Currently on my THIRD Garmin Venu SQ watch. I've returned two of these watches so far, which I use exclusively for the Golf App.
Running into constant issues with the Golf app suddenly stopping tracking my shots mid way through a round with the auto shot feature, which usually happens if I don't take a shot within 5-10 minutes due to waiting my turn. It seems to stop tracking from inactivity. I've also had rounds when the watch would stop tracking I'd then end the round, then it tries to sync my scorecard causing the watch to crash and go on to vibrate for 10 minutes with a black screen draining a significant amount of battery each time. Another time it randomly crashed during my round and sent an SOS out on its own which I could not even stop, I could NOT interact with the screen at all.
This watch is an absolute disaster to use for Golfing, I only bothered with it as my old Vivoactive 3 battery was struggling to make it through a full round, which I actually had zero issues with tracking wise, it was completely fine for Golf. The Venu SQ is more appealing priced vs the current Garmin Golf series here in Australia but that shouldn't mean I should just have to deal with constant bugs and tracking issues cause of how much I paid. There is no support contact methods here in Australia from what I can find other than for Returns.
I've factory reset each Venu SQ watch every time I updated each to 3.30 software. I've tried changing tracking from "Smart" to "Every 1 second". I've turned all notifications off during activity as I noticed this crashes the Golf app 50% of the time if I ever receive messages of some sort. I've tried "Pausing round" and reopening it when tracking drops, which I've noticed sometimes corrects the problem but not always. Tried changing some other minor settings but nothing, no fix for this sort. Seems to be an issue with the software, no settings alone can fix.
As I've said before I'm currently on my third one of these watches and the problem persists through all of them, I don't plan on going for a 4th as this is the last straw for me.
Misleading to list these Golf functions on the spec sheet if they don't even reliably work correctly honestly, though there is clearly deeper issues anyway with how unstable the Golf app alone is on this device.
Any suggestions, I'd love to hear.
Thanks