The Quick Verdict
Honestly? These two together is the setup — the Wingman 2 on the cart rail for instant audible yardages (and music), the Tour Hybrid in your pocket for pin-precise laser distances. Both are Bushnell, both live in the Bushnell Golf app, and at $170 + $500 combined they cover every distance need you have on a golf course. Buying just one? Take the Tour Hybrid — it does the Wingman 2's core job (GPS yardages to front, center, back) and then some, works whether you ride or walk, and gives you exact distance to the pin.
What They Actually Do
The Wingman 2 is a cart-mounted GPS speaker: it snaps to your cart rail with a BITE magnet, calls out yardages through its speaker when you press the remote, and plays music from your phone. The Tour Hybrid is a laser rangefinder with onboard GPS built in — you point it at a target and it fires back an exact distance, up to 1,300 yards. Both are Bushnell products that live in the Bushnell Golf app, and neither requires a subscription.
The Real Tradeoffs
Precision vs. convenience
The Wingman 2 gives you front, center, and back of the green — that's it. Useful, fast, and good enough for most tee shots and layups. The Tour Hybrid gives you ±1 yard to whatever you're pointing at: the pin, a fairway bunker lip, the tree hanging over the landing zone. For approach shots where pin position actually matters — back-right tucked behind a bunker, front-left with no room to run it — the laser wins and it's not close.
Speed of use while riding
Here's where the Wingman 2 earns its $170. It's already on the cart rail, already on. Hit a button on the BITE remote and you hear the yardages without putting a club down, without taking anything out of your pocket. That's genuinely faster than pulling the Tour Hybrid out of a holster and ranging while your cart partner is waiting. For a rider who just wants to know the number quickly on every hole, the Wingman 2 is hard to beat on speed.
But the Wingman 2 stays on the cart
This is the critical one. Walk to your ball 40 yards from the cart and the Wingman 2's yardage is behind you. It does not travel. The Tour Hybrid goes with you — in your pocket, to your ball, to the next tee, to the par-3 where you're walking back from the drop zone. If you walk at all, the Wingman 2 is the wrong tool. The Tour Hybrid doesn't care whether you ride or walk.
What you're pointing at vs. what you see
The Tour Hybrid is a measurement tool — it tells you how far away the thing you're aiming at is. It cannot show you the shape of the hole, where the hazards sit, or how far you need to carry the water. Standing on a tee box you've never seen, 390-yard dogleg with a bunker cluster at 230 — the Tour Hybrid has nothing to offer until you have a target. The Wingman 2, paired with the Bushnell Golf app on your phone, has a flyover and hole layout ready before you pull a club. That's a category advantage the laser can never answer.
The flip side: standing 155 yards from a tucked back-left pin, the Wingman 2 can only tell you the back of the green is 165. The Tour Hybrid tells you the pin is 158. That 7-yard difference might not matter. Or it might be the difference between making the putt and making a bogey.
The GPS inside the Tour Hybrid
The Tour Hybrid isn't just a laser — it has onboard GPS with course maps. So in one unit you're getting audible-style yardages (without the audio) and pin precision. It doesn't replace the Wingman 2's remote-button convenience on a cart, but it does mean you're not giving up GPS course awareness by choosing the rangefinder.
Cost and batteries
The Wingman 2 is $170 with USB-C charging and about three rounds of battery per charge. The Tour Hybrid is $500 and runs on disposable CR-123 batteries — which last a long time, but you're buying batteries eventually. Over three years, factor that in. The Wingman 2 is dramatically cheaper and has zero ongoing costs.
Tournament legality
The Tour Hybrid has a slope switch, so slope-adjusted distances can be disabled for tournament play. The Wingman 2 has no slope function at all and is straightforwardly legal. If you're playing in any competition, both are fine — just make sure slope is off on the Tour Hybrid.
Who Should Get Which
Mount the Wingman 2 if you always ride, you want yardages and music from one device clipped to the cart bar, and you don't need to know the exact pin distance. If pressing a button and hearing "front 142, center 158, back 171" while your passenger is rummaging for a ball is enough for you, it probably is enough. Also: it's $170 and has no subscription. That matters.
Grab the Tour Hybrid if you walk at all, if you play enough different courses that hole-by-hole strategy matters, or if approach accuracy is a priority. Serious players who want exact pin distance — and who already own a GPS device or just use the app on their phone — will be happy with the Tour Hybrid as a standalone. The built-in GPS means you're not totally blind on course layout either.
Get both if you ride regularly, play at least once or twice a week, and want the full setup: audible yardages and music from the Wingman 2 while rolling down the fairway, Tour Hybrid out of the bag when you're standing over an approach and need the actual number. Both are Bushnell, both live in the same app, and at under $700 combined it's a legitimate pairing rather than an indulgence.
The Bottom Line
These two products are more complementary than competitive — one sits on the cart and talks to you, the other rides in your pocket and points at things. If you're buying one, the Tour Hybrid is the answer: it works everywhere (walking, riding, any course, any shot), gives you laser precision plus onboard GPS, and doesn't leave its yardage on the cart when you walk to your ball. The Wingman 2 is a terrific add-on for riders who want hands-free distances and some music — but it doesn't stand alone the way the Tour Hybrid does.