Garmin Approach S42, Gps Golf Smartwatch, Lightweight With 1.2 Touchscreen, 42k+ Preloaded Courses,
Garmin Approach S42, GPS Golf Smartwatch, Lightweight with 1.2 Touchscreen, 42k+ Preloaded Courses, Gunmetal Ceramic Bezel and Black Silicone Band, 010-02572-10
- Battery life: up to 15 hours in GPS mode, and up to 10 days in smartwatch mode
- 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
- The AutoShot round analyzer measures and auto-records detected shot distances distances (lie and ball contact may affect shot tracking) and pairs with optional Approach CT10 club tracking sensors (sold separately) for more automatic game tracking capabilities
- Offers smart notifications (when paired with a compatible smartphone) and estimated activity-tracking features such as steps, sleep and built-in sports profiles
- Pair with the Garmin Golf app (when downloaded on a compatible smartphone) for live scoring, automatic scorecard uploads and to review all your stats in one place
- More than 42,000 CourseView maps preloaded from around the world
Brand : Garmin
Category : Electronics,GPS, Finders & Accessories,Sports & Handheld GPS,Golf Course GPS Units
Rating : 4.5
ListPrice : US $299.99
Price : US $249.99
Review Count : 871
ChildASIN : B08X167FJG,B09L4ZJYD5,B08X1SGJNZ,B08X1SP29P,B09WMH6DLX,B09MSKGQLN,B09L52D63D
Garmin Approach S42, GPS Golf Smartwatch, Lightweight with 1.2 Touchscreen, 42k+ Preloaded Courses, Gunmetal Ceramic Bezel and Black Silicone Band, 010-02572-10
- I purchased this golf watch for is functionally and looks. It is a great watch. It is so nice I even wear it everyday. This watch is easy to use. If you set it up for scoring, at the end of each hole it will beep to remind you to enter your score. Enter strokes, putts, penalties. You can also see on each hole where the distance bunkers, hazards and water are from where you stand. When you are done, the watch uploads your score data to the Garmin app and you can see where you hit each shot on each hole. Really nice feature. You can receive text and see phone calls on this watch. Also has an odometer feature. The battery does not run down quickly. Love this watch.
- These great watches are making rangefinders redundant
- I\'m a professional caddie, and need a reliable, accurate GPS watch which doesn\'t go wonky during my loop. Although this is the most accurate of the 4 or 5 Golf GPS watches I\'ve owned, it also has some annoying quirks. Here\'s my list of Pro and Con attributes of the Garmin Approach S42:Pro:1. The Approach S42 is by far the most accurate of any GPS watch I\'ve ever used. I\'ve compared yardages to both sprinkler head and laser rangefinder readings, and it\'s dead on. This is especially helpful when I\'m caddying at someplace other than my home course for a USGA tournament or qualifier. During a practice round, I can make notes in my yardage book knowing that the distances are 100% good.2. I\'m able to caddie for 36 consecutive holes and still have plenty of battery charge left.3. The readout is very visible in every light condition, and the graphics are razor sharp.4. The watch band is comfortable and fits over shirt, pullover, and rain jacket sleeves.CON:1. Initial Set-Up was a painful experience. Included instruction manual isn\'t well-written, and lacks sufficient detail.2. This watch is NOT good during a rainy golf round, unless set to lock screen all the time. When worn under the sleeve of my rain jacket, the GPS signal is blocked, and it starts defaulting to weird screens, like a close-up of the green when I\'m still 200 yards out. Even worse, I have a heck of a time getting the watch to go back to the regular yardages screen. When I wear it outside of my jacket sleeve, the raindrops cause the touchscreen to change randomly. I\'ve had to set the watch to automatically lock during the round, which makes it slow to display yardages to hazards...but that doesn\'t matter much, as I explain below.3. I\'m not a fan of the way this watch shows distances to hazards, as it includes bunkers, etc, on adjacent fairways which aren\'t in play. I\'ve stopped using this feature as a result, instead relying on my yardage book and laser sighting, or memory on my home course.4. I wish that this watch showed the time on the screen during the round. It\'s a pain to switch screens, when all I need is a quick glance to see how our group\'s pace of play is going. Plus sometimes when I switch to another screen, it won\'t go back to the regular yardage screen.5. The Bluetooth linkage with my computer and mobile phone was erratic, randomly choosing to display text message or email alerts sometimes, and then nothing 5 minutes later. I have noticed improvement after I switched to a higher-end iPhone with a lot more memory and battery capacity. To be honest, this isn\'t an essential feature for me.Bottom Line: If there was a way to have this GPS watch\'s amazing accuracy, easily-readable face, and comfortable band without all of the not-so-helpful features, plus display the time during the round, and work effectively in stormy weather, I\'d be a happy caddie! (NOTE: I\'ve owned lower-end models of Garmin golf GPS watches, and they\'ve lacked the outstanding accuracy of this model. I\'m willing to put up with the quirks, because precise yardages are much more important than anything else to me.)
- I ended up returning the watch because of a few problems. First, the good.... It uses very little battery. You can definitely get three rounds of golf in on a single charge (about 25% per round, so a fourth round would push it), and the color screen is great compared to my old Approach S20. There are three problems I have with the watch: 1. For a right-handed player like me, the button on the side is easily pushed by the bending of the wrist during the golf swing, so it puts you in the menu inadvertently. 2. About 3-4 times per round, it won\'t record a swing, especially a drive. I don\'t know if it\'s just my particular watch or this model, but I keep golf stats including driving distance, and I have to guess at it sometimes. 3. There are times when certain hazards won\'t show up in the hazard list, and it doesn\'t always show the start and end of each hazard like the S20 did. I\'ve decided I\'m going with the S62 which shows the entire hole and seems to be more consistent capturing swings.
- Fits good, works great, good information. Love it so far!Good watch for golfers.
- The battery drains kinda quickly when Bluetooth is connected, I can only get in 2 18 hole games without charging.It\'s hard to see the face/numbers if it\'s sunny out.It\'s stylish & the band is comfortable.I do recommend this nice mid-level golf watch
- It takes a bit of time to find satellites
- This is a big upgrade from my S20. Touch feature, colored screen, you can select a club and it saves the distances for each club during your round. You can then view all your stats for the round on your PC. Shows a hole by hole picture with all your shot locations and distances per each shot. Very nice feature.
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