The Quick Verdict
Honestly? These two together is the setup. The G6 on your wrist for course strategy and the PRO L2 in your pocket for pin-precise yardage. Both are currently priced at $149.99 (with the G6 on sale from $179.99), so you're looking at roughly $300 for the pair — and both get 15% off with code PARANDPEG at Shot Scope's site. That's a legitimate full-featured distance setup for what some golfers spend on a single mid-tier GPS watch. If you genuinely have to pick just one, keep reading.
What They Actually Do
The G6 is a GPS watch — it shows you hole maps, distances to front/center/back of the green, and hazard info the moment you pull up the hole. The PRO L2 is a laser rangefinder — you point it at a target, press a button, and it tells you exactly how far away that thing is. Both are legal in tournament play (with slope disabled on the L2), and both are Shot Scope products that use the Shot Scope app.
The Real Tradeoffs
Precision vs. convenience
The PRO L2 locks onto a target — a flagstick, a tree, a bunker lip — and gives you that exact distance to within a yard. The G6 gives you front/center/back of the green to within a few yards from satellite data. For approach shots where the pin is cut front-left and there's trouble short, the rangefinder's precision matters. For everything before you get to the green — tee shots, layup decisions, figuring out which side of the fairway to favor — the watch is often faster and just as useful.
Speed of use
The G6 is already on your wrist. You glance at it. Done. The PRO L2 comes out of your pocket or bag, you find the flag in the scope, fire, read the number, put it away. That takes 10-15 seconds, which feels fine until you're on a busy Saturday morning with a group breathing down your neck. For quick reads — especially off the tee — the watch wins on sheer speed.
What you see before you hit
This is where the G6 earns its keep. Standing on a tee box you've never played, the G6 shows you the whole hole: where the water is, how far to carry the bunker, where the dogleg kicks, what the layup distance looks like. The PRO L2 can't give you any of that — it measures what you point it at, and it can't tell you what you should be pointing it at. A rangefinder will never show you a hole layout. That's a category-level limitation.
Here's a real-world scenario: 390-yard par 4, water running down the right side, dogleg left at 240. You need to know the carry over the corner to cut it, and whether laying up short leaves you an awkward number. The G6 shows you all of that before you pull a club. The PRO L2 is sitting in your bag doing nothing useful until you're 150 yards out.
Flip it around: you've found the fairway, you're 158 yards out, the pin is tucked back-right behind a bunker. Your watch says the center is 152 and the back is 165. Is the pin at 158? 162? That 6-yard gap might mean one club. The PRO L2 gives you 161 yards to the stick. You pull the right club. That's where the rangefinder earns its spot.
Ecosystem and pairing
Both are Shot Scope products sharing the Shot Scope app. That said, the spec data doesn't indicate that the G6 and PRO L2 sync to each other directly — the G6 doesn't appear to receive laser measurements from the L2 the way some higher-end paired systems work. They're companions in the sense that they live in the same ecosystem and your rounds can be tracked in one place, but don't expect the L2's readings to pop up on your wrist.
Cost of ownership
Neither product has a subscription. No annual fee for course maps on the G6 — 36,000+ courses included. No ongoing cost for the PRO L2. What you pay upfront is what it costs. Over three years, that's a big deal compared to GPS systems that charge $80-100/year for full course access.
Battery and maintenance
The PRO L2 runs on a standard battery and is rated for about 5,800 measurements. You're probably replacing that battery once a season, if that. The G6 lasts "2+ rounds" in GPS mode and 4 days in watch mode — which means you're charging it every couple of rounds. Not a dealbreaker, but worth knowing if you play back-to-back days.
Tournament legality
The G6 has a tournament mode. The PRO L2 has a slope switch — flip it to disable slope compensation and you're legal for competition. Both check the box.
Who Should Get Which
Get the G6 if you play a variety of courses, you want to understand each hole before you hit, and you'd rather have the info on your wrist without fishing for a device every shot. It's also the move if you want a clean daily-wear watch that happens to double as a full-featured golf GPS.
Get the PRO L2 if you play the same few courses regularly and already know the layouts cold — you just need exact pin distances and you want the simplest possible tool to get them. If you've been borrowing a buddy's rangefinder and thinking "I should just get one of these," the L2 at $149.99 is an easy entry point.
Get both if you're the kind of golfer who actually thinks about course management — where to miss, when to lay up, what the smart play is off the tee — and you also want to be precise on approach shots. For around $300 (or less with the discount code), you get a complete distance system. The G6 handles everything strategic and the PRO L2 handles everything surgical. A lot of single-digit and low-handicap players run this exact setup.
The Bottom Line
Both devices solve the same problem in completely different ways, and they genuinely complement each other rather than step on each other's toes. At $149.99 each with no subscription costs, the math is pretty easy if you're at all serious about your game.
Get both. The G6 on your wrist, the PRO L2 in your pocket.