Alright, we're gonna do this nice and spreadsheet-like. Here's the contents of Golfshrine as presently stands. Last updated: March 1, 2024. Thanks to SamTheOctopus on the Netizen Club discord for helping to sort these alphabetically for me, since FrontPage 98 somehow lacks such a basic feature.
Title |
Company |
Platform |
What's so interesting? |
| All-American Sports Series: Golf | Sierra | Windows 9x | Budget re-release of Sierra Front Page Sports: Golf. First golf game I know of to include "True Swing" that determines swing power and spin by mouse movements (and you can make your golfer fall on his ass by overswinging). |
| Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf | Sega | Sega Genesis | Clamshelled. |
| Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach | Bandai | NES | [/shrug] |
| Buick Dimensions 1991 | The InMar Group | Macintosh | Primarily a computerized car catalog, mailed to Buick customers on a floppy disk, this one also contains the 1991 Buick Classic, a simplified golf game containing the front 9 holes at Westchester. |
| Computer Golf! | Magnavox | Odyssey2 | Golfshrine's first Odyssey game! I used to have one of those, but the keyboard didn't work and I traded it in like a dumbass. |
| CyberTiger | Electronic Arts | PlayStation | One of EA's attempts to make golf more palatable to casual players, this one features Tiger Woods at various ages, chibi-like character graphics (and a secret code to inflate your own head), power-ups and just general weirdness. |
| David Leadbetter's Greens: The Instructional 3-D Golf Simulation | MicroProse | DOS | Part of a CD-ROM compilation that also includes Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon and B-17 Flying Fortress. I'm missing the manual so Greens is not playable in this form. |
| Disney Golf | Electronic Arts, T&E Soft | PlayStation 2 | Stars the mainline Disney cast as playable golfers, except for Mickey who is everybody's caddy. |
| ESPN Golf Presents: Lower Your Score with Tom Kite | The 3DO Company / Intelliplay Sports | 3DO (JP) | Japanese release of this...collection of instructional videos. This isn't actually a game, and Tom Kite is dubbed over in Japanese, which makes it doubly useless to me (and twice as hilarious to own). |
| Everybody's Golf | Sony, Clap Hanz | PlayStation 4 | Allows creation of new golfers from scratch instead of having a defined roster. |
| Fighting Golf | SNK | Famicom (JP) | Japanese version of Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf. |
| Ganbare! Golf Boys | NCS / Masaya | PC Engine | Golfshrine's first HuCARD game! Released only in Japan and still in its CD-like jewelcase. |
| Go Go Golf | Midas Games | PlayStation 2 (PAL) | Golfshrine's first PAL game and what a strange one it is, eschewing aim controls for predetermined shots. With names. See the article. |
| Golden Tee Golf Plug-and-Play | Incredible Technologies, Farsight Studios | Plug-and-Play | Standalone TV game with accurate replication of arcade trackball controls. Powered by (missing) DC adapter or by 4 AA batteries. Software is a modified version of another golf game Farsight developed for a motion-sensing club controller. |
| Golf Club: Birdie Rush | Data East | Famicom (JP) | |
| Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples | Sega Sports | Sega 32X | The only 32X golf game, said to have been made by former Access Software staff. |
| Golf | Atari Corporation | Atari 2600 | It only superficially resembles golf, but it's a very early example of video game golf and deserves as much a place as any. |
| Golf | Nintendo | Famicom (JP) | One of the "pulse label" Famicom games. Satoru Iwata's first game. |
| Golf | Nintendo | Game Boy | The label is Japanese, but the ROM is identical worldwide as far as I can tell. |
| Golf | Nintendo | NES (USA) | US release of Satoru Iwata's game. Clamshelled. |
| Golfkko Open | Taito | Famicom (JP) | In a unique plastic case with cartoon artwork that stands out from the pack. |
| Great Golf | Sega of America | Sega Master System | Golfshrine's first SMS golf game, complete in its nondescript white grid box. |
