For two years, the Blue Tees Player+ was my favorite golf Bluetooth speaker. It sounded great, the GPS yardages were handy, and I kept reaching for it even as I tested newer speakers.
And then the Mileseey GeneSonic Pro came along. It added two genuinely revolutionary features to the golf speaker market: a built-in GPS chip, and a removable screen.
Those new features are useful enough that I gave it my pick for best overall GPS golf speaker.
But that’s not the whole story.
The new Blue Tees Player Pro keeps the sound I liked about the Player+, adds a full-color touchscreen, and gives you hazard distances without a subscription. It also does something I actually find useful with all the AI stuff Blue Tees has been building. For instance, if you use a Rainmaker launch monitor to get your stock club distances, you can press a button on the speaker and hear what the shot is playing and which club your Blue Tees caddie thinks you should hit.
Despite the Mileseey having some better hardware features, the Player Pro has a much more robust ecosystem, more advanced AI features, and retails for $100 less.
So in this Blue Tees Player Pro review, I’m going to help you figure out which one (if either) is right for you.
Let’s do this.
The Player Pro sounds every bit as good as I hoped
The first thing I want out of a golf speaker is good sound. There’s a reason I kept the Player+ at the top of my list for two years, and the Player Pro sounds every bit as good as I hoped it would. Bluetooth connectivity was solid in my testing, too. If all I want to do is put on music for a round, pairing my phone and getting it playing is easy.
For GPS, you start a round in the Blue Tees GAME app on your phone. The speaker shows distances to the front, center, and back of the green, along with hazards. It took me a round or two to get comfortable swiping between screens and remembering what the different hazard icons meant. Once I knew where to look, getting a quick number became second nature.
The color screen looks good, and I like having the option to pull up a map of the hole. In practice, the maps are small enough that I rarely bothered. I’d glance at the Player Pro for a yardage all day, but if I wanted a good look at how an unfamiliar hole lays out, I’d rather use the Bushnell Wingman HD or the Mileseey GeneSonic Pro.
If you want great sound, a high quality screen, accurate GPS yardages and an eco-system that continues to get better, the Blue Tees Player Pro continues to be one of our favorite golf speakers.
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Where Blue Tees pulls ahead is when you own more than one device
Over the last two years, Blue Tees has built what I think is the most full-featured budget ecosystem in golf. There are two smart rangefinders in the Captain Pro and Captain Air, the Player Pro speaker, the Rainmaker launch monitor, and more. The more of those devices you use, the more useful each one becomes.
The Rainmaker is the easiest way to explain why. You can use it to establish how far you actually hit each club, and Blue Tees can bring those stock yardages into its on-course recommendations. The software takes into account the distance, slope, temperature, and wind, then uses your club data to make a recommendation. If your 7-iron carries 170, that’s a much better starting point than whatever the app assumes the average golfer hits a 7-iron.
Just keep in mind that to get this feature, you’ll need the “Intelligence” membership level for $80/year. More on that in a minute.
My favorite way to use it is to set up the custom action button to read out the adjusted yardage and club suggestion. I can press it, hear the recommendation, and pull a club without getting my phone out. It’s a small thing, but it works well, and it’s one of the few AI features in golf gear I can see myself using regularly.
The Captain Pro has a similar customizable button, but I personally got more use out of the one on the Player Pro speaker.
The GAME app is still the part I have the most mixed feelings about. It tries to do a lot, and sometimes it takes more digging than I’d like to get to the thing I actually want.
When I tested the Captain Pro, I ran into enough bugs that I mostly stopped using the app beyond getting smart yardages. Blue Tees has spent the year pushing updates and fixes, and it’s in a better place now than where it was. But I still need to do a more in-depth re-test to have definitive thoughts on the app experience as it currently sits.
Do you need a subscription for the Player Pro?
The free features are enough for the way a lot of golfers will use this speaker. You get front, center, and back green distances and hazard yardages without paying. Hazard distances used to be behind a paywall, so I’m glad Blue Tees now includes them.
Blue Tees lists two paid tiers. Core is $49.99 a year and adds features like adjusted yardages and club recommendations. Intelligence is $79.99 a year and adds Scout AI, which is Blue Tees’ more detailed on-course caddie, along with AI post-round summaries, more detailed analytics, and satellite maps. Blue Tees currently includes six months of Intelligence with the Player Pro. That trial renews at the Intelligence rate if you keep it.
