Home Computing Weekly


Golf

Publisher: Salamander
Machine: Dragon 32

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #2

Good value and an excellent representation of the real game, complete with handicapping and choice of clubs.

There are nine holes - go round twice for 18 - each shown first at the end of the fairway and then in close up. Use the up and down arrow keys to place your cursor in front of the ball, choose your club from the menu and then hit the space bar.

Wind direction and force on the fairway is shown by a red arrow; on the green the arrow indicates direction and angle of slope.

Shots played from the rough, shown in green, won't travel so far and shots from hazards - yellow bunkers and trees - will be even shorter. If you're unlucky enough to drive out of bounds or into a pond, both shown in red, your ball is lost and you play again from the position of your last shot with a penalty of one.

You can play by yourself or with one other player to the standard Stableford points system used for competition golf. This is fully explained on a detailed instruction sheet. The cassette is nicely packaged too.