Golf Course Architect Tycoon

Description

Build a golf course on raw land. Watch a full field of golfers play it. See where they struggle, change the hole, and watch again. Then run the club that grows around it.

You're the architect. You arrive on a raw piece of land: hills, water, trees, open ground and tight corners, and it's on you to see what it could become. Where does the first tee sit? Does the green tuck into that hollow, or does the fairway bend around the water instead? You're standing on unbuilt land like the great golf architects of old, and now it's your turn.

Build it

• Sculpt the terrain. Raise hills, dig valleys, carve ponds, streams and waterfalls until the land supports the course you're picturing.

• Lay out each hole by hand. Set the tee, choose the line to the green, and decide whether it's a tricky par 3 or a long par 5 that makes golfers think.

• Paint freehand, no grid. Fairway, rough, green, bunker, water and more, straight onto the ground. Save a layout and stamp it for quick designs.

• Plan the whole property. Practice green, driving range, clubhouse amenities, and the trees and land around it all.

Watch them play it

• A full field on a real shot model. Clubs, wind, slopes and skill all matter. Golfers read your hole and choose their line: some take on the bunker, some lay up short of it.

• A course that comes alive. Golfers mark their balls, crouch to read putts and fix their pitch marks. At dawn your crew sets the pins, mows fresh stripes and empties the bins.

• Big moments. Drain a long putt for a banner and confetti. Every ace gets fireworks, a replay and a spot on the Aces wall.

• Watch the Broadcast. Sit back and follow the field live, with a commentary team in the booth.

See what works, then fix it

• The heatmap shows where golfers land and where they get into trouble, so you can see whether that bunker actually changed how the hole plays.

• Every hole is scored on how it looks and how it plays, and a hazard where golfers actually land counts for more than one nobody reaches. A pretty hole that plays badly is a problem you can see and fix.

Run the club

• Green fees, members, staff, a pro shop and a touring beverage cart.

• Hire a Head Pro who gives lessons on the range and sells more in the pro shop.

• Host tournaments, and enter the Club Championship yourself.

• Grow across a region: buy more land, build a course on each plot, and run them all from one wallet.

• Sandbox mode with unlimited money, if you'd rather just build.

Play it yourself

• Play As: take the shots yourself on your own layout, with a swing meter, a putt read and a rangefinder.

• Wildlife wanders the property, and photo mode captures the course at its best.

Also

• Full controller support.

• Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel).

• English, plus six more languages translated by machine. We'll fund a proper human translation for any language that turns out to be popular in Early Access.

• Metric or imperial units.