Overview
Upgrade your golf game with the Garmin Approach S50, a premium GPS smartwatch featuring a stunning AMOLED display, 43,000+ preloaded courses, advanced shot tracking, and health monitoring. Stay on top of your swing with precise yardages, hazard views, and smartwatch features for daily wear. Perfect for golfers who demand accuracy and style.
Key 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: green true-shape view, pinpointer directions, hazards view with distances
- Wrist-based heart rate, electronic compass, accelerometer, gryoscope, ambient light sensor
- Includes activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, outdoors as well as fitness tracking
- Preloaded activities profiles for strength, yoga, and cardio
- Includes stress tracking, body battery energy monitoring, hydration tracking and sleep score and analysis
- Monitor overall fitness levels using wrist-based heart rate, HRV status and VO2 Max
- Includes music download, smart notifications and contactless payments
- Comprehensive sports apps and health monitoring features
- Smart notifications: texts, emails, alerts and social media
- Customisable with downloadable apps, widgets, watch faces
Difference between Approach S50 and Approach S44
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 S50 GPS Golf Smartwatch - Black | Product Code: 010-03010-00 |
What You'll Love | |
Sleep Score and Insights | yes |
Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 10 days |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | Yes (spot-check and optionally in sleep) |
Garmin Pay | yes |
Music storage | yes |
Watch display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
Touchscreen | yes |
Water rating | 5 ATM |
General | |
Strap material | ComfortFit nylon band |
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 S/M version fits wrists with a circumference of 127-190 mm (Ivory) M/L version fits wrists with a circumference of 145-217 mm (Black) |
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 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 |
Health & Wellness Monitoring | |
Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | yes |
Daily Resting Heart Rate | yes |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
Respiration Rate (24x7) | yes |
Fitness Age | yes |
Body Battery Energy Monitor | yes |
All-day Stress | yes |
Relaxation reminders | yes |
Relaxation Breathing Timer | yes |
Meditation | yes |
Breathwork | yes |
Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
Sleep coach | yes |
Nap detection | 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 |
Sensors | |
GPS | yes |
GLONASS | yes |
Galileo | yes |
Compass | yes |
Gyroscope | yes |
Accelerometer | yes |
Ambient light sensor | yes |
Daily smart features | |
Connectivity | BLUETOOTH, ANT+, Wi-Fi |
Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | yes |
On-device Connect IQ Store | yes |
Smart Notifications | yes |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only) | yes |
View images from notifications on watch (Android only) | yes |
Morning report | yes |
Calendar | yes |
Weather forecasts | yes |
Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile | yes |
Controls smartphone music | yes |
Plays and controls watch music | yes |
Find my phone | yes |
Find my watch | yes |
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | yes |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
Activity profiles | |
Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing |
WELLNESS | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking |
INDOOR RUNNING | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running |
Outdoor running | Running |
Outdoor recreation | Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Golfing |
Cycling | Biking, Mountain Biking, Indoor Biking |
Swim | Pool Swimming |
On the water | 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 |
Sport profiles | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
In the ring | Boxing, Mixed martial arts |
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 |
Floors climbed | yes |
Distance travelled | yes |
Intensity minutes | yes |
TrueUp | yes |
Move IQ | yes |
Garmin Connect Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Fitness equipment/gym | |
Cardio workouts | yes |
Strength workouts | yes |
HIIT workouts | yes |
Yoga workouts | yes |
Pilates workouts | yes |
On-screen workout animations | yes |
On-Screen Workout Muscle Map | yes |
Automatic rep counting | yes |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
Customisable screen(s) | yes |
Downloadable training plans | yes |
HR Zones | yes |
HR Alerts | yes |
HR Calories | yes |
% HR Max | yes |
% HRR | yes |
Recovery Time | yes |
Auto Max HR | yes |
HRV Status | yes |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) | yes |
Respiration Rate (During Exercise) | Yoga, breathwork and meditation only |
GPS speed and distance | yes |
Auto Pause | yes |
Advanced workouts | yes |
Auto Lap | yes |
Manual lap | yes |
Configurable lap alerts | yes |
VO2 Max (Run) | yes |
VO2 Max (Trail Run) | 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 |
Run workouts | 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 |
PlaysLike distance | 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 |
Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | Yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
Swimming features | |
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | yes |
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | yes |
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | yes |
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | yes |
Auto rest (pool swim only) | yes |
Time and distance alerts | yes |
Underwater wrist-based heart rate | yes |