It has a dedicated golf widget that uses GPS and Glosnas to show you the distance to next hole. Takes sometime to get used to the fact that screen is not a touch screen and all controls are through physical buttons but after some time this is even better because you do not run into a problem of wrong responses from the screen due to moisture like other watches do. As for reading the screen so far my favorite, the brighter the sun the easier it is to read, you need to activate the screen at night where there is no other sources of light, at all other conditions very easy to read.