Any sort of screen saver app?

I have the iphone 3g and am an avid golfer. I have the Golf Logix golf gps on my iphone (for yardages, etc). And they recommend leaving the phone on and dimming the screen while you play so it doesnt have to recalculate every time you go into the app.
I'm wondering if theres any way to have the screen go dim or just the screen itself shut off during the inbetween time usage instead of locking it with the top button. During a round of golf the battery goes dead leaving it on the whole time. Even if I dim the screen below half and turn auto brightness off.
I don't know if theres a way to do it through the settings but just curious if anyone knows of an app that would do it like a computer screen where you just touch it and it comes back. Sort of like when its dimming before the screen locks.

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