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Being a frustrated Golfer, this golf program from Microdeal made me think that I could solve all my problems and save myself time - whoever heard of completing nine holes in ten minutes?

The program gives you the option of three levels of play and a full choice of clubs. The fairway is displayed in hi-res graphics and you are given the various parameters, distance to the hole, par etc. The various hazards, water, bunkers and rough are displayed. You direct the ball using the clock face method and there is a built in hook and slice element. For the non-golfer this means that the computer expects you to miss-hit the ball and therefore it doesn't always go in the direction you expect, just like the real thing.

I found the number of miss-hits to be higher than I think the average golfer expects - or at least admits to! After playing a few rounds I had convinced myself that the sooner I got back on the golf course the better - I was playing worse on the machine than for real! Harmless fun for those winter days or nights when you fancy a quick round - but frustrating because there are only eighteen holes - they forgot the nineteenth!