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I'm really curious to see what the testers think after all this! I just received my DF3 this week after doing their online fitting. It took about a month to receive it which is earlier than I thought as I believe I was quoted at 5-6 weeks. I will say that my first putting session with it was the best putting session I've ever had. This was such and easy transition and no way I'm taking it out of my bag!

Congrats testers!! Definitely jealous as these bags are amazing!!

I just went back and looked at my scorecards from my rounds and all of the yardages look pretty spot on. Most of my rounds were at a course where I'm a member, so I can attest to what the yardages should be. I'm not seeing a 10 yard difference like you're seeing on yours. It may be worth reaching out Garmin to see if there's a fix they can do. Maybe first you can just trying a quick reset and see if that fixes it.

Cut line: +4 Low Am: Hagestad Best of luck everyone!!

Congrats Testers!!

Congrats testers!!!!!

Congrats testers!!! I'm always curious how these would compare to my Under Armour spikes!

Congrats testers!!!!

Congrats testers!! I just put the new TP5 up against the Pro V1x and Chrome Tour X and the TP5 is my gamer for 2024. Such a great ball and I'm curious to see what you guys think!

Happy birthday @Q22Golf!!!

Thank you everyone!!! Honestly means a lot!!

Wanted to post an update. I was able to load up a golf course from my house to test the "auto lock" feature that would lock the buttons during play. I tried having it on just for activity and then put it on always. Both settings I received a vibration feedback when I went to press a button while a round is in progress.

Congrats testers!! I have a feeling a lot of people will be following this review!

Congrats testers!!!

I did not try to disable the buttons during play. I'll try looking at that feature more in-depth as I'm curious if it'll lose any functionality/convenience with the button disabled. I haven't been able to make it to the course yet this year with the weather, but I'll see if I can't try it from my house to hit the nearest course.

As my golf season is starting to come to a close for the year, I'm still continuing to take the Approach S70 out on the course with me. In one of my rounds, I had a buddy that used to work in the golf retail space wear it to give his review as he's very familiar with the market space. I gave him a quick tutorial on how to work it and then left all of my opinions to myself to make sure it was unbiased. He was very impressed with the clarity of the screen. He wanted more out of the graphics though. He wanted to be able to see all of the trees and other obstacles on the course that some of the apps that he was using from his phone. He said his price point for the watch was like $200-$300. I would like to note that he didn't have any issues with the watch trying to shut off by hitting the glove. It did hit his watch, but nothing was impacted. From my side, it still seems that the price point continues to be the biggest barrier for the S70. Like I mentioned, I will definitely continue to use it much like a Bushnell Wingman wrapped around my Bluetooth speaker.

I'm not saying that Vokeys are the best wedges, I'm saying that they are the standard that everyone uses to compare or as a starting ground. Much like the Prov1 golf ball. Is the ProV1 the best golf ball? It may or may not be and I completely agree that everyone needs to test to find what works for them the best. When a company launches a new golf ball, they use the ProV1 as a comparison for the numbers. Take one of the latest golf ball releases, PXG. When they released their golf ball, they used numbers from ProV1 to say we spin more/less and have higher/lower ball speeds. If something were to happen and ProV1 wouldn't have released a new model since the last golf ball test, would that data have been meaningful as a comparison? Just like is this wedge test the most meaningful as possible leaving out the industry leader in wedges regardless of when it was released. The reason I wanted to create this tread was to have these discussions because while you can go pull the 2022 results and flip back and forth to compare, you may not have all the same parameters as MGS naturally refines its process year over year. One thing that I love with the MGS community is all of our backgrounds and discussions. If we can make the data more meaningful to the end consumer then I believe it's our job to have those discussions. As an example, I believe it was a few years back that MGS wanted to start adding in the previous year's "best driver" in the next year's test. For one to show, do you gain the extra "30 yards with a new driver" and two as a leveling playing field.

I definitely get that things not being included are always a topic of every test, and that the SM9's were released March 11, 2022, but not having a Vokey in a wedge test is like leave ProV1 out of a ball test. Vokey is the standard in wedges the same as the ProV1 is the standard in golf balls.

I just saw that MGS released it's 2023 Best Wedge results, and I'll link the article below, but I was curious if anyone has any insights as to why Vokey wasn't included on this test. BEST GOLF WEDGES OF 2023 Also were there any wedges that shocked you in this test?

Thank you for posting that! I was actually just about ready to retrack my statement saying that there isn't a version out there and of course an ad comes up for the Galaxy Watch Golf Edition It's currently on sale for $420 without any trade-ins.

My Galaxy watch is 46mm and was one of the reasons I went with the 47mm S70. The other reasons are because I wanted the larger screen to be able to manipulate the course overlay for the GPS. If I would have gone down to the 42mm my finger would have covered the majority of the screen making manipulation very hard. I've never worn the Galaxy watch on the golf course as there aren't any GPS apps to my knowledge that work to display on a Galaxy watch like the S70. While the glove interference did not make a positive impact on my review, I still would have drawn the same conclusion. I don't believe the Garmin Approach S70 is worth the $700 price tag. For me a smart watch should eliminate needing to look at your phone. The S70 doesn't fulfill that need on the golf course, or off the course. To get accurate club data a person would have to have their phone out, or purchase the full set of sensors for an additional $300. The same could be done with Arccos for $200 or free with purchase of new golf clubs. If you would want another GPS watch, you would be able to do Shot Scope for $300.

My final review is up as well!! Thank you again for this amazing opportunity!!

All I'm going to comment is maybe wait and see my final review

Must have been operator error on my part then. Glad it worked!

I'm in the same boat as @Josh Ross in that my rangefinder is a Bushnell V6 shift