mode that disables slope if you're playing competitively.
What the T11 LT doesn't have: wind data (that's the T11 Pro), club recommendations (also Pro), and long putt guidance (Pro again). So it's mid-tier Voice Caddie, not top-of-the-line. But for $249.99, it's punching well above its price class.
The Player+ runs 11 hours in GPS mode — enough for 36 holes per charge, reviewers note, at 50% speaker volume. That's genuinely impressive, and the power bank functionality means you're also topping up your phone during the round.
The T11 LT manages 27 holes in golf mode, then sits in watch mode for up to 10 days. No speaker, no power bank. Just GPS and wrist-based convenience.
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One honest caveat on the Player+: it's discontinued. Stock is clearing through retailers at $199.99, but warranty support after your 2-year window won't have a replacement path from the manufacturer. If you buy one and it fails in year three, you're starting over anyway.
The T11 LT costs $50 more and delivers green contours, slope compensation, automatic shot tracking, and a genuinely phone-independent experience on your wrist. The Player+ is a capable cart speaker that happens to have GPS built in — and it does the speaker part well. But as a golf GPS, it's outclassed: the split-device dependency for full hole mapping, the lack of green contours, and the discontinued status all work against it. For most golfers who want a dedicated GPS device, the T11 LT is the better answer.
Get the Voice Caddie T11 LT.