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General
Colorful And Capable
The stunning 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display makes it easy to see key yardages to the green, hazards and layups on 43,000+ courses.
Plan Your Shot
Get distance to the front, middle and back of the green. Plus, navigate bunkers, water hazards and layups with hazard view.
Enhance Your Game
With a Garmin Golf membership, get enhanced CourseView maps of every hole, green contour data, PlaysLike Distance and touch targeting for exact distance to any point on the hole.
Playslike Distance
Know how far each shot is truly playing with yardage adjusted for elevation changes.
Preloaded Activity Profiles
Improve your strength and mobility with preloaded activity profiles for strength, yoga, cardio and more so you can hit the ball farther and prevent injuries
Health And Welllness Features
Get a more complete picture of your health with wrist-based heart rate, stress tracking, Body Battery™ energy monitoring, advanced sleep monitoring and more so you can perform your best on the course1.
Health Features
Body battery energy monitoring
Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest3.
HRV status
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, stress and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep.
Morning report
Get a customizable overview of your sleep, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up.
Nap detection
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and the ideal time and duration they should be.
Pulse OX Sensor
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep
Wrist based heart rate
The Approach S50 smartwatch constantly samples your heart rate, so you can stay in the know all day and night
Stress tracking
See if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
Meditation
Help reduce stress, anxiety and more with guided meditation practices.
Lifestyle logging
Log behaviors — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect™ app
Mindful breathing
Start a breathwork activity to track your stress and respiration.
Womens health tracking
Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education.
Hydration
Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated.
Body battery
Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest.
Fitness age
Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.
Garmin coach
Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach adaptive or prebuilt training plans.
Workout creation
Create step-by-step workouts from more than 1,600 exercises in the Garmin Connect app, and send them directly to your watch.
VO2Max
See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more (not available in wheelchair mode).
Play
43,000 Preloaded courses
Your watch comes preloaded with more than 43,000 color maps of golf courses around the world. Get enhanced full-color CourseView maps with a Garmin Golf membership
Club tracking
Pair with optional Approach® CT1 club tracking tags or Approach CT10 club tracking sensors (both sold separately) for shot-tracking capabilities and a clearer picture of your game.
Go green
Quickly reference distances to the front, middle and back of the green so you have all the data you need for the perfect shot.
Connect
Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your smartwatch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
Music
Download songs plus playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
Garmin Pay
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers..
Battery lifee
Get up to 10 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 15 hours in GPS mode.
What You'll Love
Sleep score and insights
Yes
Battery life (smartwatch mode)
Up to 10 days
Pulse Ox blood oxygen
yes (spot-check and optionally in sleep)
Garmin Pay™
Yes
Music storage
Yes
Watch display type
AMOLED (always-on)
Touchscreen
Yes
Watch water rating
5 ATM
General
Strap material
ComfortFit nylon band
Lens Material
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
Quick release bands
Yes
Physical Size
43 x 43 x 11.4 mm
Weight
29 g
Display Size
1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
Display Resolution
390 x 390 pixels
Colour Display
Yes
Large font option
Yes
Battery Life
Smartwatch: Up to 10 days
GPS Mode Up to 15 hours (using default display settings: gesture wake-up in Smartwatch mode and always-on while golfing)
Charging Method
Garmin proprietary plug charger
Memory/History
4 GB
Clock Features
Time/Date
Yes
GPS Time Sync
Yes
Automatic Daylight Savings Time
Yes
Alarm Clock
Yes
Timer
Yes
Stopwatch
Yes
Sunrise/Sunset Times
Yes
Sensors
GPS
Yes
Glonass
Yes
Galileo
Yes
Garmin Elevate Wrist Heart Rate Monitor
Yes
Barometric Altimeter
Yes
Compass
Yes
Gyroscope
Yes
Accelerometer
Yes
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor
Yes
Health Monitoring
Wrist-based HR
Yes
Daily Resting HR
Yes
Abnormal HR Alerts
Yes (high and low)
Respiration Rate (24x7)
Yes
Fitness Age
Yes
Body Battery Energy Monitoring
Yes
All-Day Stress
Yes
Relaxation Breathing Timer
Yes
Relaxation reminders/Breathing timer
Yes
Meditation and Breathwork
Yes
Hydration
Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
Women's Health
Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
Health Snapshot
Yes
Daily Smart Features
Connectivity
Bluetooth®, ANT+®
Connect IQ (widgets, Data, Faces)
Yes
Smart Notifications
Yes
Text Response/Reject Phone Call With Text
Yes, Android only
Calendar & Weather
Yes
Realtime Settings Sync with Garmin Connect Mobile
Yes
View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only)
Yes
Morning report
Yes
Controls Smartphone Music
Yes
Find my Phone/Watch
Yes
Smartphone compatibility
iPhone®, Android™
Garmin Pay
Yes
Safety And Tracking
Livetrack
Yes
Assistance
Yes
Incident Detection During Select Activities
Yes
Incident detection alert on phone for wearables
Yes
Activity Tracking
Step Counter
Yes
Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity)
Yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Yes
Calories Burned
Yes
Distance Travelled
Yes
Intensity Minutes
Yes
TrueUp
Yes
Move IQ
Yes
Garmin Connect Challenges App
Yes (optional connect IQ App)
Activity Profiles
Gym
Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing
Wellness
Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking
Running
Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running
Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running, Obstacle Racing, Adventure Racing
Outdoor
Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Rucking, Mountaineering, Expedition, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery
Cycling
Biking, Indoor Biking
Water
Pool Swimming
Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking
Racket sports
Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
Snow & winter
Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Snowshoeing
Team sports
Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
In the ring
Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts
Running Features
GPS based distance, time and pace
Yes
Cadence (Provides Real-Time Number Of Steps Per Minute)
Yes
Training, Planing & Analysis Features
HR Zones
Yes
HR Alerts
Yes
HR Calories
Yes
%HRR and %HR Max
Yes
Recovery Time
Yes
Auto Max HR
Yes
Morning Report
Yes
HRV Status
Yes
Respiration Rate (during exercise)
Yes
GPS Speed And Distance
Yes
Advanced Workouts
Yes
Auto and Manual Lap
Yes
Configurable Lap Alerts
Yes
VO2 Max (Run & Trail Run)
Yes
Training Status and Load
Yes
Golfing Features
Preloaded with 43,000 courses worldwide
Yes
Yardage To F/M/B (Distance To Front, Middle, And Back Of Green)
Yes
Yardage To Layups/Doglegs
Yes
Measures Shot Distance (Calculates Exact Yardage For Shots From Anywhere On Course)
manual
Digital Scorecard
Yes
Stat Tracking (Strokes, Putts Per Round, Greens And Fairways Hit)
Yes
Garmin Autoshot
Yes
Auto Courseview Updates
Yes
Green View With Manual Pin Position
Yes
Hazards And Course Targets
Yes
Round Timer/Odometer
Yes
Automatic Club Tracking Compatible (requires accessory)
Yes
Pairs with Garmin Golf App
Yes
Tournament Legal
Yes
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Approach S50 GPS golf watch
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Charging/data cable
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Documentation
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