Tips for Beginners (feel free to add your own)

[The Phasmid]

1. Go to the Challenges section, and pick the coaching section to train your swing, short game, putting.

2. Invest time in offline courses to gain points before anything else. If you have a tough time with a particular hole, customize that course so that hole is the only one you play.

3. Most important, imo. Invest all Skill Points in Approach Accuracy and Control first. This will make the game infinitely more tolerable. I've seen people on Twitch/YouTube getting frustrated with their short game/approach. It is rough at first, but the swing options you gain when investing in Approach makes getting to the green/closer to the pin much easier.

[Marshall_maz]

At number 2 , what do you mean with " points " ? XP skill points ?

[The Phasmid]

Originally posted by Marshall_maz:

At number 2 , what do you mean with " points " ? XP skill points ?

Yes. The green symbol with the white cross/add sign in the middle.

[Harvester]

Great advice.

These things should have been made clearer in the game. It would save people a lot of trouble.

[Millertime]

I'll add that you need to go into options and enable "Tooltips" first. Otherwise when you go to the Challenges and Academy it just puts you on the tee and says "Hit the fairway".

[The Phasmid]

Originally posted by Millertime:

I'll add that you need to go into options and enable "Tooltips" first. Otherwise when you go to the Challenges and Academy it just puts you on the tee and says "Hit the fairway".

Tooltips enabled is certainly necessary when in the Challenges Academy.

[jmg2004]

First time I am using a controller as was always mouse user; using a wired xbox controller on PC...having great difficulty executing shot on pitch/chips...when I pull back left stick for down swing..it just stops at bottom...only worked once or twice to hit ball...I can hit off the tee and put fine...any suggestions please..tx.

[Millertime]

Originally posted by jmg2004:

First time I am using a controller as was always mouse user; using a wired xbox controller on PC...having great difficulty executing shot on pitch/chips...when I pull back left stick for down swing..it just stops at bottom...only worked once or twice to hit ball...I can hit off the tee and put fine...any suggestions please..tx.

The swing for those shots should work the same as a full shot. You need to pull the stick all the way back and hold it back until the club gets to the correct point on the swing meter before pushing forward.

[spajk]

Yep. Playing Coaches/Sponzors Challenges is good way to impove your equipment like better clubs.

[Mydis]

Originally posted by spajk:

Yep. Playing Coaches/Sponzors Challenges is good way to impove your equipment like better clubs.

You dont get better clubs. You only change the kook, not the stats. The only way to get better stats are Skil points für your golfer an "specs" for clubs and balls. And I havents found a way to get a "spec" as reward für challenge. But of course you cant buy it from the ingame "coins" you earn.

[iFred]

4. Instantly refund this garbage
5. Buy another golf game

[Marshall_maz]

Originally posted by Mydis:

Originally posted by spajk:

Yep. Playing Coaches/Sponzors Challenges is good way to impove your equipment like better clubs.

You dont get better clubs. You only change the kook, not the stats. The only way to get better stats are Skil points für your golfer an "specs" for clubs and balls. And I havents found a way to get a "spec" as reward für challenge. But of course you cant buy it from the ingame "coins" you earn.

The problem with those specs are they are waaaaaaaaay to expensive and there isn't enough ways to earn currency in the game. There is only so many challenges to complete. It's a really terrible system. One should have been rewarded both XP and currency after every round you play and then better clubs should have been bought from the store that have better stats like it logically should work. But nooooooooooo , EA had to come up with this idiotic way of improving clubs.