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While some people may debate whether golf is really a sport or not, there's no arguing the massive popularity of this pastime. In the pursuit of lower pars, golf has developed a whole ecosystem of gadgets and technologies, a lot of it snake oil, to help improve your game.

Smartwatches have been at the forefront of golf technology for some time. If you're an avid golfer, special features like advanced mapping might even be a reason to skip a Galaxy smartwatch and get a Garmin instead . In fact, Garmin started the entire golf watch category with the launch of the Approach S1 in 2010, and has been the market leader since.

The thing is, though, golf has a tendency to attract those with thicker wallets, and so you might expect every golf watch worth having is some sort of expensive luxury TAG Heuer smartwatch .…