As this is a solo experience for the most part (it does support four players in standard modes like match and stroke), your golfers' career is where your time will be spent. It becomes little more than a few random tournaments and challenges. You'll earn renown which is the only way to enter into higher tournaments.

You'll also earn money, but it has no purpose in the game at all, since there's nothing to buy. You can only assume it's being given to the three man commentary team who are being paid to mumble and sound as uninterested as possible. Additionally, you're always be playing against a NPC character. This makes tournaments that should take 20-minutes run about an hour.

If that becomes too dull to stand, you can create your own course. While obviously losing a lot due to the inability to share your creation with the world online, this is a deeply involving feature. The tools are logical, and aside from a few hints, you could quickly create a few holes to your liking without a deep tutorial. The ability to manipulate the shape of the green or fairway can lead to some involving designs.

It's a shame your course will look like the rest of the game though. This is a hideous looking game of golf, one so awful it affects game play in multiple ways. With an overcast sky, for example, it's nearly impossible to tell water from a sand trap. The reflection of the clouds looks like the same texture used for the dirt. Trees are masses of pixels. Players look like they're standing in front of a still picture given there's no motion at all in the backdrops (not even with a high wind). Robotic and repetitive animation is the final point that completely causes the engine to crumble.

Prostroke Golf is not a game high on the budget side of things — that's obvious. Credit is due for the creators focusing their skills where they belong instead of padding the game with unnecessary extras. While that sadly destroys this product overall when compared to the competition, fans of video game golf will be thrilled with the original concept for swinging and probably stick around long enough to get caught up in the course creator too. This is a worthwhile purchase to the right audience.

Prostroke Golf is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB. This game can also be found on: PS2, PC.