The Leaderboard games are decent with multiple courses, but they're not amazing - uggo graphics (quite often you can't even really tell where the flag is), having to watch every hole painstakingly drawn in front of you, and incredibly finicky control that'll see you start off recording a lot of 15s and 20s. But after that things plummet downhill at a rate of knots.
Konami's Golf plays kind of okay - the controls are super-simplifed but fast and you're never really sure how far the ball's going to go - but it's almost totally silent and you don't even get one full course - only nine holes.
Nick Faldo Plays The Open is just about the only other major full-price golf title and it's hilariously bad - shocking graphics and a mess of an interface that takes up most of the screen so you can't really see where you're shooting on the tiny play area.
(Let's just pretend Royal Birkdale Championship Golf doesn't exist, as clearly 90% of the development time was spent on the lovely title screen.)
Then we're down to two pretty rotten Atlantis budget games - Pro Golf, in which you may die of old age before you get to actually hit a ball, and Pro Golf II - and the sort-of-okay Codemasters effort with a very similar name, which is zippy and has a course editor and is probably the pick of the bunch overall so long as you can remember where the hole is (you only get one chance at an overview) and don't mind the comedy scrolling.
Of 87 games revealed by the database, the majority - 51 - are either crazy golf games, ZX81 titles, magazine type-ins, Crap Game Compo entries or MIAs that may never have been released, and a bunch more are just the same game but with different courses. And even some of the professional commercial releases look like this:
The Speccy's performance in this field really was sub-par, and not in the good way.
