Pay no attention to the cheers roaring from the adjacent green. Block that pushed approach shot from your thoughts. Focus on the moment: 12 feet of green, downhill, breaking left--$250,000 rides on a single stroke of the mouse. PGA Championship Golf 2000 gives you all the tools you need to go low, while ensuring that skill and creativity are the primary factors in a well-played round.
Golf isn't an easy game. Lose concentration for a split second and that little white ball is blasted into the rough. Golf sims on the PC have changed all that, and the ability to drive it down the fairway has become a fairly easy task--until now, that is.
PGA Championship Golf 2000 changes all this. Armed with a rather large manual, PGA Championship Golf 2000 offers tournament play as well as the option of Quick Start, throwing you straight into the action, which is a great place to practice your style and skill before tackling the five new courses on top of the original eight that are present. And if this isn't enough to keep you busy, there are another 150 courses available from the won.net Web site.
Once you've got over the choice of whether to play The Royal Birkdale or Black Diamond Ranch Golf and Country Club, the options available to you seem endless. Sudden death, tournament, and handicaps are all present, and the ability of playing 72 holes gives you that real championship feel.
Thanks to a piece of programming called True Swing 3, the game learns from your style of mouse swing. This gives you a more personal level of playing ability while allowing the removal of the traditional swing-o-meter. Although difficult at first--get the wrong stance and your golfer will fall over--the mouse swing feature does become easier the more you play as the game adapts to your style.
This game is aimed at the computing golf expert, and if you are looking for the next challenge this will definitely feed your urges. However, if the idea of bashing your way around 18 holes is one where you want it to be as easy as possible, then you'd do best to leave this game to the pros. -- Amazon.co.uk Review