| HAL Hole In One Golf | HAL America, Inc. | Super NES (USA) | |
| Harukanaru Augusta Masters New | T&E Soft | Super Famicom (JP) | Part of the updated "NEW" line of 3D Golf Simulations by T&E, that include an SA-1 chip to enhance the 3D rendering of the course compared to earlier SFC versions. |
| Hot Shots Golf 2 | Sony, Clap Hanz | PlayStation | This is the one that features Gex as a guest golfer. |
| Hot Shots Golf 3 | Sony, Clap Hanz | PlayStation 2 | |
| Hot Shots Golf: Fore! | Sony, Clap Hanz | PlayStation 2 | |
| Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 | Sony, Clap Hanz | PlayStation Portable | Allows high degree of character costume editing, with no gender restrictions whatsoever. |
| Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee | Sony, Clap Hanz | PlayStation Portable | Greatest Hits release. |
| Hot Shots Golf | Sony, Camelot | PlayStation | |
| Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf | Konami | NES (USA) | This is the one where Jack Nicklaus looks like Jack Torrance from The Shining. |
| Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf | SNK | NES (USA) | Not actually about fighting, despite the dev credit. Clamshelled. Probably the game that inspired The Simpsons' "Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge." |
| Links 2001 | Access Software, Microsoft | Windows 9x | Four-disc release. First Links game on new 3D engine and the final one including Arnold Palmer. |
| Links 2004 | Microsoft | Xbox | The last Links game and the only one exclusive to a console platform. |
| Links 386 CD | Access Software | DOS | Enhanced re-release of Links 386 Pro, featuring nicer sounds, 3D flyby videos, and commentary by Bobcat Goldthwait. |
| Links 5-Course Library, Vol.2 | Access Software | DOS, Mac OS | Includes Banff, Troon, Cog Hill, Devil's Hill Fantasy Course, and Belfry, designed to work with Links, 386, and Microsoft Golf 1.0-3.0. I believe also works with early versions of Links LS with a converter. |
| Links CD-ROM | Access Software | DOS | Original Links: The Challenge of Golf. Contains no CD enhancements and only one course. |
| Links Extreme | Access Software, Microsoft | Windows 9x | Bizarre alternate version of Links featuring "deathmatch" mode and Demolition Driving Range. It's not nearly as Extreme as it claims to be, but hey, it exists. |
| Links LS 1999 | Access Software, Microsoft | Windows 9x | CIB, somehow, despite getting it from Goodwill. |
| Links LS Classic | Microsoft, Access Software | Windows 9x | Links LS 2000 with a lot of the bonus courses included, but with the Arnold Palmer's Office multimedia content removed. |
| Links Pocket PC | Microsoft, Handmark | Windows Mobile | CD-ROM release of Handmark's Windows Mobile port of Links. |
| Links: The Challenge of Golf | Access Software, Virgin Interactive, Papyrus | Sega CD | One of very few console ports of the Links series, and Papyrus's only non-racing game ever. |
| Mario Golf: Advance Tour | Nintendo, Camelot | Game Boy Advance | Golf as an RPG? Somehow works. |
| Mario Golf: Super Rush | Nintendo | Switch | Mii golfer, RPG mode, and Speed Golf, among other things. |
| Microsoft Golf 1.0 | Microsoft | Windows 3.x | Windows port (with enhancements) of original Links under license from Access. Features additional "silly sounds" option just in case your golf wasn't wacky enough, and is compatible with courses for the original game. |
| Microsoft Golf 1998 Eddie Bauer Special Edition | Microsoft | Windows 9x | Special cut-down version of MS Golf '98. I don't think this was sold separately, it may have been a pack-in with a computer brand or something. This was made after MS Golf stopped being based on Links. |
| NES Open Tournament Golf | Nintendo | NES (USA) | The fancy one with Mario wearing the stripey clothes. Probably the best golf on the NES. |
| Namcot Open Golf | Namco | Super Famicom (JP) | |
| Neo Turf Masters | SNK | Neo Geo Pocket Color (USA) | Pocket-sized version of the legendary arcade game. Surprisingly accurate to the real thing. |
| New 3D Golf Simulation: Pebble Beach Golf Links | T&E Soft | Super Famicom (JP) | |
