Could have been better, but a great little game all the same.
Cartoon characters playing a variety of fictional courses, your opponents getting harder to beat as you progressed but to counter that as you advanced further you could unlock the players you'd already beaten and make use of the extra power or accuracy they offered.
Sony, in their infinite stupidity, choose not to bother releasing the PS2 instalments in the UK and with the Xbox being a more serious console the cartoon golf game virtually vanished.
With the advent of Live Arcade we now have the chance to play these old style golf games once again… thank god for that.
Control is the exceptionally simple three-click system, aiming is a breeze and it's easy to play a draw or a fade as required to navigate around the scenery.
It's fun to play, a decent enough variety of outfits to wear with more available to download is the need takes you it's the sort of game that can easily find you spending a whole afternoon perfecting the use of "Focus" which allows for a little extra control over a shot or to check out the line of the putt.
So what if the questionable physics means that at times your ball will stop on the side of a big slope, even on the fairways, or that there is no option to lengthen the power bar when you're faced with a long uphill putt… you'll still have fun and the times when you'll get so frustrated with the game that you want to tear your hair out are kept to a minimum.
Where the game does fall flat is two fold… there's only two courses available and there's no opportunity to improve your player's abilities or equipment, couple that with only a generic male and generic female characters available to pick from and the single player game becomes nothing more than a quest to master the courses as best you can.
It's not going to win any awards but it can offer a good afternoons entertainment, longer should you play online… and for 800 points that's a bargain compared to a lot of the dross you'll find in the Xbox Live Arcade.