Garmin Approach S50 GPS Golf Watch
The Garmin Approach S50 Golf Watch combines vibrant design with advanced features, offering a stunning 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display for clear visibility of key yardages to the green, hazards, and layups on 43,000+ courses. Plan your shots with precise distances to the front, middle, and back of the green, while hazard view helps you navigate bunkers, water hazards, and layups. Enhance your game with a Garmin Golf membership, accessing enhanced CourseView maps, green contour data, PlaysLike Distance, and touch targeting for exact distances. The PlaysLike Distance feature adjusts yardages based on elevation changes and environmental conditions, ensuring accurate shot planning.
Preloaded activity profiles, including strength, yoga, and cardio, help improve your strength and mobility to hit the ball farther and avoid injuries. Health and wellness features, such as wrist-based heart rate, stress tracking, Body Battery™ energy monitoring, and advanced sleep tracking, provide a complete picture of your health so you can perform your best on and off the course. The Approach S50 is the ultimate companion for golfers looking to elevate their game and overall well-being.
Features
- Golfing features
- Preloaded with 43,000 courses worldwide
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
- Yardage to layups/doglegs
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)
- Digital scorecard
- Custom targets
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
- Garmin AutoShot™
- Auto CourseView updates
- Green View with manual pin position
- Hazards and course targets
- PinPointer
- PlaysLike distance
- Handicap scoring
- Swing Tempo
- Round timer/odometer
- Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
- CT1 Automatic Club Tracking Compatible (Requires Accessory)
- Pairs with Garmin Golf app
- Tournament legal
In The box
- Approach S50 GPS golf watch
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation
- Compatible with Garmin Golf App – Download App
Warranty
- 2 Year Warranty

COLOURFUL AND CAPABLE
The stunning 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display makes it easy to see key yardages to the green, hazards and layups on 43,000+ courses.

PLAN YOUR SHOT
Get distance to the front, middle and back of the green. Plus, navigate bunkers, water hazards and layups with hazard view.

ENHANCE YOUR GAME
With a Garmin Golf membership, get enhanced CourseView maps of every hole, green contour data, PlaysLike Distance and touch targeting for exact distance to any point on the hole.

PLAYSLIKE DISTANCE
Know how far each shot is truly playing with yardage adjusted for elevation changes as well as environmental conditions.

PRELOADED ACTIVITY PROFILES
Improve your strength and mobility with preloaded activity profiles for strength, yoga, cardio and more so you can hit the ball farther and prevent injuries.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS FEATURES
Get a more complete picture of your health with wrist-based heart rate, stress tracking, Body Battery™ energy monitoring, advanced sleep monitoring and more so you can perform your best on the course1.
Clock Features
- Time/date
- GPS time sync
- Automatic daylight saving time
- Alarm clock
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Sunrise/sunset times
Safety and tracking features
- Incident Detection during select activities
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables
- Assistance
- LiveTrack
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 Track Running, Trail 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
Daily smart features
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
- On-device Connect IQ™ Store
- Smart Notifications
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
- View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only)
- Morning report
- Calendar
- Weather forecasts
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile
- Controls smartphone music
- Plays and controls watch music
- Find my phone
- Find my watch
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
Health & Wellness Monitoring
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
- Daily Resting Heart Rate
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts Yes (high and low)
- Respiration Rate (24×7)
- Fitness Age
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
- All-day Stress
- Relaxation reminders
- Relaxation Breathing Timer
- Meditation
- Breathwork
- Sleep Yes (Advanced)
- Sleep coach
- Nap detection
- Hydration Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
- Women’s Health Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
- Health Snapshot
Training, planning and analysis features
- Customisable screen(s)
- Downloadable training plans
- HR Zones
- HR Alerts
- HR Calories
- % HR Max
- % HRR
- Recovery Time
- Auto Max HR
- HRV Status
- HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices)
- Respiration Rate (During Exercise) Yoga, breathwork and meditation only
- GPS speed and distance
- Auto Pause®
- Advanced workouts
- Auto Lap®
- Manual lap
- Configurable lap alerts
- VO2 Max (Run)
- VO2 Max (Trail Run)
- Touch and/or button lock
Cycling features
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
- 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)
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
- Auto rest (pool swim only)
- Time and distance alerts
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate