How I got GwF running with wine on linux.

[Rahorah]

My current version of wine is 1.9.5 and I have a nvidia graphics card.

The game is running nice and without any recognisable major bugs as far as I can tell. Some flickering but not worth to remember, when it happened.
Only one thing: after finishing a whole level, the mouse pointer vanished. Alt-tabbing out and in again solved that.

In my first attempt, the game crashed after the loading screen because of missing dx11-stuff. DirectX11-support is in a highly experimental and incomplete stage at the moment in wine. So I deactivated it and this brought me to the menu of the game. No join or host possible. When trying to hit the ball in training, nothing happened. - I forgot to start Steam again during the testing process (and so my profile couldn't be authenticated by the server). - And then ...
GwF is working!

Don't type or copy anything into a console, when you don't understand, what you do!

I created a new wine-prefix with 32bit for better handling and easier maintaining:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-gwf-32 wineboot -u

Then I deactivated dx11 in winecfg.

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-gwf-32 winecfg

Go to the Libraries-tab and select new overrides for "d3d11", "d3dx11_42" and "d3dx11_43" and add them to the list below. Edit all three to "disabled" and press "OK".

Now installing Steam.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-gwf-32 winetricks steam

Starting Steam:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-gwf-32 wine ~/.wine-gwf-32/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe

After login and the safety precedures you can install "Golf with Friends" and start it. Should be running now.

To start Steam the next time you just need the last command and start GwF from there.

Maybe, when dx11 crashes, a fallback solution to dx10 could help out with this. But I think, now it is easier to wait for the native linux client and resources should not be wasted.

(I don't use a standard distro, so I can't tell anything about installed libs and packages.)

I'm only a clueless user. Feel free to correct me.