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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by Creator/SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows on January 23rd, 2002 by Creator/ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by Creator/SidMeier, Firaxis Games, Creator/FiraxisGames, and Maxis, released to Windows on January 23rd, 2002 by Creator/ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.



* [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou An Exterior Designer Is You]]



* CharacterCustomization: You can choose your character's gender, face, the colors of their clothes, and various quotes they say. You can also similarly customize the guests to your course.

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* CharacterCustomization: You can choose your character's gender, face, the colors of their clothes, and various quotes they say.say, and set their initial golf skills. You can also similarly customize the guests to your course.



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%%* [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou An Exterior Designer Is You]]
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* LuckStat: Affects the chances that the ball makes a lucky bounce.
* PointBuildSystem: Your character's golf skills - you get a set number of skill points you can give them, and earn more by completing certain achievements. Though their skills also change as they play.


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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Piss off your golfers enough, and they will storm of the course in a rage, throwing a tantrum, and freak out the other players. They'll also quit their membership, and won't come back, reducing your greens fees over time.

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* AnEntrepreneurIsYou



** Though golfers will continue to play if the ball lands in the middle of a group of crocodiles, or other usually dangerous animals.



* HeadSwap: The golfers' design.



* PunnyName: I.M. Picky and Ivanna Richman.

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* PunnyName: I.M. Picky and Ivanna Ivana Richman.


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* SpySpeak: In one of the stories, a couple foreign spies meet on the course and use this.
* TantrumThrowing: Angry golfers may throw their clubs.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Surround the hole with buildings or statues, and put a lake around that. Then, watch as golfers throw their clubs in frustration as they try to make the nearly impossible shot. Watch the line of golfers grow waiting for the last guy to finish. Or put a bench next to the tee, right in the line of fire.
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* CharacterCustomization: You can choose your character's gender, face, the colors of their clothes, and various quotes they say. You can also similarly customize the guests to your course.


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* HulkSpeak: "Me hate dandelions."
* PunnyName: I.M. Picky and Ivanna Richman.


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* SandboxMode


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* ShoutOut: The game contains many references to ''VideoGame/TheSims''.
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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by Creator/SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by Creator/ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by Creator/SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in on January 23rd, 2002 by Creator/ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.
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* RageQuit: Golfers who have had it with your terrible services or are constantly failing in a course will eventually go angry and quit his or her session. Better have a marshal or security nearby to make the golfer stop, otherwise the raging NPC will make other golfers unhappy.

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* RageQuit: Golfers who have had it with your terrible services or are constantly failing in a course will eventually go angry and quit his or her their session. Better have a marshal or security nearby to make the golfer stop, otherwise the raging NPC will make other golfers unhappy.
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* [[ConstructionAndManagementGames Construction and Management Game]]
* [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou An Exterior Designer Is You]]
* IsometricProjection

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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem / VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Whenever you are in "golf playing mode", you are not restricted from terraforming your golf club. While this is understandable because golfers might need to be tended while you play, this allows the player to cheat. See your ball landing towards a rough or into a water? Replace it with a green or fairway tile before the ball lands! See your enemy winning? Replace the tile to where the ball of your opponent lands with an obstacle.

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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem / VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Whenever you are in "golf playing mode", you are not restricted from terraforming your golf club. While this is understandable because golfers might need to be tended while you play, this allows the player to cheat. See your ball landing towards a rough or into a water? Replace it with a green or fairway tile before the ball lands! See your enemy winning? Replace the tile to where the ball of your opponent lands with an obstacle.
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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by Creator/ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Creator/SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by Creator/ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.
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It is an [[JustOneMoreLevel addictive]] game that pretty much captures the player much like other Maxis sim games. And speaking of which, it takes cues from ''TheSims'', having a [[SpeakingSimlish similar language]], and even a mode where notable characters from said game acts as patrons of your club.

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It is an [[JustOneMoreLevel addictive]] game that pretty much captures the player much like other Maxis sim games. And speaking of which, it takes cues from ''TheSims'', ''VideoGame/TheSims'', having a [[SpeakingSimlish similar language]], and even a mode where notable characters from said game acts as patrons of your club.



* SpeakingSimlish: The game uses some of the voice clips in ''TheSims''. It's not surprising when you hear "Myshuno!" in both this game and that game.

