Garmin Approach S72 Golf Watch

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Garmin Approach S72 Golf Watch Product Specs

WHAFT YOU'LL LOVE

• Sleep score and insights: ✔
• Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 10 days
• Built-in mapping: ✔
• Pulse Ox blood oxygen: yes (spot-check, and optional all-day and in sleep)
• Garmin ECG app: ✔
• LED flashlight: ✔
• Garmin Pay™: ✔
• Multi-band GPS: ✔
• Music storage: ✔
• Make calls and send texts via voice: ✔
• Training readiness: ✔
• Training status: ✔
• Display type: AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
• Touchscreen: ✔
• Water rating: 5 ATM

GENERAL

• Strap material: ComfortFit fabric
• Lens material: Sapphire crystal
• Built-in mapping: ✔
• Bezel material: titanium
• QuickFit® watch band compatible: yes (20 mm)
• Physical size: 43 x 43 x 12.93 mm | Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-200 mm
• Weight: 1.44 oz (41 g) with ComfortFit band
• Built-in speaker/microphone: ✔
• Display Size: 1.3" (32.45 mm) diameter
• Display resolution: 416 x 416 pixels
• Color display: ✔
• Large font option: ✔
• Battery type: Lithium ion
• Battery life: Smartwatch Mode: Up to 10 days | Golf Activity Mode: Up to 15 hours (using default settings)
• Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/History: 64 GB

CLOCK FEATURES

• Time/date: ✔
• GPS Time Sync: ✔
• Automatic daylight saving time: ✔
• Alarm clock: ✔
• Smart wake alarm: ✔
• Timer: ✔
• Stopwatch: ✔
• Sunrise/sunset times: ✔

HEALTH & WELLNESS MONITORING

• Heart rate (constant, every second): ✔
• Resting heart rate: ✔
• Abnormal heart rate alerts: Yes (High and Low)
• Respiration rate: ✔
• Fitness age: ✔
• Body Battery™ energy monitor: ✔
• All-day stress: ✔
• Relaxation reminders: ✔
• Relaxation breathing timer: ✔
• Meditation: ✔
• Breathwork: ✔
• Sleep: Yes (advance)
• Sleep coach: ✔
• Sleep alignment: ✔
• Breathing variations: ✔
• Nap detection: ✔
• Hydration: yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
• Women's health: yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
• Past ovulation estimates: ✔
• Health snapshot: ✔
• Skin temperature: ✔
• Jet lag adviser: ✔
• Lifestyle logging: ✔
• Health status: ✔

SENSORS

• GPS: ✔
• GLONASS: ✔
• Galileo: ✔
• QZSS: ✔
• BeiDou: ✔
• SatIQ™ technology: ✔
• Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: ✔
• Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor: ✔
• Barometric altimeter: ✔
• Compass: ✔
• Gyroscope: ✔
• Accelerometer: ✔
• Thermometer: ✔
• Ambient light sensor: ✔

DAILY SMART FEATURES

• Find My Phone: ✔
• Find My Garmin (helps locate lost device): ✔
• Find My Phone during GPS activity: ✔
• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields 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: ✔
• Evening report: ✔
• Calendar: ✔
• Weather forecasts: ✔
• Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: ✔
• Battery saver (customizable low power watch): ✔
• Controls smartphone music: ✔
• Plays and controls watch music: ✔
• Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: ✔
• Smart trainer control: ✔
• Pairs with Garmin Connect™ mobile: ✔
• Smartphone compatibility: ✔
• Stocks: ✔
• Sports scores: ✔
• Bluetooth phone calling and voice assistant support: ✔
• Voice command: ✔
• Color shift: ✔
• Red shift mode: ✔
• Garmin Share: ✔

WORKOUT AND TRAINING PLANS

• Daily suggested workout - Running (pace and heart rate based): ✔
• Daily suggested workout - Cycling (pace and heart rate based): ✔
• Garmin running coach: ✔
• Garmin running coach experts: ✔
• Garmin cycling coach: ✔
• Garmin Coach - Prebuilt cycling plans: ✔
• Garmin Coach - Strength: ✔
• Garmin triathlon coach: ✔
• Multisport workouts: ✔
• Cardio workouts: ✔
• Strength workouts: ✔
• HIIT workouts: ✔
• Yoga workouts: ✔
• Pilates workouts: ✔
• On-screen workout animations: ✔
• On-screen workout muscle maps: ✔

ACTIVITY PROFILES

• Gym: Strength, Cardio, HIIT, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Jump Roping
• Multisport: Triathlon, Swimming/Running
• Wellness: Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking, Mobility, Meditation, Breathwork
• Indoor running: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running
• Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running, Obstacle Racing, Adventure Racing
• Outdoor recreation: Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Rucking, Mountaineering, Expedition, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery
• Cycling: Biking, Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel Biking, Bike Commuting, Bike Touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross, BMX
• Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
• On the water: Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Fishing, Boating, Sailing, Sailing Expedition
• Motor sports: Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motocrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling
• SRacket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
• Snow and winter: Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Ice Skating, 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
• Other activity profiles: Inline Skating, Gaming

SATETY AND TRACKING FEATURES

• Incident detection during select activities: ✔
• Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: ✔
• Assistance: ✔
• Live event sharing: ✔

TACTICAL FEATURES

• Dual grid coordinates: ✔

ACTIVITY TRACKING FEATURES

• Step counter: ✔
• Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity): ✔
• Move alert movement options: ✔
• 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: yes (optional Connect IQ app)
• Automatic rep counting: ✔

