Overview
A sleek golf GPS smartwatch featuring a vivid AMOLED touchscreen, 43,000+ courses, AutoShot tracking, and precise hazard views. It caters to golfers seeking essential on-course features without additional health tracking functionalities.
Key Features
- For golfers seeking essenital core on-course golf features
- Premium high-res 1.2" vibrant AMOLED colour touchscreen display
- Lightweight 43mm case with aluminium bezel
- Battery life: up to 10 days in smartwatch mode, 15 hours in GPS mode
- Multi-band GNSS - GPS, GLONASS and Galileo - for improved positioning accuracy
- Precise FMB distances for more than 43,000 international courses; including Irish courses
- Enhanced Courseview and green contour data available through active Garmin Golf membership
- Playslike distance feature with yardage adjusted for elevation/environmental changes
- Golf features include: pinpointer directions, hazards view with distances
- Electronic compass, accelerometer, gryoscope, ambient light sensor
- Includes basic activity profiles for running and cycling
- Smart notifications: texts, emails, alerts and social media
Difference between Approach S44 and Approach S50
Approach S50 includes the following:
- Wrist-based heart rate monitoring
- Comprehensive health and fitness tracking capabilities
- Preloaded activity profiles for yoga, cardio and health tracking
- Activity profiles for running, cycling, swimmming, and outdoors
- Sleep and stress tracking
- Body battery energy monitoring
- Fitness age estimation
- Women's health tracking
- Includes music download, and contactless payments
Technical Specification
Garmin Approach S44 GPS Golf Smartwatch - Black | Product Code: 010-03009-00 |
What You'll Love | |
Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 10 days |
Watch display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
Touchscreen | yes |
Water rating | 5 ATM |
General | |
Strap material | Silicone |
Lens material | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
Bezel material | Anodised aluminium |
Quick release bands | Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
Physical size | 43 x 43 x 11.4 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 125-202 mm |
Weight | 42 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 mode: 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 saving time | yes |
Alarm clock | yes |
Timer | yes |
Stopwatch | yes |
Sunrise/sunset times | yes |
Sensors | |
GPS | yes |
GLONASS | yes |
Galileo | yes |
Compass | yes |
Gyroscope | yes |
Accelerometer | yes |
Ambient light sensor | yes |
Daily smart features | |
Connectivity | BLUETOOTH LE |
Smart Notifications | yes |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only) | yes |
View images from notifications on watch (Android only) | yes |
Calendar | yes |
Weather forecasts | yes |
Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile | yes |
Controls smartphone music | yes |
Find my phone | yes |
Find my watch | yes |
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | yes |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
Activity profiles | |
INDOOR RUNNING | Indoor Track Running |
Outdoor running | Running |
Outdoor recreation | Golfing |
Cycling | Biking, Indoor Biking |
Safety and tracking features | |
Incident Detection during select activities | yes |
Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | yes |
Assistance | yes |
LiveTrack | yes |
Activity tracking features | |
Step counter | yes |
Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | 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 |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
Customisable screen(s) | yes |
GPS speed and distance | yes |
Auto Pause | yes |
Auto Lap | yes |
Touch and/or button lock | yes |
Running features | |
GPS-based distance, time and pace | yes |
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | 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) | yes |
Digital scorecard | yes |
Custom targets | 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 |
PinPointer | yes |
Handicap scoring | yes |
Swing Tempo | yes |
Round timer/odometer | yes |
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | yes |
CT1 Automatic Club Tracking Compatible (Requires Accessory) | yes |
Pairs with Garmin Golf app | yes |
Tournament legal | Yes (with Tournament Mode enabled) |
Cycling features | |
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | yes |