Garmin Golf 4+

Best Watch ever and it’s amazing for golf

Really good, no great golf watch a must for anyone who is keen to see improvement monitor the stats in an easy format. I really write this watch first class. The only issue I would like to reset the information on the sensors as I had a few issues at the start until I got used to them. I.e. Driver 450 yards, which clearly is incorrect, but I don’t want to reset it all and lose all the data if you could work on that as an improvement, it would be perfect. I can use the watch for walking cycling. You name it running is a great watch and the battery life is amazing.

App stats and club tracking is poor

For me the watch is great and the tags work well. The issue for me is the golf app is really poor for what is one of the most expensive systems on the market. The tracking of clubs is way out because it counts shots you do around the green with irons, lots of chips with an 8i 9i etc, it shouldn’t count these as it messes up the distance for a normal shot. The card at the end of the round does not give you much info, would be nice to have total for hole, Stableford points, puts etc. not a lot to ask? Your handicap doesn’t adjust to the course rating. The stat center is poorly laid out and doesn’t really give you clear stats, on putting numbers, left or right off the tea etc. When you go to score card and below this you have each hole that you can click on to give an overview, the number of shots on the right doesn’t give you total for the hole just a number of shots with no puts, surely this should say what your total was for that hole. Virtual caddy very really gives me the correct club, this may be because my tracking for 7i-pw is not accurate. Anyway just some of my disappointment with the software because the watch is great, just needs an update on the software.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback. We will consider these points for future versions.

Was good, now not.

First 5 or 6 rounds - absolutely great. Didn’t miss any shots and when I was on the green - prompted me to input putt number and then onto the next hole. Now, just stays on the green overview when on the green - doesn’t pick up putts at all and I have to come back out of the page and into scorecard, select the hole and input scores manually - really annoying this has started. Have written to retailer so hopefully get an exchange. Also - a really annoying feature is not being able to see your gross strokes per hole when you’ve selected stableford scoring. Yes you can pretty much work it out but would be nice to know total scores (for example if you shoot 7, it just gives no score) - not great when you’re trying to track improvements on strokes over a whole game but using stableford while playing with friends that day. So close, yet so far for me.