Eagle Eye Rangefinder Review: Is a $149 Rangefinder Any Good?

We took the Eagle Eye Gen 5 rangefinder to the course for several rounds of golf and tested it in real-life scenarios. I even left my Shot Scope watch at home (gasp!) for much of this testing to ensure I relied exclusively on the Eagle Eye Rangefinder to get the best user experience possible. For a small part of my on-course testing, I used the Eagle Eye Rangefinder alongside my Shot Scope GPS watch to compare data and test its accuracy.

Without accuracy, a ragnefinder actually causes more harm than good. So just how accurate is the Eagle Eye Gen 5 Rangefinder? 

In my testing, I found the accuracy to be impeccable. 

I corroborated its measurements with GPS distances, other rangefinders, on-course yardage markers, course knowledge from playing the same course countless times, and club distances. 

After thorough testing, I have complete confidence in the accuracy of this Eagle Eye Rangefinder.

Like Titleist golf balls, Bushnell rangefinders have set the bar among golf rangefinders for years. So to give you a better idea of just how the Eagle Eye Gen 5 rangefinder stacks up, here’s how it compares to Bushnell’s Tour V6 rangefinder.

Bushnell touts premium optics and its patented slope technology as key selling points, but most modern rangefinders offer slope-adjusted distances (including the Eagle Eye Gen 5), and you certainly won’t take a look through the Eagle Eye lens and crave superior optics, especially if you’re keen to save a hundred bucks or more.

That’s why, in my opinion, the most important features in a rangefinder are accuracy, slope with an easy-to-toggle on/off switch, and a magnetic mount, which is an especially big convenience for players who typically use a cart. 

This brings me back to my original point that, if you can live without that magnetic mount, then you’ll love the Eagle Eye Gen 5 rangefinder, especially at its $149 price.

If you simply cannot live without a magnetic mount for your rangefinder, but you’re otherwise sold on this Eagle Eye Gen 5 unit, here’s a hack for you.

For around $30 on Amazon, this magnetic rangefinder strap wraps around any rangefinder and mounts to a golf cart or other magnetic surfaces. 

The Eagle Eye Rangefinder is sold by My Golfing Store (MGS) and when you initiate a purchase through their site or on Amazon, you have nothing to worry about.

However, when I write product reviews, I take the position as if a good friend, playing partner, or elderly relative is asking my advice. With that in mind, my recommendation of the Eagle Eye Rangefinder comes with one warning: be cautions of special promotions from My Golfing Store. 

I have seen special offers from MGS in the past with too-good-to-be-true prices, only to find that those promotional items come with a well-hidden and not cheap monthly subscription fee. So before publishing this review I checked out MGS on the Better Business Bureau online and found several complaints from customers being charged monthly subscription fees that they were unaware of after puchasing a promotional product. 

The good news is that the vast majority of those customers recieved a satisfactory resolution after reporting to the BBB, and MGS has a “B” rating overall. And I'll reiterate that those complaints did not stem from purchases initiated by the customer. They came from customers who responsed to a special offer they recieved from MGS.

The bottom line, however, is that it’s worth using caution when purchasing a heavily discounted product through MGS. Read all fine print and monitor the account used to make your purchase for 1-2 months after your purchase.

After thoroughly testing the Eagle Eye Gen 5 Rangefinder, I was quite impressed.

To answer the burning question at the top of this review, yes, this $149 rangefiner is actually good. Quite good, in fact. The only primary feature it's lacking, compared to the top rangefinders today, is a magnetic mount. The accuracy is spot on, it's a quality unit, it's easy to use, and it does everything you need it to do, all at a price that is really tough to beat in the rangefinder space.