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❤ Swing Mechanics and Difficulty Customization

Players praise the swing mechanics as excellent and highly realistic. The game employs a swing timing system that requires properly timing the backswing and downswing to make clean, powerful shots. This system can challenge beginners, but provides a satisfying sense of mastery as players improve their timing and technique. Importantly, the game offers extensive difficulty customization. Players can adjust settings like aiming assistance and shot suggestions to match their skill level, ranging from beginner-friendly aids to a hardcore simulation experience without any assists. This flexibility allows players to tailor the difficulty to their preferences.

❤ Putting and Green Management

The putting and green management system has seen significant improvement over previous golf titles. The introduction of the "sweet spot" power bar makes judging distance and speed more intuitive, reducing the guesswork. Players also have access to shot previews to help read the green's breaks. Mastering the feel and nuances of the greens is critical to scoring well. Factors like elevation changes, wind, and lie condition all come into play, rewarding players who develop a keen sense of distance control and green reading.

❤ Shot Shaping and Club Selection

Beyond the core swing, the game offers deep gameplay in shot shaping and club selection. Players have a high degree of control over the trajectory and spin of their shots, allowing them to work the ball both left-to-right and right-to-left as needed to navigate the courses. Choosing the appropriate club for each shot, factoring in distance, loft, and playing conditions, is a key strategic element. The game's club distance modeling is generally praised as realistic, requiring careful management of club selection.

❤ Courses and Course Creation

The game includes authentic, licensed PGA TOUR courses, beautifully recreated with impressive attention to detail. These courses present a variety of challenges, from tight fairways and punishing rough to undulating greens, forcing players to employ a diverse skillset. In addition, the game features a robust course creation tool that allows players to design and share their own custom golf courses. This user-generated content adds tremendous replayability, with the community producing a vast library of unique and visually striking courses.