(A text crawl at the beginning says rule changes “in the year 20XX,” of course, have brought a new era of golf to us.) Players form up a squad of all-stars, each with a favorite club and a course specialty, and take on bite-size tournaments with each performer playing one hole each. For sure there is an audiovisual familiarity - goofy, caricatured players with signature talents, a chipper soundtrack - as well gameplay that, despite changing over to touch controls and a smaller screen, mostly retains the way you target, shape, and execute shots. And it’s a breath of fresh air to know that, as the premium service’s newest golf game, this isn’t a hacked-up perversion of a console game I enjoy, with timed lockouts, microtransactions to get around them, or daily check-ins to “drive engagement,” whatever that means.Ĭlap Hanz Golf is a game distinct from Everybody’s Golf, and yet still evocative of it, in all the departments where such a connection helps. That’s what developer Clap Hanz (creators of the Everybody’s Golf/Hot Shots Golf series) is going for with Clap Hanz Golf, one of more than 30 games Apple Arcade subscribers got last week. Putting this on an iPad might bring that device from the back of the field, in my gaming stable, to the pack leaders. Whether winding down from a core game or sports sim, or just the workday itself, and I was looking for something to play, Everybody’s Golf always won long stretches of my attention without ever asking for a big time commitment.

The PlayStation 4’s Everybody’s Golf, from the late summer of 2017, consumed dozens of hours of my time.

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