The MARQ Golfer Gen 2 is a luxury watch that happens to contain Garmin's most complete golf technology. Titanium case, sapphire crystal, a tritone green jacquard-weave nylon strap that is specific to this edition. It is the watch you wear on the course on Saturday and at dinner on Saturday night. There is no golf logo on the dial. There is no indication that this is a golf watch. The people who know what it is will know. The people who don't will ask about the watch, not the sport.
On the course, it runs the full Garmin golf suite — Virtual Caddie recommendations, full hole maps, hazard distances, shot detection, Approach CT10 sensor compatibility — alongside health monitoring, sleep tracking, and daily smartwatch functions that most purpose-built sports watches compromise on to keep the price down. The MARQ doesn't compromise. It's a $3,100 device that earns that number by being excellent at everything it does, not by adding features nobody uses.
What Don says: "Golf taught me to appreciate things that are built to last. The MARQ is that kind of watch — it was made by people who understood that the person who would buy it plays golf seriously but doesn't want a device that announces itself as a golf watch at a client dinner. That's a harder design problem than most people realize. They solved it."
Who this is for: Golfers who have outgrown sport-specific watches and want one device they wear everywhere. Executives and professionals who play golf seriously and need equipment that performs on the course and presents appropriately everywhere else. Anyone who has been carrying a separate golf GPS and a premium everyday watch and is willing to invest in the device that replaces both.
When NOT to buy this: If you need to justify the premium based purely on golf features, you can't — the Approach S70 at $949.99 delivers the same golf suite in a sport-specific body at less than a third of the price. The MARQ premium is for the materials, the daily-wear design, and the positioning. If that distinction doesn't matter to you, the S70 is a smarter purchase. This is the right device for someone who has already decided they want a watch at this level and wants golf built in, not someone looking for the best golf watch at any price.
Key specs: Titanium case | Sapphire crystal glass | AMOLED touchscreen | Full Garmin golf suite with Virtual Caddie | Health monitoring suite | Compatible with Approach CT10 sensors | Available as Brand New ($3,100) or Opened ($2,790)
About this product
The MARQ Golfer Gen 2 is a luxury watch that happens to contain Garmin's most complete golf technology. Titanium case, sapphire crystal, a tritone green jacquard-weave nylon strap that is specific to this edition. It is the watch you wear on the course on Saturday and at dinner on Saturday night. There is no golf logo on the dial. There is no indication that this is a golf watch. The people who know what it is will know. The people who don't will ask about the watch, not the sport.
On the course, it runs the full Garmin golf suite — Virtual Caddie recommendations, full hole maps, hazard distances, shot detection, Approach CT10 sensor compatibility — alongside health monitoring, sleep tracking, and daily smartwatch functions that most purpose-built sports watches compromise on to keep the price down. The MARQ doesn't compromise. It's a $3,100 device that earns that number by being excellent at everything it does, not by adding features nobody uses.
What Don says: "Golf taught me to appreciate things that are built to last. The MARQ is that kind of watch — it was made by people who understood that the person who would buy it plays golf seriously but doesn't want a device that announces itself as a golf watch at a client dinner. That's a harder design problem than most people realize. They solved it."
Who this is for: Golfers who have outgrown sport-specific watches and want one device they wear everywhere. Executives and professionals who play golf seriously and need equipment that performs on the course and presents appropriately everywhere else. Anyone who has been carrying a separate golf GPS and a premium everyday watch and is willing to invest in the device that replaces both.
When NOT to buy this: If you need to justify the premium based purely on golf features, you can't — the Approach S70 at $949.99 delivers the same golf suite in a sport-specific body at less than a third of the price. The MARQ premium is for the materials, the daily-wear design, and the positioning. If that distinction doesn't matter to you, the S70 is a smarter purchase. This is the right device for someone who has already decided they want a watch at this level and wants golf built in, not someone looking for the best golf watch at any price.
Key specs: Titanium case | Sapphire crystal glass | AMOLED touchscreen | Full Garmin golf suite with Virtual Caddie | Health monitoring suite | Compatible with Approach CT10 sensors | Available as Brand New ($3,100) or Opened ($2,790)
Don MacKay
Founder of The Golfather✓ 50 years inside the game.
✓ Golf Course Owner
✓ Past Director, NGCOA
““Only a true golf specialist can help you get set up right. We didn’t build this store to sell boxes. We built it because golfers deserve advice from people who actually live inside the game. We run a golf course. We watch golfers every day. We see what works, what lasts, and what actually helps people enjoy the game more. So when we recommend something, it’s not because a catalogue told us to. It’s because we’ve seen it help real golfers get better. Simple as that.””— Don MacKay
