Garmin Approach S50 GPS Golf Smart Watch

Bright and Colorful 1.2-Inch AMOLED Display

The vibrant 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display ensures clear visibility of yardages, hazards, and layups across over 43,000 preloaded golf courses.

43,000+ Preloaded Courses

Access a vast library of detailed course maps, providing you with essential insights for strategic gameplay worldwide.

PlaysLike Distance

Take the guesswork out of elevation changes with yardages adjusted to reflect how far each shot is truly playing.

Preloaded Activity Profiles

Stay fit and improve your game with activity profiles for strength training, yoga, cardio, and more, helping you increase distance and reduce the risk of injuries.

Health and Wellness Features

Monitor your overall health with wrist-based heart rate tracking, stress levels, Body Battery™ energy monitoring, and advanced sleep tracking, ensuring peak performance on the course.

Clock Features:

• Time/date
• GPS Time Sync
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Alarm clock
• Timer
• Stopwatch
• Sunrise/sunset times

Health & Wellness Monitoring:

• Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
• Daily resting heart rate
• Abnormal heart rate alerts
• Respiration rate (24x7)
• Fitness age
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• All-day stress
• Relaxation reminders
• Relaxation breathing timer
• Meditation
• Breathwork
• Sleep (advanced)
• Sleep coach
• Nap detection
• Hydration (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
• Women's health (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
• Health snapshot

Sensors:

• GPS
• GLONASS
• Galileo
• Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Ambient light sensor

Daily Smart Features:

• Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® Connectivity
• 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
• Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
• Smartphone compatibility

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
• Team Sports: Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, 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
• Incident detection alert on phone for wearables
• Assistance
• LiveTrack

Activity Tracking Features:

• Step counter
• Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity)
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned
• Floors climbed
• Distance traveled
• Intensity minutes
• TrueUp™
• Move IQ™
• Garmin Connect™ Challenges app (optional Connect IQ app)

Gym & Fitness Equipment:

• Cardio workouts
• Strength workouts
• HIIT workouts
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• On-screen workout animations
• On-screen workout muscle maps
• Automatic rep counting

Training, Planning and Analysis Features:

• Customizable data pages
• 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 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

Running Features:

• GPS-based distance, time and pace
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
• Run workouts

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
• CT10 & CT1 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
• Pairs with Garmin Golf app
• Tournament legal (with tournament mode enabled)

Cycling Features:

• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
• Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor - 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