Links LS and other golf sims

[Number7]

The first golf game i played on PC was links, i think it was called links386 (at least thats the name i had in my PC) it was pretty sweet, and nice grafic for the time.

I have also played 3 different Tiger Woods on PS and PS2 2001 2003 and 2004.

2004 being the best here.

But when it comes to the best gameplay i have ever tried in a golf sim, it has to be the PGA tour 98 game.
This game had a great combination of difficulty of hitting, and the right amount of average puts per round and stuff like that.
Also great stats record , and the only downside, was the mediocry grafic.

I really wish the would make such a great golg game sim again.
Tiger Woods being too commercialised obv, but still entertaining though.

[CrazyEyez]

Loved this game. I can hear those birds tweeting as I swing.

[CubicZirconia]

I'm having massive flashbacks looking at those screenshots. I loved the sound effects, and trying to hit the clubhouse on the 18th hole.

More recently I've played TW03, TW04, and TW05. But the games are so easy on PC that I never did enjoy them that much. It just doesn't seem like golf when every shot you hit is perfect.

[tuq]

There are no doubt a ton of screen captures out there, but here is one I found off of Google images, it looks like the 18th hole at Cabo del Sol. Pretty sweet, and to address what the poster above mentioned, it's pretty friggin hard to master.

[CrazyEyez]

Cabo del Sol? Augusta? I must get this game.

[TomE.]

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Loved this game. I can hear those birds tweeting as I swing.

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Links386 taught me how to fine tune my computer. You had to load a vesa driver and fit it in the 640k memory space DOS had, along with any other drivers like cd-rom or your sound blaster. I was constantly tweaking my autoexec.bat and config.sys to try and fit everything in the 640 and still have the game run smooth. Thank heavens dos 6.2 had upper memory management.

I played in a links386 tournament where you emailed your scores in to a guy in England. People from all over the world were playing in it up until Links LS was released. It was on the honor system, you had to record the game and not start it over if you munged it up early. I got pretty good, coming in 3rd most every week. If you played a lot it was actually pretty easy.

Damn, that was a long time ago as well, about 1994-95.

[tuq]

TomE,

Come on man, Oakland Hills = super boring!!!

Here, does this leaderboard from Valhalla jog some memories?:

[CrazyEyez]

So this is not available anywhere right now? Or am I a complete googletard?

[Hey_Porter]

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So this is not available anywhere right now? Or am I a complete googletard?

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http://linkscountryclub.com/ has a link to the downloadable version, and a demo. I can't get the demo to work, though, so if you can, I'd be curious to hear how you did it (or if I'm just unlucky).

[CrazyEyez]

Demo is working for me. I'm probably going to buy the full version.

So is this real-time swing the way to go?