The Approach S44 and Approach S50 are the two new additions to Garmin‘s popular golf smartwatch lineup. Garmin is well recognized for making some of the best golf watches on the market, so I was intrigued to see how their Approach S44 performed out on the golf course.
The S44 is a feature-packed watch, featuring a slim, lightweight build and essential tools for golfers looking to improve their game. Equipped with crisp, 1.2-inch colour AMOLED displays, the new smartwatches include preloaded maps of more than 43,000 golf courses and key golf features like hazard view and distance to the front, middle and back of the green to help players hit the right club.
Like the best golf GPS devices, this is a mini caddy to add to your wrist to help plan your next shot, be that navigating a bunker or hazard or receiving help on which club to choose at the right time. This watch also doubles up as a smartwatch that you can wear off the course, albeit without the many health features that are included with the premium Approach S70.
What I like about Garmin is that it lets the quality of its products do the talking. Rarely is there a lot of fuss when unboxing one of its products or any additional bells and whistles – instead, it’s almost a bit of an anti-climatic feeling when I unboxed the S44. That isn’t a criticism by the way, rather a testament to how a brand is focusing on the important things – the quality of the product.
After removing the watch from the plain but effective packaging I began using it straight away. It came with a full charge which was helpful, although the strap was very rigid for my first few days of use which impacted the comfort and ease of use. This thankfully loosened after a few days but you might struggle to adjust it to your liking at the very beginning.
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My first few days wearing the watch did not feature a day on the golf course but rather me using the watch as an everyday smart watch. Connecting my phone to the S44 allowed me to keep a track of my phone notifications on my wrist, check the time, weather, daylight hours, my step count and change my music whilst in the gym and away from my phone. I’m not a massive fan of phone notifications arriving on my wrist, but the Garmin watch allows you to choose which notifications do and don’t arrive to the S44 which I found a valuable feature.
I then took this watch to it’s natural playground to see how it performed – the golf course….
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