Best golf gifts: 8 great gift ideas for golf techies

The Garmin Approach S60, with its brilliant 1.2-inch color touchscreen display, is a state-of-the-art GPS watch with modern style. Category-leading sensors enhance detection accuracy for pin-point yardages and shot distances. Convenient, QuickFit Watch Bands allow golfers to change their look to match their on- or off-course activity. A library of 41,000 courses, and the ability to zoom in and out on hole features for yardages to dodge bunkers and water hazards, makes the Approach S60 a wearable game-management guru. AutoShot game tracking records shots and feeds data into Garmin Connect for post-round analysis.

$289.58

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The Arccos Caddie Smart Sensors are fully-automatic shot trackers that embed right into the end of your clubs’ grips. There’s seamless integration with the Arccos Caddie app, which tracks shots and provides real-time “plays like” distances. Talk about dialed in.

$250 (14)

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Adidas has never made a shoe with a knit upper that’s also waterproof — until now. The Tour360 XT Primeknit allows air to flow out for breathability while keeping moisture at bay. It’s good looking, too.

$180

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A rain jacket shouldn’t feel like a straitjacket. The Kjus Pro 3L 2.0 definitely does not. It’s stretchable, breathable and loaded with more technology than a laptop. Kjus’s design sharpies analyzed the biomechanics of the golf swing to create fashionable outerwear that moves like one.

$499

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The Vessel Lite has a clean, sophisticated look coupled with a feather-light, 4.25-pound profile. The tech is in the materials: carbon fiber legs, YKK water-resistant zippers, premium nylon twill.

$295

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The GolfLogix app, which is owned by GOLF’s parent company, is an innovative stat-tracking and GPS tool for golfers who like to use their smartphones on the course. The app’s new Putt Line feature is like having a professional looper in your pocket, giving tech-savvy golfers the perfect read.

$49.99 (yearly)

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One thing techies are serious about is their stats, and the Foresight GC2 is a lightweight portable launch monitor that delivers them. It utilizes a high-resolution camera (up to 10,000 frames per second) to capture ball speed, launch angle, side spin and carry-distance data they can count on.

$9,500

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Developed by an actual weatherman, the Weatherman Umbrella can withstand torrential downpours and gale-force winds. Seems there’s better weather ahead.

$79

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