[Zinger]

I agree with many of the scathing comments in this thread. This game disappoints every year. Last year, despite the fact that I would love to have played Augusta, I didn't buy the game for the first time in years because of all the negative feedback. I'm very glad I didn't. And this game won a best sports game award??? Were there no other entries? If this game is better than MLB 11 The Show (just for starters) I'm a scratch golfer. The main problem as I see it is that none of the developers appears to be a keen golfer. How can we expect a realistic sim from people who don't care about golf or even, apparently, understand it? Can't they get one of the former Links team to join them? Gameplay, presentation, atmosphere, commentary, crowd animations, accurate stats, implementation of proper PGA rules - so much needs to be improved. As someone has said, extraordinary that golf of all games, surely one of the less difficult games to program and one of the first to be well conveyed on PCs, is now so badly served. There are promising signs this year, but then there always are and it never lives up to the hype. Ho hum.