Overview
Explore the premium golf GPS smartwatch featuring a high-resolution AMOLED display, 43,000+ preloaded courses, auto shot tracking, hazard view, and virtual caddie insights to improve your game. Lightweight & stylish for all-day wear.
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 - Cream Gold | Product Code: 010-03010-01 |
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 |