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This decidedly boring game has little or nothing to recommend it. After a title page which consists of nothing more than a while blob sitting on a green square, we are presented with the first page.

This page asks us the question "What is your weakness?". To which we must reply with a number corresponding to one of the four options, which are Slicing (1), Bunker Shots (2), Putting (3) and Rough Shots (4). Later we realise, there seems to be no point in answering this question as we feel that the outcome is the same for all the options.

Anyway, having answered this, we get to the first hole.

A graphical display of the first and all the subsequent holes, of which there are only nine, is shown on the top two thirds of the next and each of the following pages. Also at the top of each of these pages is the hole number that you are on, and the length, and the par of that hole. We are shown below this, a plan view of the hole with a mess of coloured graphics along the side of a fairway with a bunker somewhere about the middle. There is, therefore, little change to the layout of each of these pages.

The bottom third of these pages is devoted to the input and output of text information. We are asked to select a club, which we give by a number 3 to 9 followed by the letter 'I' for 'Irons' and 2 to 6 followed by 'W' for 'Woods'.

Having chosen our club we must then give a percentage of how hard we wish to hit the ball. After each stroke we are told how far we now stand from the hole and what has happened to the bal, and at the end of each hole we are told the par for the round so far. The purpose of the game is to get as low as possible a score for the round.

Finally we are shown our score card; this gives the yardage, par, and our score for each hole. It also poses the question "Would you like the same round again?", and personally I couldn't take another hole let another another round!

All in all the game has little resemblance to the game of golf, and offers nothing to hold the interest of the player, with no use being made of the BBC's sound capabilities. The only animation is a thin black line moving across the screen.