Wearing a watch while golfing ⛳️

Played my best round recently and broke 90 wearing my Orient Mako. Might never take that Watch off 🤣

I recently volunteered at a charity golf event with hundreds of millionaires and only 1 or 2 nice watches.

According to this, mechanicals are quite resilient.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J8oyxKlLXps&feature=shareb

Not sure why, maybe the weight and fit of what I wore, but I always take my watch off and carry it in my bag.🤷🏼‍♂️

I don’t golf so I won’t vote but I say why not anyways.

Awesome post! 🤩

Thank you for sharing this with us 🙌🏾

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Have always worn a gshock when playing a round personally, feel like it's the best fit

Were you wearing this? 🤣

Thankfully, no. But, if you play, you know golf—lots of rituals and superstitions. Whatever you do don’t say the “y” word… 😲

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Even tour level swing speeds will be fine, as long as it's solidly built.

Look at John Daly, and my boy Phil. They still have incredibly hard, fast driver swings and routinely rock very nice automatics.

I've been wearing my Shotscope since 2020, it's the only smartwatch I've ever bought and used. Primarily for the ease of the app and knowing what the green layout is, distance to pin etc.

Soon as I find a used or sale fob variant, I'll be going back to wearing a regular watch on the course.

I usually rock one of my F91-Ws.

Can't blame you haha, congrats on breaking 90 👏

I don’t golf, but I think the only way you would damage a watch would be if you got angry and either threw the watch or hit it with your clubs.

Don’t professional golfers wear watches?

Golf swings do not have a sudden stop in their motion and if you hit deep the grass softens the blow along with the shaft flex. Hammering nails would kill a watch though.

Some do and some don't. I know Bubba Watson has a Richard Mille model inspired by him that is very resistant to force due to how fast he swings the club. It's likely a lot of marketing and most people wouldn't damage a watch from just swinging a golf club. It's more mental for me and plus pga tour players make more in a weekend than I make in a year so I just play it safe

Doesn’t matter how long the course is, golf is played in between the 6” between your ears

This is the same as the “chopping wood” question last month. Debated endlessly. Seriously?

I always wear a watch, there almost no time I don’t have a watch on my wrist. One quartz watch that I never wear, 15 mechanicals, play golf at least once a week for 30 years, never had a problem, ever.

I have played golf with both Quartz and mechanical watches. Both types of watches must be light weight and comfortable to not hinder my golf swing cause golf is already hard enough as it is 😅... ⛳️🏌️

I wear one of my G Shock 5600's, got a yellow, green and blue from the heritage release.. I'll wear one that matches my outfit..

BUT, my grail Golf Watch is the Hublot Golf watch, it's the baddest ass thing Hublot makes and I wish I could get one but it's $30k, has a carbon fiber case, ultra light and it has a built in score keeping complication for holes, shots, and total score, it's ridiculously dope and they come in different colors

The most golf I've done is a brief stint at the driving range with some borrowed clubs followed by some swearing and verbal assault hurled at the balls and clubs. This was partially due to some annoying kid doing far better than me for his age group a few metres to my right. I gave up after a while and drank some sambuca with a friend, who also gave some (we drink them out of little plastic packets) to a monkey and repeatedly tried to film it drinking it while it ran off taunting us. My Seiko was in my pocket during every swing, but returned to my wrist whenever the club's were out of sight.

I don't think I can hit a powerful (or straight) enough drive to damage a watch. I can probably wear a vintage Patek while golfing and it'll run just as accurately when I finish as when I started.

A….. why would you want to know the time whilst playing golf. Played for 40 years and never wore a watch once, sacrilege

For the longest time, the one place I could be found, in public without a watch, was on the golf course. That all changed now that I added a Casio G-Shock GA-B2100 to my collection. That fear of damaging my watch is gone. Great question!

I find anything on my wrist is a distraction when I golf.

Golf is no concern for me: my hands are the pivot point of the club, not at the club head. I wouldn't put my watch on the tee and whack it, but I'd wear any of my watches without concern.

The shocks I give a watch golfing pale compared to some of the other sports I do. Cycling is the worst - hitting potholes or bad pavement at high speed shakes a watch violently, sometimes continually for minutes. Downhill mountain biking delivers similar forces.

IMHO, you need light relatively shock proof watches for cycling, for golf go crazy.

Mind you - it's fun to find excuses for another watch - so I'd recommend getting a new watch to be your special golf watch 😀

I think golf's terrible, but if I was to play - quartz, for sure.

IDK, because I don't play golf, but isn't this a perfect excuse to wear a pocket watch?

I put quartz/digital watch. But in reality I gave up golf

I am a keen golfer, albeit not a very good one. I wear a golf watch, as they serve a great purpose and are relatively inexpensive. I would also wear a quartz watch. However, the sudden impact of striking a ball won't do a mechanical watch any good at all.

I'm not allowed at golf courses. Imagine Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.

I like the way you think 😂

I’ve played probably close to 1000 rounds of golf and I always wear a watch. My Explorer 124270 has probably been on my wrist for a few dozen rounds and even more range sessions. Regardless, thousands of balls hit in all types of weather and it’s never lost any accuracy.

Someone mentioned swinging a hammer but I have chopped wood, laid flooring and cycled gravel roads in my watch and still not had any issues. Maybe one day something will break but I bought the watch to wear and plan to do just that.