World Masters Golf
🙂 6.9/10
(Super Nintendo - PAL, Sports)
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Developed by:
Arc Developments Limited
Published by:
Virgin Interactive
Released On:
01 Jan 1995
World Masters Golf
The story of World Masters Golf revolves around competing in a prestigious golf tournament. As players progress through the game, they will face various opponents and try to improve their skills by winning matches.
The gameplay of World Masters Golf is focused on competing in golf tournaments and match play. Players can choose from different courses, each with its own unique challenges. The game allows for customization of players, including creating new golfers or using existing ones. The mode 7 view camera provides a realistic experience, allowing the player to follow the ball after it's hit.
UPC-A:
5028587050077 (Europe)
Media #:
SNSP-AW5P-EUR (Europe)
Part #:
SNSP P AW5P [SNSP-AW5P-EUR] (Europe)
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
*World Masters Golf* is a sports simulation game where players must master four distinct and challenging courses to earn the title of World Masters Pro. To succeed, players must navigate diverse environmental hazards, including dense woodlands, numerous water hazards, powerful ocean winds, and highly uneven terrain. By carefully adjusting for wind and slopes, players must execute precise shots and putts to conquer each unique course.
Story
All Four Courses
For your golfing gratification there are four courses simulated in World Masters Golf. Each of these represents a different challenge and only by mastering all four can you call yourself a World Masters Pro.
Aldan Forest
It's quiet, it's restful and it's resplendent with trees - it's also deceptively tricky. Aldan Forest's holes are flanked by woodland, bunkers and the occasional water hazard.
Whilst the trees keep the winds down, they also represent an unpredictable danger. Lodge your ball in the middle of a clump of pines and you'll have to play a pretty funky recovery shot.
Cranfield Lakes
Those hundreds of lakes and ponds might well look attractive, but they disguise the difficulty of this course. Due to the rather soggy nature of water, you'll need to play some seriously accurate shots if you're to hit the greens.
Pay close attention to the wind-meter, as a small gust can nudge that carefully aimed shot straight into the drink.
Marston Beach
This links course is reminiscent of the testing PGA courses that are so popular in America. The principle hazard here is the powerful ocean breeze which blows in off the coast.
However, it's exactly this unpredictability that makes this course one of the most enjoyable to play.
Victoria Plains
Having mastered the wind, the trees and the water, you'll have to get to grips with some tricky slopes on this course. The Victoria Plains golf course undulates all over the place, meaning that balls don't bounce quite as you'd expect them to.
Combine this with some punishing putting greens and you've got a cunningly difficult course.
Controls
B Button
Starts and stops the shot strength indicator and accepts menu selections.
A Button
Shows you the ball's lie.
X Button
Shows you the ball's lie.
Y Button
Indicates where the hole is, by showing you the flag and allows you to go back through the menus if you wish to change something.
L Button
Enables you to change the club you're using.
R Button
Enables you to change the club you're using.
Select
Calls up the menu screen, enabling you to view the overhead map and the scores.
Start
This gives you the ability to skip the current hole or even quit the entire round.
direction pad left and right
Moves the small white cross hair (aiming the ball)
How to Play
Shot Meter
On the right of the screen is the most important indicator in the game. The shot indicator enables you to precisely hit the ball with the correct amount of strength.
On the bar are the markers 0% and 100%. The 100% indicates where you should stop the strength bar for a full strength shot. Exceed this line and you'll hit the ball harder still, but its direction might be erratic. The 0% indicates where you should stop the bar for a straight shot.
Take a Shot
Now that you're acquainted with the game screen, let's play. First of all, let's have a look at the overhead map by pressing Select & then Y. The first hole at Aldan Forest is a 425 yard Par 4. As you can see from the map, the only danger is that bunker on the right; but so long as we hit a straight shot, that shouldn't present much of a problem.
Press any button to return to the tee. For this first shot we're going to hit a full length stroke right down the middle of the fairway.
Press the B button to start the strength meter and then press it again when it reaches the 100% marker. When the meter reaches the 0% marker press the B button a third time - try and get it dead on the line. The ball will now fly down the course.
Playing an accurate shot
On the face of it, golf is simply about hitting a dimpled ball down a stretch of grass, but there are many other factors to take account of that determine whether or not your shot is accurate.
These are points that you should bear in mind:
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The wind strength and direction.
