Garmin Approach S12, Easy-to-Use GPS Golf Watch, 42k+ Preloaded Courses, Black, 010-02472-00

I’ve been golfing a long time. I don’t know why I never had one of these gps golf watches? It’s rare I would say “it’s a game changer” for things. But I gotta say after researching golf watches and come upon this one in particular I’m sold. To the S12 now, I’m not a stranger to electronic devices we all have them. However on a golf course while playing it needs to be: easy to use and navigate through functions, easy to read in rainy or sunny conditions with a lot of glare, accuracy is key also looks and feels good wearing it along with tough durability. Definitely all of these things and more. I played my first 18 (pouring rain first 4 holes) with it after getting accustomed to the functions and being familiar enough to actually use it. I was thrilled with the performance and ease of use. Funny I only somewhat generally knew how far I was hitting each club.. now I know for sure. Big help cutting scores just that alone. On only two holes I noticed it didn’t move to next.. so I manually kicked over to next hole pretty easily. On another that was close to last green as well.. just walked over to tee box and it flipped automatically easy peezy. If that’s a negative thing I’ll take that all day every day no problems here. All in all I’m super happy with the S12 from seller to fast delivery to actual accuracy and simplicity of use it’s been a very good purchase. Hopefully I get even better at using it’s functions and that it holds up for a long time. In closing you can spend a lot more on a gps golf watch for sure. So far this seems to be well worth the money. I can pretty much guarantee you won’t have to ask anyone for yardages again. It does enough and well enough in my book not to be a major distraction and balances high tech and useful features to up your game and joy of playing golf.

Watch is very light looks nice distance is very accurate . I like it can charge in only a couple of hours.Takes a little while to get use to the selection process but after a while very easy to use/

Great IMPROVEMENT over the S10 Approach watch. It's worth the extra money. Having said that, it is clear that Garmin could use some advice from users on how to improve their features. Still too difficult to easily locate distance to hazard or from hazard to hole. Users will find that it is not intuitively designed. Kinda wonky. GPS works reasonably well. Much easier to view in sunlight than the S10. Much, much better battery life than the S10.

Garmin products always work like a champ and the price was right.

Very reflective and easy to see in the sun. Light and not bulky. Takes 1 to 2 minutes to get go's signal 1st time but then it's very accurate on course and simple to use so it doesn't distract me during the game. Battery is great, after a 3.5 hr round it still had a 90% charge and bluetooth was on to connect to garmin phone app. Absolutely love it and would buy again.Update: syill working and if just using as eatch with bluetooth and gps off it lasts a long time its been 2 weeks and still shows almost full charge. I giess thats the benefit of a watch that only does 1 thing i.e. golf and not all the smart watch features I don’t need, my phone does that stuff.

I bought this for my husband and he loves it. He says that it is easy to operate when playing and gives all the necessary information while he is playing a round of golf. Loaded with many features that helps him score better too.

Still learning how to work it. The watch is very accurate.

Garmin golf watch does the job. I'm only disappointed that by changing from my old watch (approach-garmin) to this one, it no longer tracks my shot locations. It did that for no extra cost with the old watch.I would have to buy the CT10 golf club accessories for a lot more money to get those shots registered. So I'm losing statistics like average drive distances. I understand why Garmin went this way, since players can get a lot more detail about all their club distances. I could pay significantly more for the CT10s but I'm not going to do that. Thus the drop off of one star for this watch.Just on the merits of this watch, I like the functionality of it as it matches with what I had before in the Approach S20. Very similar functionality. Distances to hazards is a big plus, along with distances to layup (e.g. 120 yards to get to the 150 yard marker). Keeps score, along with number of putts and whether or not you hit the fairway. Band durability seems solid.In short, if you're looking for a golf watch that helps you play a round without taking the time to mess with a rangefinder, I highly recommend this Garmin watch. Just don't expect to have shot locations without the CT10s, otherwise you'll be disappointed.UPDATE: While battery life is great, yardage calculations are inaccurate at times. Very frustrating. Garmin customer service couldn't provide any wisdom as to why. Dropping this rating to 3 stars because of this key feature issue.