| Outlaw Golf 2 | Simon & Schuster | PlayStation 2 | Featuring commentary by Dave Attell. |
| Outlaw Golf: 9 More Holes of Xmas | Simon & Schuster | Xbox | Blockbuster Video-exclusive release with 9 more holes on a winter-themed course. |
| Outlaw Golf: Holiday Golf | Simon & Schuster | Xbox | Xbox-exclusive standalone "demo" with 9 new holes on a winter-themed course. Included a $5 rebate for the full game. |
| Outlaw Golf | Simon & Schuster | Xbox | Comedic take on golf, featuring commentary by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell, and a Composure mechanic where your golfer will get angrier with bad shots and will affect their stats (and calm down by beating up the caddy). |
| PANGYA: Fantasy Golf | Tomy, Ntreevsoft | PlayStation Portable | RPG golf with fantastical style, based on Korean MMO golf game PangYa (AKA Albatross 18). Has a character based story mode. |
| Pebble Beach Golf Links | Electronic Arts | Sega Genesis | CIB. |
| Peter Jacobsen's Golden Tee Golf | Incredible Technologies | PlayStation | One of only two actual home ports of the Golden Tee series. Released as a budget title. |
| PGA European Tour | Electronic Arts | Sega Genesis | Not the last PGA Tour game on Genesis, there was one more. CIB. |
| PGA Golf | Mattel Electronics | Intellivision | Golfshrine's first Intellivision game! ...I might never own that system. |
| PGA Tour '96 | Electronic Arts | Sega Genesis | The actual last PGA Tour game on Genesis. CIB. |
| PGA Tour '96 | Electronic Arts | 3DO | CIB. |
| PGA Tour '96 | Electronic Arts | PlayStation | Tall-case version. |
| PGA Tour '98 | Electronic Arts | PlayStation | The last PGA Tour Golf game before EA brought Tiger Woods on board as their cover man. |
| PGA Tour 2K23 | 2K Sports | PlayStation 4 | Have yet to even take this one out of the case, tbh, but got it for a song from a guy who just wanted to mail me a bunch of golf games for some reason. |
| PGA Tour Golf 486 | Electronic Arts | DOS | Enhanced PC CD-ROM version of PGA Tour Golf III, clearly a branding attempt to outdo Links 386. Actually pretty nice-looking, has the new swing and aim meters. |
| PGA Tour Golf II | Electronic Arts | Sega Genesis | Clamshelled. |
| PGA Tour Golf III | Electronic Arts | Sega Genesis | CIB. |
| PGA Tour Golf | Electronic Arts, Sterling Silver Software | Sega Genesis | Cartridge only, alas. |
| PGA Tour Golf | Electronic Arts | Super Nintendo | Cartridge only; thanks to Mom for picking this one up ;) |
| PGA Tour Golf | Electronic Arts | Mac OS Classic (68k) | Black and white graphics, CIB. Runs on my Mac Plus. |
| Power Golf | Hudson Soft/NEC | TurboGrafx 16 | Golfshrine's second HuCARD game and the first in English, complete in its jewelcase. I love the HuCARD jewelcases. |
| SimGolf | Maxis | Windows 9x | Almost CIB - was missing one of 3 golf balls, which I've since replaced with a WW Labs one I ordered custom. |
| Super Birdie Rush | Data East | Super Famicom (JP) | Sequel to DECO's Famicom game, Golf Club: Birdie Rush. |
| Super Swing Golf | Tecmo, Ntreevsoft | Nintendo Wii | Another offline adaptation of PangYa, this one adding motion controls. |
| Super Swing Golf: Season 2 | Tecmo, Ntreevsoft | Nintendo Wii | Updated version of the above, now featuring bonus costumes based on other Tecmo games such as Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Bowl, and Bomb Jack. |
| Swing Away Golf | T&E Soft | PlayStation 2 | I think this was T&E Soft's last golf game under that banner? |
| Swingerz Golf | Fresh Games by Eidos | GameCube | |
| T&E VR Golf: Pebble Beach Golf Links | T&E Soft | 3DO (JP) | Japanese version of 3DO Pebble Beach Golf Links. Sadly, this isn't the one with Craig Stadler in it, he seems to be exclusive to the Saturn version. |
| Tecmo World Cup Golf | Tecmo | PlayStation | Jewelcase release. This is that one where the cover art is just a pixelated screenshot of the game. Top notch, fellas. Also the game can't decide what it's called - the spine says Tecmo World Cup Golf, the front cover says Tecmo World Golf...come on. =| |
| Tee Off | Acclaim | Sega Dreamcast | Whatever "Gate Ball" mode is, the back of the case describes it as "futuristic." Intriguing. |