I used to tout Blue Tees as having the best subscription value in golf. It was $99 for 3 years total.
In fairness, they’ve added a ton of new features to the new subscriptions, but $50 or $80 every year is still a tough sell if the Player Pro is the only Blue Tees product you own. I’d happily use the free yardages and put that money toward another round of golf.
If you already use GAME for your scorecards, practice with the Rainmaker, and play with one of the Captain rangefinders, the math makes more sense. The same membership works across your devices, and you’re getting something out of it at the range and on the course.
Blue Tees Player Pro vs. Mileseey GeneSonic Pro vs. Bushnell Wingman HD
If I’m judging the speakers on their own, I’d give the edge to the Mileseey GeneSonic Pro. The sound is similar on both of them. Both get plenty loud for the golf course, and have good bass response for a Bluetooth speaker.
But the Mileseey has two hardware features I’d love to see Blue Tees add: The GPS chip built into the speaker itself, and a removable screen that can function like a dedicated GPS device.
Especially on cart-path-only days, this is a relaly nice quality-of-life upgrade. You can leave the speaker on the cart, drop the screen in your pocket, and get a number when you reach your ball. I’m still going to pair my phone for music most of the time, but the real benefit of built-in GPS is that I can walk away from the cart and keep getting yardages even if the phone connection drops.
The Mileseey retails for $299.99, about $100 more than the Player Pro at regular price, and its GPS and course maps are subscription-free. But you can use the Mileseey discount code BREAKINGEIGHTY to save 10% and bring it down to $270. I’ve rarely seen it less than that, but I’d expect for big holiday sales we might see it go a little lower.
The first Bluetooth golf speaker to give you GPS yardages without needing to be paired to a phone. Combine this with the removable remote, and you've got our favorite speaker on the market.
The Bushnell Wingman HD also gives you the yardages and maps most people want without a paid plan, though Bushnell offers a separate Plus tier for extras like green heat maps. If I were buying primarily for the screen, I’d look at those two first.
I’d also consider the Bushnell if you’re already in the Bushnell/Foresight ecosystem. If you use a Launch Pro or any Foresight Launch monitor, or have a Bushnell Pro X3 or Tour V7 rangefinder, I think it makes more sense to remain within that ecosystem.
But on their own, I’d take the Player Pro over the Wingman HD, personally. This is especially true after Bushnell recently raised the price after launch from $199 to $249. You can use the Bushnell Golf discount code BREAKING10 to save 10%, but for the price difference, I’d stick with the Blue Tees.
The Wingman HD kind of gives you everything, and with no subscriptions. You get visual and audible yardages, hole maps, hazard distances, shot distance calculations, and a lot more.
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Is the Blue Tees Player Pro worth buying?
Yes. Even if you never pay for GAME, the Player Pro is an excellent Bluetooth speaker with useful GPS yardages. It’s the best value out of the three biggest players in this space, and sound and usability are just as good as either Bushnell or Mileseey (save for the extra features we mentioned earlier).
If you’re already in the Blue Tees ecosystem, then it makes choosing the Player Pro a no brainer.
If you’re not interested in committing to any golf ecosystem and just want a great speaker with accurate yardages, then the Player Pro is still the best value, and slightly behind the Mileseey overall.
You can use the Blue Tees discount code BREAKINGEIGHTY10 to save 10% and bring the cost down to about $180. But Blue Tees frequently runs sales where the code stacks, so I’d be looking to get it for around $162. And at that price? It’s a pretty easy choice.
Still not sure which is right for you? Here’s my full list of the best golf cart Bluetooth speakers.
If you want great sound, a high quality screen, accurate GPS yardages and an eco-system that continues to get better, the Blue Tees Player Pro continues to be one of our favorite golf speakers.
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An fantastic Bluetooth speaker with a constantly improving app and ecosystem behind it.
I've been critical of the overall Blue Tees app experience, but to their credit, they continue to make it better and better. The Player Pro may not have the built-in GPS or removable screen of the Mileseey, but they have a much more robust golf ecosystem that will be appealing to a lot of golfers. This is also the best value choice with a retail price that's $100 less than Mileseey.
The Good
- Excellent sound for a bluetooth speaker
- Accurate GPS yardages, with hazards included with no subscription
- AI and membership features are genuinely useful
The Bad
- Having an $80 membership if your only Blue Tees device is a speaker feels like a lot
- No removable screen
- App can still be a little overwhelming and buggy at times.
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