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| Shot Scope G6 | Shot Scope H50 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (MSRP) | $179.99Winner | $199.99 |
Get the H50.
The H50 wins on features — it's not close. Green contours, PlaysLike distances, a 4.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen, manual shot tracking, strokes gained, dual-band GPS, and a cart magnet, all for $20 more than the G6. The G6 is a clean, lightweight GPS watch if wearing your yardages on your wrist is the whole point. But if you want more information and a bigger screen to look at it on, the H50 delivers a lot more golf computer for the money.
Both are Shot Scope. Both have full-color hole maps, hazard distances, and dogleg yardages on 36,000+ preloaded courses with free updates — no subscription required, ever. Both are tournament-legal. Both use the Shot Scope app for syncing. Same 2-year warranty.
This is the core split. The G6 is a 42g watch — you put it on before your round and forget it's there. The H50 is a 270g handheld, roughly the size and heft of a small smartphone, that goes in your pocket or clips to the cart with its built-in magnet.
If you hate carrying anything extra, the G6 wins on principle. If you're already used to pulling a device out to read yardages, the H50's large touchscreen makes that interaction genuinely better. The cart magnet helps — stick it to the frame and glance down the fairway at a 4.3-inch display instead of squinting at a 44mm wrist.
The G6 uses a MIP display at 176×176 resolution. MIP is excellent in sunlight — it reflects light rather than fighting it — but it's not what you'd call crisp. The H50 runs an AMOLED touchscreen at 4.3 inches with portrait and landscape modes. Viewing angle, color depth, and sheer readability of the hole maps aren't comparable. The H50's screen is genuinely impressive for a $200 device.
Both have full hole maps, hazards, and layup yardages. The H50 adds two things the G6 doesn't have: green contours and PlaysLike distances.
Green contours show elevation changes on the putting surface — useful if you're playing a course where you can't read the green from 150 yards. They're typically a membership feature on Garmin ($99/yr) and some other brands. Shot Scope includes them free on the H50. The G6 doesn't have them at all.
PlaysLike distance accounts for elevation change between you and the pin — uphill holes play longer, downhill shorter. The G6 gives you the flat GPS number. If you're playing a course with meaningful elevation changes, that matters. At a flat municipal track, less so.
The G6 has none. It's a GPS-only watch — yardages, hole maps, scorecard. That's it.
The H50 has manual shot tracking (you tap to mark each shot) and syncs 100+ stats to the app, including strokes gained. Manual tracking requires discipline — you have to remember to tap — but you don't need sensors or tags, and there's no additional hardware cost. If you've been curious about strokes gained but not ready to invest in a full tracking system, the H50 is an unusually low barrier of entry.
The G6 uses single-band GPS (L1). The H50 uses dual-band GNSS (L1/L5 across GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo). Dual-band is generally more accurate in situations where signal bounces off trees or terrain. Probably won't matter much on an open parkland course. More noticeable on tight, tree-lined tracks.
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Twenty dollars separates these two. The H50 has a larger AMOLED screen, green contours (free), PlaysLike distances, dual-band GPS, shot tracking, strokes gained, and a cart magnet. The G6 is a lightweight GPS watch with solid yardages and zero frills. If the watch form factor isn't a requirement for you, the H50 is a pretty easy call at the price. The G6 makes sense if you want something on your wrist and not in your hand — and that's genuinely a valid preference. But feature-for-feature, the H50 isn't close.
Get the H50.