Last year the first version of the game was released, which was discussed in this thread.
Action! PC Golf: Available - Front Office Football Central
New version has been released with many new enhancements, which I have listed below. If you enjoy golf (especially during Masters weekend), it's a good strategy golf game that produces realistic results and atmosphere. It is not an arcade/3d game like Tiger Woods Golf, but offers a really good golfing experience.
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Action! PC Golf
Listed Enhancements:
2014 Edition Features
New Gameplay Features
•The 14 clubs in each golfer's bag can be customized from an assortment of woods, hybrids, irons, and wedges. Club trajectories and distances are modeled using real tour launch monitor data.
•Clubs are now selected for short game shots. The amount the shot carries and rolls is dependent on the club selected. If you don't carry a high lofted wedge in the bag, you'll have difficulty with short side pitches from poor lies.
•Vastly improved short game AI allows computer controlled golfers to better navigate difficult slopes on and around the greens. This also applies to user shots when “Auto Read Greens” is on.
•A new option for simple shot targeting allows you to simply click the spot where you want the shot to end up. The computer AI will generate a setup that, if perfectly executed, finishes as close as possible to that spot. Once a spot is targeted, the landing and finishing points of the generated shot are displayed, and the shot controls are set for that shot. Any adjustments to the shot can be made manually before clicking the swing button. This option allows users to skip the nuances of shot making and focus on broader strategy decisions. It's also a great way to learn the game, since you get to see how the AI sets up the shot to get it where you want. This option expands the game play styles available; from a simple click to target mode, to advanced setup without any aids.
•Enhanced physics and animation on putts creates a realistic depiction of putts with multiple breaks.
•Instant replay is available after each shot.
•Occasional unplayable lies in spots like trees, deep rough, waste areas, and pot bunkers require a drop with a one shot penalty.
•Approach shots can hit and deflect off the pin.
•Improved approach shot AI allows computer golfers to pick smarter targets on the green in different circumstances. You'll see longer shots aimed away from trouble, and wedge shots more precisely targeting the pin. Computer golfers are also better at using slopes on the greens to get approaches close to the target.
•Improved ball flight and roll animation, and improved reactions to terrain and slopes on the course.
•Option to choose wood or metal wood sounds in season preferences.
New Team Events
•Team cup events of up to 8 sessions and 12 players per team. Events are completely customizable or can be loaded from a preset template. Teams can be created player by player or filled automatically using various statistical categories and rankings, filtered by country or world region. Detailed stats are kept for each event.
•Team event templates can be saved for frequently used formats. About a dozen templates are included with the game, covering many popular formats.
•Teams can be created and saved for use in team events. Stats for saved teams are kept, including record, matches won and lost, holes won and lost, average winning/losing margin and more.
•A team ratings report shows the strengths and weaknesses of each saved team.
•Saved teams can be tracked in stroke play events on the new teams tab. After selecting how many scores should be counted from each team, every saved team that has at least that many players in the event will be displayed with its total score on the team leader board. When creating stroke play tournaments, players can be added to the field by team.
•Rankings are kept for USA, International, and European cup teams. These rankings can be used to create your teams at the end of the season.
Course Customization and Enhancements
•Custom course creation allows courses to be made using holes from any installed courses. Courses can be created from scratch or existing courses can be edited. Course name, location, and weather averages can also be set.
•Custom course layouts – edit the par, tee and pin positions of each hole on a course to create alternate layouts which can be used in any round. Examples of custom layouts could include: matching the week's tournament setup, historical tee positions, creating a par three course out of a standard course, converting par 4s to par 5s, setting more difficult or easier pins, and more. Many existing courses have been updated with alternate layouts mirroring their various real life course setups.
•Most course imagery has been retouched and enhanced for cleaner, more vibrant graphics.
•Add course logos by saving a 'Logo.jpg' image in any course folder.
New Casual Round Options
•New casual round game modes include best ball (stroke and match play), skins game, and modified stableford scoring.
•Choose custom starting and finishing holes for casual rounds, plus a 36 hole option.
•Option to set the starting score for each player in casual rounds allows you to recreate the last group on Sunday. This option along with custom start and finish holes allows many different scenarios to be created.
•Casual rounds can now be saved and resumed later.
New Statistics
•Strokes Gained Putting, which measures putting ability by comparing the result of every putt to the tour average from that distance, is now a tracked statistic for golfers and individual holes.
•Hole stats report includes score average, fairway and green percent, putting, and scoring breakdown for each hole. This report can be filtered by course, par, and hole number.
•Course stats include best round and scoring average.
•New player of the year award standings.
•New golfer rankings report displays world, money, cup points, player of the year, and team qualifying ranks.
•Stats are kept for major championship finishes and money earned.
•Individual golfer stats are kept for each tournament, viewable on the summary form by round and totals.
•More stats have been added to the shot by shot scorecard for each round, including strokes gained putting, driving distance, proximity, scrambling, and more.
New Tournament Features
•The new tournament leader board is sortable by categories including cup points, world rank, alphabetical, country, and more.
•Modified stableford scoring option in tournaments.
•A first tee announcer announces players on the first tee of tournaments using the Windows narrator voice. A pronunciation tool allows you to adjust how names are pronounced. Many common golf names and places have pronunciations already built in.
New Tools and Options
•Import golfer ratings from one season to another. Similar to the model league function in our other games, this allows you to update your season in progress with new ratings. For example, upon finishing the 2013 season ratings can be updated using the 2014 data to continue on to the next season, preserving existing stats and rankings. New players are also optionally imported.
•Option to choose what month the season starts in. This allows the current wraparound schedule to be used.
•Season era sliders have been added to account for equipment and course conditions of past eras. These include driving accuracy, approach shots, short game, and putting.
New Appearance
•New background images. Save any of your own images into the 'Images/Backgrounds' folder and they will be used as backgrounds without having to be renamed.
•Add course logos by saving a 'Logo.jpg' image in any course folder.
•The new schedule form displays tour, tournament, and course logos when installed. Events are color coded by type of event, with major championships in bold.
•Click a hole on reports and tournament screens to view the hole image.
•Add a tour logo to the season folder or the game's images folder in the format “TourLogo.jpg” and it will be displayed on the tour schedule.
•Golfer pictures are now displayed on the leader board. Golfer pictures and course logos are displayed on the end of round form.