GPS Golf Smartwatch, the Stylish Garmin Approach S40
The Approach S40 GPS golf smartwatch with color touchscreen looks great on your wrist and on the course. It shows distances to the front, middle and back of the green, hazards and automatically records detected shot distances (lie and ball contact may affect shot tracking).
- Stylish lightweight GPS golf watch with a sunlight-readable 1 2” color touchscreen display with metal bezel and quick release bands for easy change of style or color
- Preloaded with more than 41 000 courses from around the world
- Measures and auto-records detected shot distances putts are not tracked and some other shots such as chips around the green may not be tracked pair with optional Approach CT10
- Green View feature allows manual pin positioning quickly reference distances to the front middle and back of the green as well as hazards and doglegs
- Tracks everyday activities such as steps sleep and includes built-in multisport profiles
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David Alvarez –
This is not a review on the product but a review on the listing. I bought this “bundle” listed as including the Black S40 with 2 additional CT10 attachments. I received a Silver S40… no CT10 attachments.
Nicholas A Young –
I have had other Garmin golf watches in the past and this one is the best by far! It works as a smart watch and tracks activity as well as works with the Garmin Sensors. The GPS has been great and hasn’t had any problems even on a cloudy day. No problems finding a course yet either. Love it!
Elwin Phillips –
I charged it up and left it for a week, and when I went to use it, the battery was dead, I am going to charge it up again, to try it next weekend hopefully it will work for me.
Jared –
For a $300 dollar watch I am very disappointed. This watch has the quality and software of a decent 100 dollar watch. The notifications from the phone are spotty at best. I have a Samsung Galaxy S8, a very common phone, and I hardly ever get call notifications on the watch, even after giving it all the permissions it requested, and verifying it against half a dozen videos online. Constantly loses connections to the phone even though they are 3 feet apart. I called support and they quickly brushed me away, wouldn’t listen to my experience and just told me to update the watch. Having updated it, it is no different than before. I haven’t had the ability to test the golf functionality yet, however if it is like the rest of my experiences with the watch, I will be returning it for a refund. I am very disappointed in this watch, and expected better quality in a $300 watch.
Gary –
The screen would freeze during the round on the photo shown. The only thing I could do was hold the on button until it shut off, then restart. At this point, instead of being a help, it became a distraction. After it happened on 18, I sent it back.
Amadeus –
I can’t hardly described how pleasantly surprised I was with how AWESOME this is! I’ve been using a really great mobile app (TheGrint) which I love, but was curious about how this watch might do things passively that I have to enter in a mobile app (like FIR, shot distance). I played one round with this and was amazed with how accurately it captured when I was in the fairway and club distance. Hazard and layout distances are incredibly easy to use and the display is very easy to read even in bright sunlight. Honestly, this is so damn fun! Buy this!
Soph –
I bought this as a gift for my husband to replace a previous Garmin golf watch. His previous watch still works but the band broke and is not replaceable(boo!). He wears this new one often, not just on the golf course. He uses it to track his biking and walking routes. He likes the touch face feature. Also the battery life is really great.
lisa byrne –
The watch is great and very stylish but it has never synced with any phone. Unfortunately Garmin customer service, after logging complaint and uploading logs through my laptop, they never responded and remains unresolved
John P –
I bought this for my wife. I use Arccos sensors and app. My wife wanted something that would work similarly. The issue is, it doesn’t do a very good job of picking up your swing. And its hard to use. You have to sit down and spend a lot of time trying to figure it out, and there aren’t any clear concise instructions or even any how to videos on youtube. So basically your left wasting two or three games of golf on a course you paid for, messing with the thing. Oh and the battery life kinda sucks. The additional features like the things that are supposed to count steps and such are useless, as they don’t use any actual sensors to determine if your really walking like a pedometer would. Instead they just go by GPS distance, so you take a ride in your car and it says you walked 20k steps…Anyway, though these have a ton of great reviews for being a neat “gadget” I don’t find it to be of any actual value on the golf course. There are a ton of phone apps out there that are way cheaper and do the same thing. Its just not worth the money.