| The Final Round | Konami | PlayStation | |
| The Irem Skins Game | Irem | Super NES (USA) | AKA Major Title 2 and technically the predecessor to Neo Turf Masters/Big Tournament Golf. |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf | Electronic Arts | Handspring Visor (Palm OS) | The game, loaded on to a Handspring proprietary memory card format. I bought an entire PDA specifically for this. |
| Tiger Woods '99 PGA Tour Golf | Electronic Arts | PlayStation | Pulled from shelves by EA after it was discovered that the file ZZDUMMY.DAT on PS1 versions of the game was actually 5 minutes worth of South Park's The Spirit of Christmas. This is a pre-recall copy. Amazing. |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 | Electronic Arts | PlayStation 2 | |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 | Electronic Arts | Nintendo DS | |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play | Electronic Arts | Nintendo Wii | One of a handful of "All-Play" editions of EA Sports titles from 2008-09, intended to be more approachable to players who do not normally play video games. |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 | Electronic Arts | PlayStation 3 | Runs on the same engine as EA's survival horror game, Dead Space. Contains several costume items from other EA games; Dead Space's Engineer Suit is one of them. |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 | Electronic Arts | PlayStation | Supports DualShock controllers. The first mainline PGA Tour game to have analog stick swinging. |
| True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club | T&E Soft | 3DO | CIB. Yes, I have three different versions of this game. I regret nothing. |
| True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club | T&E Soft | Nintendo 64 | |
| True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club | T&E Soft | Super NES (USA) | |
| True Golf Classics: Wicked 18 | T&E Soft | 3DO (USA) | AKA Valora Valley Golf/Devil's Course. Appeared on Youtube's Classics of Game. CIB. |
| True Swing Golf | Nintendo | Nintendo DS | Developed by former T&E Soft staff. Probably the best golf game you can get on the DS. |
| VR Golf 97 | Interplay, VR Sports | PlayStation | I think this was a Gremlin Graphics game called Actua Golf in Europe? |
| Virtual Hydlide | T&E Soft | Sega Saturn (JP) | Powered by the 3D engine T&E developed for their golf simulators. Yes, really. |
| Wii Sports | Nintendo | Nintendo Wii | Includes a Golf game in its selection of 5 games. Notable in the speedrunning community, for some reason. |
| World Class Golf | Radica | Handheld | Standalone LCD handheld game, earlier model with smaller swing button in bottom right corner. |
| World Class Leader Board Golf | Access Software/Tiertex | Game Gear | Handheld adaptation of Access' computer golf sim, with most of the digital speech intact, even. |
| World Cup Golf: Professional Edition | U.S. Gold/Eidos | PlayStation | PS1 rerelease of 1995 3DO/PS1/Saturn game, noted for being 100% pre-rendered 3D, via still shots and full motion video. |
The Offshrine
This auxiliary table will contain related material - golf of unconventional types, perhaps. Miniature, fantasy, Frisbee, I don't fully know yet.
Title |
Company |
Platform |
What's so interesting? |
| 3D Ultra Minigolf | Sierra/Dynamix | Windows/Mac | I suppose this is going to be Golfshrine's first miniature golf game! It's going to get all kinds of weirder from here. |
| Kirby's Dream Course | Nintendo/HAL | SNES | How about "everything"? Golf with Kirby powers and a boss fight. It's so weird. And brutally hard. |
| Miniature Golf | Atari | Atari 2600 | Only the second-ever golf game on the Atari 2600! |
| Original Frisbee-Disc Sports - Ultimate and Golf | DSi Games | Nintendo DS | Golfshrine's first simulation of Frisbee golf - and one of only two that I'm aware of being published physically. |
| The Wacky World of Miniature Golf with Eugene Levy | Philips Sidewalk Studio | Philips CD-i | A mini-golf non-simulator featuring Levy as a talking golf ball. |