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The lie (position) of the ball.
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The club you use.
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The strength with which you hit the ball.
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The surface you play from.
Hooking and slicing (Draw and Fade)
When you play a shot, its direction is decided by where on the club you hit the ball. If you get the strength meter directly on the white line you hit the ball in the middle and will hit a straight shot (apart from deviations due to wind).
If you hook the ball this means that the ball will move to the left of a right handed golfer and to the right of a left handed golfer. If you slice the ball this means that the ball will move to the right of a right handed golfer and to the left of a left handed golfer. You hook the ball if you stop the strength meter before it reaches the 0% indicator and you slice it if you hit it after it has passed the 0% indicator.
Most of the time if the ball goes to the left or right it is because you have not been able to stop the strength indicator on the white line for the perfect shot. However, there may be times due to direction of wind that you may wish to deliberately hit the ball to the left or the right, this is called Draw and Fade.
Using Draw and Fade
Let's say, for instance, that there's a strong wind blowing from left to right across the fairway. If you hit a straight shot in these conditions then the ball will get deflected over to the right. You can nullify this by deliberately hooking (drawing) the ball, sending it into the wind, so that the ball ends up going in a straight line.
This technique is also useful if you find yourself confronted by an obstacle such as a tree or a lake. By deliberately putting lots of hook (draw) or slice (fade) onto the ball, you can effectively swerve around the obstacle and get the ball into a more playable position for your next shot.
There are two ways of putting Draw and Fade into a shot. One way is by mistiming the strength meter. The other is to use the Fade and Draw indicator within the game. Pushing up and down on the direction pad will switch the Shot meter with the Fade and Draw indicator. You can then move the direction pad left or right to determine the amount of fade or draw you wish to put on the ball.
Choice of club or iron
The SNES will automatically choose the club it thinks is most suitable for your next shot. It makes this decision based almost entirely on the distance your ball is from the green and therefore it can make unwise decisions.
You may decide to choose a more powerful (or weaker) club, or hit with extra (or less) power. To change your club simply use the L and R buttons on the top of the joypad.
Putting
Once you've made it onto the green you have to contend with some new challenges. On the putting green it's the speed and slope of the grass that determines where the ball goes. Therefore it's important that you carefully analyse all the possible pitfalls before you take your shot.
Firstly, have a look at the bar in the bottom left of the screen, which indicates the speed of the green. The further the red bar is to the right of the indicator, the softer you'll need to hit the ball. Now press the X button and you'll be able to see how badly sloped the green is - the arrow indicates which way the slope rolls.
You have a shot meter as you did when you were on the fairway, however the power is variable. If you push up or down on the direction pad it will change the maximum distance you can putt (between 10 feet and 90 feet). To take the putt, push the B Button.
Using The Overhead Map
In order to play a good shot in World Masters Golf,
Tips & Maps
Pay very careful attention to that wind-meter
A gust of 7mph or over can deflect your ball quite severely off its flight path. Overcome this problem by fading or drawing the ball.
If you get caught in a sand trap
Hit the ball much harder than you would if it were on grass - it takes more effort to free the ball from sand.
When you're putting
Note whether or not you're playing up or down a slope and curve the ball inwards accordingly.
Don't be tempted to use a high iron (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6) or a wood when your ball's got a grotty lie in the grass
The ball will merely limp forward a foot or two. Instead use a low iron (7, 8, 9 or the pitching wedge) with as much power as you can muster.
If there's a tree right in your line of sight
Use the pitching wedge to knock the ball up over the obstacle.
Make extensive use of the overhead map
Don't just trust the CPU to point you in the right direction.
19th Hole
The 19th Hole is the name traditionally given to the bar in the clubhouse at golf courses. 80 years ago it was a funny joke.
Bunker
Sandpits placed in strategic positions to catch badly aimed shots.
Driver
This heavy duty club (also known as a Wood because of its wooden head) is used from the tee. Drivers are designed to send the ball a long way - the 1 Wood for example can send the ball 240 yards at 100% strength.
Fairway
The fairway is the smooth central reservation of grass. Ideally all your shots should end up on the fairway as you can virtually guarantee a good lie.
Foul
In golf a foul is a shot that ends up out of bounds. If the ball is played either too far to the left or right, past the white markers then the ball is out of bounds. Any ball that ends up in the water is considered a foul ball.
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