TRAINING, PLANNING AND ANALYSIS FEATURES

• Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection): ✔
• Customizable data pages: ✔
• Downloadable training plans: ✔
• Course guidance: ✔
• HR zones: ✔
• HR alerts: ✔
• HR calories: ✔
• % HR max: ✔
• % HRR: ✔
• Recovery time: ✔
• Auto max HR: ✔
• Race glance/widget: ✔
• HRV status: ✔
• HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices): ✔
• Respiration rate (during exercise): yoga, breathwork, meditation and archery only
• GPS speed and distance: ✔
• Customizable activity profiles: ✔
• Auto Pause® automatic timer halt: ✔
• Interval training: ✔
• Advanced workouts: ✔
• Power modes (customizable in-activity battery settings): ✔
• HRM running pace and distance: ✔
• Auto Lap® interval tracking feature: ✔
• Manual lap: ✔
• Rest timer: ✔
• Configurable lap alerts: ✔
• Heat and altitude acclimation: ✔
• VO2 Max (run): ✔
• VO2 Max (trail run): ✔
• Realtime stamina: ✔
• Endurance score: ✔
• Load ratio: ✔
• Training load: ✔
• Training load focus: ✔
• Training effect: ✔
• Training effect (anaerobic): ✔
• Primary benefit (training effect labels): ✔
• Workout benefit: ✔
• Custom alerts: ✔
• Voice alerts: ✔
• Multisport auto transition: ✔
• Finish time: ✔
• Virtual Partner: ✔
• Race an Activity: ✔
• Manual multisport activities: ✔
• Garmin Live Segments: ✔
• Strava Live Segments: ✔
• Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): ✔
• Trendline™ Popularity Routing: ✔
• Touch and/or button lock: ✔
• Shortcuts: ✔
• Auto scroll: ✔
• Activity history on watch: ✔
• Garmin Epic: ✔
• Physio TrueUp: ✔
• Unified training status: ✔

RUNNING FEATURES

• GPS-based distance, time and pace: ✔
• Running dynamics: ✔
• Step speed loss: yes (with compatible accessory)
• Vertical oscillation and ratio: ✔
• Ground contact time and balance: yes (with compatible accessory)
• Stride length (real time): ✔
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): ✔
• Running tolerance: ✔
• Running economy: yes (with compatible accessory)
• Running power: ✔
• Grade-adjusted pace: ✔
• Performance condition: ✔
• Lactate threshold: ✔
• PacePro™ pacing strategies: ✔
• Run workouts: ✔
• Hill score: ✔
• Trail run auto climb: ✔
• Race predictor:
• Course- and weather-specific race predictor: ✔
• Projected race time and pace: ✔
• Foot pod capable: ✔
• Run/walk/stand detection: ✔

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: ✔
• Multi-player scorecards: ✔
• Custom targets: ✔
• Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): ✔
• Garmin AutoShot™: ✔
• Full vector map: ✔
• Auto CourseView updates:
• Green View with manual pin position: ✔
• Hazards and course targets: ✔
• PinPointer: ✔
• PlaysLike distance:
• Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point): ✔
• Handicap scoring: ✔
• Stableford: ✔
• Scramble mode: ✔
• Driving range activity: ✔
• Hand speed: ✔
• Backswing length: ✔
• Wrist rotation: ✔
• Hand plane: ✔
• Swing Tempo: ✔
• Tempo Training: ✔
• Round timer/odometer: ✔
• CT10 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory): ✔
• CT1 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory): ✔
• Wind speed and direction (requires connection to Garmin Golf app): ✔
• Virtual caddie: ✔
• Pairs with Garmin Golf app: ✔
• Tournament legal: yes (with tournament mode enabled)
• Green Contours (with Garmin Golf membership): ✔
• Putt tracking: ✔
• Green reading (with Garmin Golf membership): ✔
• Aerial imagery (with Garmin Golf membership): ✔
• Biometric data: ✔
• Lost ball timer: ✔
• Next hole navigation: ✔

OUTDOOR RECREATION

• UltraTrac mode: ✔
• Elevation profile: ✔
• Distance to destination: ✔
• Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: ✔
• Vertical speed: ✔
• Total ascent/descent: ✔
• Rest timer (ultra run only): ✔
• Auto rest: ✔
• Future elevation plot: ✔
• GPS coordinates: ✔
• Sight 'N Go: ✔
• Sun and moon information: ✔
• Expedition GPS Activity: ✔
• Tides: ✔
• Tide glance: ✔

MAPPING & NAVIGATION

• Point-to-point navigation: ✔
• Bread crumb trail in real time: ✔
• Back to start: ✔
• TracBack®: ✔
• Explore Nearby: ✔
• Up Ahead: ✔
• ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner: ✔
• NextFork™ navigation: ✔
• Preloaded road and trail maps: ✔
• Downloadable cartography support: ✔

CYCLING FEATURES

• Courses:
• Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): ✔
• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): ✔
• FTP (Functional Threshold Power): yes (with compatible accessory)
• Power curve and % FTP workouts: ✔
• Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map): ✔
• MTB Grit & Flow: ✔
• Advanced cycling dynamics: ✔
• Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters): ✔
• Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): ✔
• Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): ✔
• Compatible with Varia™ lights: ✔
• Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): ✔
• Power meter compatible: ✔
• Power guide: ✔

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): ✔
• Drill logging (pool swim only): ✔
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): ✔
• "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): ✔
• Auto rest (pool swim only): ✔
• Time and distance alerts: ✔
• Pacing alerts (pool swim only): ✔
• Countdown start (pool swim only): ✔
• Pool swim workouts: ✔
• Critical swim speed: ✔
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate: ✔
• Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): yes (with compatible HRM)