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Handicap Golf features a one or two player game over nine or 18 holes. Before play starts, the course can be previewed hole by hole. Unlike similar games, the course is viewed from the side, each hole being in sections, usually three. As a result, you can't see the green from the tee, which is rather a disadvantage when aiming! Only when you reach the green does the display change to an overhead view.

Graphically the program is fairly unsophisticated in comparison with the best, I wonder if it's Basic? Even so, it plays a good game.

You have the choice of clubs for each shot, illustrated with the distance each is capable of. Throughout the game, the distance remaining and other scoring information is available in a window. Once chosen you set your direction by moving a small cursor taking into account the wind. Your small stick man then takes a swipe, and trudges off, followed by his caddy. After five strides, the screen scrolls to the left, and you continue to play. On reaching the green, you aim towards another cursor to hole the ball, having preset the distance. Sometimes the ball stops on the very edge of the hole and disappears because it's the same colour. Rather frustrating!

I did enjoy playing this, though to be frank, it's about the standard of a good magazine listing, and not as sophisticated as implementations seen on other machines. Good value, however.

D.M.