Golden Tee Golf: Online Games 12+

I love GT and have been playing in sports bars for years... here is what I like, the app is really cool and I love playing. The courses are challenging and the graphics are really cool. The contests are good and fun. I don’t mind paying for upgrades, at all! The bad, not enough courses... again, I don’t mind spending, but not enough course options to make me feel good about the spend. Taking away the spins option is a total bummer, It’s a shame not developed with live wire and cabinet version. Would be great to play on device and when out play my profile on the cabinet version too. Give us back the spin. And why are there no options to upgrade putters? Bring more courses, give us putters to buy, bring back the spin (ditch the different balls to buy) and make it easier to upgrade. I do love GT 100% and will stick with you for a while. But make it a little more cost effective! Add both real and fantasy courses as I feel trapped with limited courses!!!! And SPIN please!!! Way more fun!! Also develop head to head to play with friends!!!!!

Overall I love the game but there are a few issues. 1. I’m a level 31 and playing in the lowest level tournaments available and I’m competing against level 49 players (which I think is the highest you can get) with the best clubs. Once you get to a certain level you shouldn’t be allowed to play in the lower tournaments. I finish -10 and I’m losing by 4 or 5 strokes. You can’t compete with someone that has all the top equipment and you can’t win enough coins in the tournaments to get better equipment because the level 49 players are getting eagles on 50-60% of the holes. I guess it’s a money grab. 2. Why do you get less Golden Tee points for hitting a better shot into the green? If you don’t get GSP’s you’re better off hitting in further away and get more points for making a longer putt. It doesn’t make any sense. In the challenges I’m purposefully hitting balls in bunkers and hoping to make the chip to get more points for a sand save. 3. I get you have to make money but get rid of the special balls. Unless you buy gold to get the best balls then you’re not going to compete. At the very least you should get to buy balls with gold or coins before the round and have them to use for that round. Not one use and lose it. Like I said, overall it’s a fun game but it’s getting to the point of getting frustrating not having a chance even at the lower tournaments unless you pay to play.

Having to use balls for backspin/roll ruins this game. The whole foundation of playing Golden Tee requires you to use those ball actions almost every shot for good placement and you don’t earn enough of the balls to play the shots you want in the app. It’s a clear money grab, which is nuts because of how often you need to buy more balls. I’ve already found myself turning the app off during contests because I’m out of backspin balls and I simply can’t compete with other players who can make the required shots for the holes. Nothing more frustrating than visualizing how to birdie/eagle a hole and being denied basic gameplay mechanics unless you pay.

The second issue, which isn’t gameplay related, is that you don’t earn clothes/accessories every set number of birdies/eagles/hole-in-ones like in the arcade, which is one of the reasons that game is fun! This is apparent as another money grab because you can buy the in game currency to buy clothes/accessories. I still feel like they should add that to the game, as getting a free random item here and there won’t stop folks from buying stuff they see from the shop as well. If anything, it might make people spend a little more to finish outfits if they’ve earned a single random piece to a cool set.