Why can you delete the ski maps, but not the golf maps?

Well, it could be holding music

I asked about this months ago, got nowhere.

But somebody did send me the golf map files and said you can delete them, and I did, and the device kept on working ok.

Most people dont give a F..k about golf so why should we be stuck with 1.5GB of bloody golf courses.

Its the most bizzare thing I have heard about the F7, duh, you need to have golf maps for proper device operation. WTF, get a grip Garmin. !!!!

No reason other that Garmin decided not to offer option to delete it. Just one of silly annoyances that make user experience worse than it could be. What is the most interesting is that this is simple to rectify, yet no one from Garmin pays attention to such things.

Yeah, this is really annoying.

This should be in the setup process of any watch:

Do you play golf? Yes/No

If user selects "No". The maps should be gone and everything referring to golf on the watch, in Garmin Connect and in Garmin Connect web should disappear.

Plain and simple.

It's really not something that "everyone does", so why force it on everyone?!

I deleted mine in Explorer

\fenix 7S\Internal Storage\GARMIN

The 3 files are;

D13994xxx.img - CourseView Europe Middle East and Africa 

D24193xxx.img - CourseView Americas 

D24714xxx.img - CourseView Pacifics 

NB: xxx will be the Map version

I had to eject the watch, reconnect and sync. The 3 maps are still shown in GE but now the tick boxes are empty. When I ejected again, it said "Loading Maps". I went into Map Manager in Settings and I only have my Topo Europe. no Course Maps.

The watch is still working.

Oh, I certainly agree with deleting golf maps. I was responding to another user who seemed to make a special point of having no maps at all, nor music, and just leaving nearly all the watch storage empty.