Bushnell is better known for lasers like the Pro X3 than for watches, and the iON Elite is the only watch still listed in the GPS menu on bushnellgolf.com when we checked (6 Aug 2026). Its pitch is simple: take the thing Bushnell laser owners rely on most — slope-compensated distance — and put it on the wrist. Bushnell states this is the first of its watches to carry that patented Slope technology.

The 1.28-inch colour touchscreen changes how you move around the watch. HoleView draws the hole layout; turn on Shot Planning and you can pick a point on the hole and read the distance to it. GreenView shows the shape of the green with a pin you can drag to where it actually is. Front and back numbers are mapped dynamically to your line of play rather than fixed per hole.

The trade-off is the shape of it. At 46 × 53 mm and 15 mm thick it stands taller off the wrist than any golf watch on this site that publishes a thickness (the G6 is 10 mm, the Approach S44 11.4 mm, the aim W12 14.1 mm) — though at 38 g it weighs less than the 42 g G6, so the bulk is in the profile rather than the load. Battery is a claimed 12+ hours, or 2+ rounds per charge, over a custom magnetic 4-pin cable (lose it and you are buying a Bushnell part, not a generic one). Bushnell puts typical time to first fix under 45 seconds.

Specs we could not source: Bushnell publishes no screen resolution, names no satellite constellations beyond “GPS”, gives no battery capacity, and quotes no separate watch-mode runtime — only the 12+ hours of use. We have left all of those out rather than guess. On water resistance, the product spec sheet says IP67 while Bushnell’s own support page says IPX7; we list both with their sources and repeat the brand’s own instruction not to submerge it.

Buy this if you play slope regularly but would rather not raise a laser on every shot, you want the hole and the green drawn on your wrist, and it matters to you that there is a Thai seller with a warranty behind it. Skip it if you want one watch for golf and daily health tracking — the official spec list has no heart rate or sleep, so that is the Approach S70 — or if you want automatic per-club stats, which means the Shot Scope V3 and its tracking tags instead.

On price: the US product page lists USD 219.99 (checked 6 August 2026), and we do not convert that into baht. The baht figure here comes from GMall24, the online store run by Golf Channel Thailand, which lists a ฿6,900 promotional price against a stated ฿10,900 regular price with a one-year warranty (checked 6 August 2026). It is one shop and a promotion, so read it next to the check date. The shop’s own product copy also still carries an older number that contradicts its own cart price; we went with what it actually charges.

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