Garmin Launches Flagship Golf Smartwatch 'Approach S72' to Advance Swing and Putting Analysis
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Garmin launched its flagship golf smartwatch, 'Approach S72,' which enhances both golf performance analysis and everyday usability.
The product provides golf biometric data, wrist-based swing metrics, Green Reading and course approach features, and integration with the Garmin Golf and Garmin Connect apps.
Approach S72 comes in 43 mm and 47 mm sizes, and the 47 mm model offers up to 20 hours on the golf course and up to 16 days when GPS is not used.
Garmin launched its flagship golf smartwatch, 'Approach S72,' which enhances both golf performance analysis and everyday usability. 'Approach S72' is a model that strengthens golf performance analysis functions as well as daily usability.
'Approach S72' provides golf biometrics, wrist-based swing metrics, green approach data, putting analysis, and full-round data. Through this, it is designed to help users check objective numbers on their playing condition and use that information to improve performance. It also comes with a range of analysis features.
In particular, it provides golf biometric data, including real-time heart rate, so users can check heart rate changes before and after shots. It also offers wrist-measured hand speed, wrist-measured backswing length, and wrist rotation metrics, supporting data-driven swing checks. This approach differs from swing checks that rely on feel.
The product strengthens green and course approach features to support putting decisions and shot strategy. It offers 'Green Reading' based on green slope data and shows the direction the ball will break and the average slope rate when putting. This can be used to identify the putting line and determine an aiming point. It also uses aerial images to help users approach the course and lets them view the actual hole layout. Users can review the next shot area and layup points, which helps them build situation-specific course strategies.
After a round, users can check putting-related data through the Garmin Golf app. In the app, they can review putting speed, directional bias, and success rates. During driving range activities, swing metrics can be tracked, along with individual swing tendencies.
Practice records are saved in the Garmin Connect app. As a result, users can manage practice records and fitness data together.
On the hardware side, Approach S72 features an AMOLED display. The product is available in two sizes, 43 mm and 47 mm, and comes with a ComfortFit fabric band, a lightweight titanium bezel, and a sapphire lens. This configuration is intended to reduce wearing strain during rounds and enhance durability.
Garmin's new golf smartwatch is the first Garmin golf smartwatch to include a built-in speaker and microphone. When connected to a compatible smartphone, the product supports watch calls and voice commands. It also features an LED flashlight that supports white and red light, allowing users to look for golf gear in dark environments or use it as ambient lighting.
The product also offers everyday health management features. It supports wrist-based heart rate measurement, stress tracking, Body Battery energy monitoring, and advanced sleep monitoring. It also comes with a range of exercise profiles built in, making it usable not only for golf but also for strength and mobility training logs.
Battery life, based on the 47 mm model, supports up to 20 hours on the golf course. When GPS is not used, it can last up to 16 days.
To mark the new product launch, Garmin is rolling out marketing efforts to expand contact with golfers. On October 31, Garmin will hold a 'Garmin Zone event' at Malsong-ri CC, offering prize entry opportunities to customers who land their tee shots in the Garmin Zone on the No. 1 fairway. The raffle prizes are Approach S72 and Garmin merchandise. In addition, it will operate an experience zone for key Garmin golf products inside the starter house.
Garmin Asia plans to hold a 'Garmin Golf Club (GGC) Gathering Event' in Bangkok, Thailand, from November 10 to 12. The event will involve 9 countries: Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, and the Philippines, and participants will consist of GGC coach KPGA pro Jang Seong-hoon and key members. The event will include product experiences and networking.
Garmin also explained the technical characteristics and features of Approach S72. Susan Lyman, Garmin's vice president of global consumer sales and marketing, said Approach S72 combines next-generation golf technology to help golfers better understand their play. She also said it provides performance-improvement insights based on biometric data, swing metrics, and advanced golf features, while also including smartwatch functions for everyday use.
Approach S72 will go on sale on Garmin's official website starting on the 14th.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Kyung-joo
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407935
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