Approach S70 + Same watch, same round, two different answers. Below: what the S70 records on its own, what changes when CT10 sensors log the club, and what AVA does with either one. Nothing here asks you to buy new hardware.
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One hole, two readouts
Both columns describe the same nine minutes of golf. The left one is accurate and complete. The right one is the one you can act on.
The tracker on its own A faithful record of what happened, and no opinion about which part of it mattered.
The same hole, read by AVA The finding
You blamed the putts. The hole was lost by one SW from 19 yards, which cost 2.0 strokes on its own. Nothing on a scorecard shows you that shot.
Three setups, side by side
The S70 is one of the strongest amateur data sets there is. CT10 sensors add the club on most shots, putter included. AVA is what prices any of it.
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| Capability | S70 | S70 + CT10 | S70 + CT10 + AVA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Score, fairways, greens, putt count | Recorded, fairways and putts by hand | Recorded, fairways by hand | Recorded |
| Shot locations and hole context | Recorded | Recorded | Recorded |
| Club on most shots | Not recorded | Detected automatically | Recorded |
| Every shot priced in strokes vs scratch | No | No | By category, hole by hole |
| Putting strokes gained | No | Putter logged, not priced | Yes, with the sensors |
| Which two or three things to practise | You decide | You decide | Ranked by what it cost you |
| Measured yardages checked against the course | Profile distances only | Profile distances only | Course vs practice, as a finding |
| Rounds and range sessions on one timeline | No | No | Scored the same way |
| Instruction matched to the leak | No | No | Top 100 teaching pros |
Without sensors AVA works from scores, hole context and shot locations; AutoShot ignores putts, so the putt count comes from a tap and there is no putt distance to price. That is still enough to find where rounds break. With the club on most shots, a vague miss becomes a specific yardage fix.
What you get back
Real charts from the app. The first two get sharper once the club is attached to the shot; the third works from scores alone.
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Finding the leak is half of it. AVA matches what your rounds exposed to lessons from nationally ranked teaching professionals, and rebuilds the playlist as your game moves. No lesson fees, no drill library to search.
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Matched because you hit 2 of 7 fairways. Everything the approach numbers below cost you started here, on a lie you did not choose.
Matched because ten of your sixteen approaches were played from rough, and the 225+ yard band cost −2.7 on its own.
Two approaches this round flew roughly fifty yards past the distance you were playing to. Your watch measures total distance, ball to ball — this is the session that reconciles it with the card.
The drill that closes the loop: a structured block you can log, so next week AVA can tell you whether it worked.
Lessons are selected against the leak your own data exposed. You do not search a library and guess which video applies to you.
When the most expensive thing in your game stops being the most expensive thing, the playlist changes to whatever is.
Instruction from nationally ranked teachers is part of the $25 a month, not an upsell inside it.
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Garmin is a native sync, not an export job. Every round you play arrives on its own, scored the same way, next to your practice sessions. AVA reads your rounds and never writes back.
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Strokes gained by category against a scratch baseline, hole by hole.
The two or three things worth your next bucket of balls, ranked by what they cost you.
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GARMIN APPROACH S70 + AVA GOLF
An S70 captures a round accurately with no effort from you, which is genuinely valuable and also the easy half of the problem.
The hard half is ranking. A round summary tells you where the ball finished on every hole and leaves you to decide which parts of it mattered. Made by feel, that decision is reliably wrong in the same direction: we blame the memorable miss, not the expensive habit.
AVA prices everything the watch records in strokes against a scratch baseline, so driving, approach play, short game and penalties land on one comparable scale. Putting joins them once CT10 sensors log the putter. The order that comes back is what you should practise.
One of the most useful things in a Garmin profile is measured club distance, because it is built from real shots on real turf rather than a mat on a good day.
It is almost always shorter than the number a golfer quotes, and the round above shows what that costs: nine of sixteen approaches finished off the green, the ones that missed sitting around fifty-five yards from the pin, with ten of the sixteen played out of rough. The seven that did find it averaged twenty-five feet.
If you also practise with an Approach launch monitor, AVA holds both sides and reports the difference as its own finding. When practice and course disagree, the course is right.
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The same pattern shows up in practice data: smash factor holding for sixty balls and then falling off a cliff. Endurance is individual and it is measurable.
AVA reads round and session data together, which is the only way to tell a decision-making problem from a fatigue problem. They need different fixes, and guessing between them costs a season.
No. Rounds sync to your Garmin account, and AVA reads them from there once Garmin is connected. One authorisation and you're done.
Not to get a read, but they change what is possible. Without them AVA works from scores, hole context and shot locations; AutoShot ignores putts, so the putt count comes from a tap and there is no putt distance to price. With them the club is logged on most shots, putter included, which adds putting strokes gained and turns a vague miss into a specific yardage fix.
No. The connection is read-only. Your rounds, scores, club distances and handicap stay exactly as they are.
AVA brings in what your Garmin account makes available rather than starting from the day you connect. History is what turns a snapshot into a trend.
Only if it records shot positions. AVA reads the round from your account rather than talking to the device, so what matters is what the round contains: anything with AutoShot logs shot positions and gets the shot-by-shot read on this page, while a score-only model like the S12 or G12 records the card and GPS yardages, which gets you round-level strokes gained and trends instead.
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