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S62 Plus CT10 for Putter?

So, I couldn't stand having the competitor's club tags, clip-on device, and phone app all charged, updated, and running.  More than once I got to the club and realized I switched clubs but didn't remember to switch tags.  Thus, I was happy to switch to the S62.  I like just taking the watch and typing everything into one device.  What I didn't realize was the lack of putting detail.  I'm ok with not having in-depth putting stats, but my question is whether or not the S62 measures approach shots to the center of the green or is it registering my putts and adjusting accordingly and how can I tell?  More to the point of the topic, would adding one CT10 on the putter improve the fidelity of my approach shots by ensuring it has a better coordinates for the end point?  Thanks in advance.

  • GPS accuracy of consumer grade devices does not allow for the small area the hole with the flag location to be marked with enough accuracy of allowing this feature. Making the spot would allow a generalized location letting the user know the general area of the green they were in, and may vary based on environmental factors that may affect GPS accuracy. 

    The GPS location accuracy of Garmin outdoor watches is around 3 meters (10 feet), 95% of the time. This means, at any given time, your watch will save your location within 3 meters of your actual location. If your watch is recording a GPS location every second and you do not pause an activity while standing still, your watch can record up to 180 meters (590 ft) in just 1 minute. When in an area with degraded GPS signals, your watch can record even more distance while stopped. The distance recorded while standing still is a representation of GPS Drift.

    We may at some point offer more putting features, but at this time we have no announcements regarding this feature being offered. 

  • Interesting stance. Why would you think the GPS accuracy of the watch is accurate enough to track the ball for every single shot I make during a hole, but not accurate enough for it's final resting place?

    And do you really think that Garmin users staring at an aerial view of a green are able to guess their location and then actually click there on a tiny watch screen to an accuracy inside of the 3 meter tolerance of the GPS?

  • The measurements of the course map, in conjunction with GPS allow for distances and shot locations to be tracked accurately, in a manner of going forward from the tee box to the green. Map distances being preloaded, along with GPS accuracy allow for the shot distances to be recorded from where the user takes a shot, to where the shot was ended, due to another shot being recorded. 

    Putting on a green is a confined spaced where the user may be putting forward, backward, left, right or vice versa. Note how currently the distances are only offered to the front, middle, back of the green. 

    Garmin will offer further information if more features become offered for putting, thanks! 

  • I'm completely stumped at this response from Garmin.

    How can you have a dashboard with putting statistics when you at the same time say your best accuracy is about 10ft. How do you know if my putt was short, medium or long? How do you know if I chipped close to the pin or not? 

    Why bother providing nonsense statistics when you can't even backup the numbers and explain how you got them?

  • The distances for short, medium, or long putt metrics are generalized to the manual pin placement adjusted by the user if using CT-10 sensors to detect the putts as they occur on the green.

    Please refer to the Garmin Golf Performance Stats and Data Available support page for more info on current putting metrics available. 

    If you have further questions regarding how this works, product support can help offer further assistance through our support team. 

  • The CT10 sensor is just a sensor. The watch is the GPS.

    Explain to us how the watch is accurate enough to provide such data yet that same watch won't let me mark the location of the pin when I'm standing over it because it isn't accurate enough.

    Maybe I'm missing something and just don't understand.

  • I think his response to me two posts above adequately explains their stance on why the green is treated differently.

    Whether we agree with it or not no reason to make the man keep repeating himself.

  • You are right. I read Cody's explanation for why mapping on the course is accurate and less so on the green.

    Not sure why I even care as I don't even own a Garmin anymore. Parted ways just over a year ago.

    I guess I still feel that with a bit of effort an excellent watch could have excellent data.

  • Kudos to Garmin for the timely response.

  • If accuracy is the restriction here, then there is no point in having the CT10 on a putter (or on any other club other than bypassing the club selection). That then also means that by setting the pin location manually as suggested earlier, serves no purpose because the actual putt could be 10ft away but recorded as 1ft. As disappointing as this is, at least I don't have to buy the sensors anymore - now that I know it would not track my putting nor the result of my approach shots accurately.