Your Garmin help, please

Hello

Edge 1000 / segment question approaching....

I recently got an Edge 1000 and was wondering, for getting segments onto the unit (so as to enable me to become another segment chasing berk), am i right in thinking that you can only do it by:

• starring segments in strava and syncing the edge
  
• creating a course in garmin connect and then uploading it to the unit (in which case all the segments on the course transfer to it)
  
  

Does it not work if you create a course in strava?
I was hoping that if you create a strava course then send the file to the edge, all the segments transfer across, but it seems not.
I know the solution would be to just create the course in Garmin Connect but from memory GC is total shite for building maps and want to avoid it if possible.

Ta!