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* SpeakingSimlish: The game uses some of the voice clips in ''TheSims''.''VideoGame/TheSims''. It's not surprising when you hear "Myshuno!" in both this game and that game.
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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by ElectronicArts.Creator/ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.
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* SpaceManagementGame: Part of the battle in building holes is to be able to build on a given space. Also, you start with a small land which you can later expand by making sure a specific VIP enjoys your golf club.

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is, well, being a professional golfer. Challenge the players in your golf club and accept challenges from pros, with the holes you designed as the golf course. You earn money with each winning shot. Eventually, you'll be asked to host a tournament! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. You earn simoleons from members of your golf club as they complete each hole, buy refreshments, or use any of your buildings. You then spend said cash to designing your holes, providing buildings and staff, and paying your employees.

The other part is, well, being a professional golfer. Challenge the players in your golf club and accept challenges from pros, with the holes you designed as the golf course. You earn money with each winning shot. Eventually, you'll be asked to host a tournament! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!
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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament in your club! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses golf holes while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is is, well, being a professional golfer. Accept Challenge the players in your golf club and accept challenges from players and pros using pros, with the courses holes you designed, designed as the golf course. You earn money with each winning money for you shot. Eventually, you'll be asked to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting host a tournament in your club! tournament! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!
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* BizarreAndUnprobableGolfGame: Generally averted - obstacles prevent any "magic" when a ball collides on them, and hitting a building automatically stops the ball.

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* BizarreAndUnprobableGolfGame: BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: Generally averted - obstacles prevent any "magic" when a ball collides on them, and hitting a building automatically stops the ball.
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* BizarreAndUnprobableGolfGame: Generally averted - obstacles prevent any "magic" when a ball collides on them, and hitting a building automatically stops the ball.
** Of course, it can be invoked. See ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem below.
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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by EAGames. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament in your club! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002 by EAGames.ElectronicArts. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament in your club! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!
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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament in your club! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games, and Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002.2002 by EAGames. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament in your club! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!
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* CaptainEstraz: The celebrities that appear upon placing celebrity lots in your club will bear names like "Brittney Aguilera". They even have a short musical chord playing when a player is nearby, some of which are seemingly similar to the songs sang by the celebrities they are based from.

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* CaptainEstraz: CaptainErsatz: The celebrities that appear upon placing celebrity lots in your club will bear names like "Brittney Aguilera". They even have a short musical chord playing when a player is nearby, some of which are seemingly similar to the songs sang by the celebrities they are based from.
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* CaptainErstaz: The celebrities that appear upon placing celebrity lots in your club will bear names like "Brittney Aguilera". They even have a short musical chord playing when a player is nearby, some of which are seemingly similar to the songs sang by the celebrities they are based from.

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* CaptainErstaz: CaptainEstraz: The celebrities that appear upon placing celebrity lots in your club will bear names like "Brittney Aguilera". They even have a short musical chord playing when a player is nearby, some of which are seemingly similar to the songs sang by the celebrities they are based from.

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* CaptainErstaz: The celebrities that appear upon placing celebrity lots in your club will bear names like "Brittney Aguilera". They even have a short musical chord playing when a player is nearby, some of which are seemingly similar to the songs sang by the celebrities they are based from.



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* RageQuit: Golfers who have had it with your terrible services or are constantly failing in a course will eventually go angry and quit his or her session. Better have a marshal or security nearby to make the golfer stop, otherwise the raging NPC will make other golfers unhappy.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem / VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Whenever you are in "golf playing mode", you are not restricted from terraforming your golf club. While this is understandable because golfers might need to be tended while you play, this allows the player to cheat. See your ball landing towards a rough or into a water? Replace it with a green or fairway tile before the ball lands! See your enemy winning? Replace the tile to where the ball of your opponent lands with an obstacle.
** Of course, doing this repeatedly will make your enemy angry, causing him or her to throw a fit on the absurd difficulty or even worse, leave.
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* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Justified in that the desert areas are in the Americas. The cacti replace the trees for obstacles in the desert.



* AnExteriorDesignerIsYou
* IsometricProjection



* SpeakingSimlish: The game uses some of the voice clips in ''TheSims''. It's not surprising when you hear "Myshuno!" in both this game and that game.

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* SpeakingSimlish: The game uses some of the voice clips in ''TheSims''. It's not surprising when you hear "Myshuno!" in both this game and that game.game.
* WalkOnWater: Your golfers can traverse through water hazards that even serve as lakes or sea without trouble. Of course, they'd prefer if you build a bridge path.
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Not related to another game named ''[=SimGolf=]'' made by Maxis.
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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games and Maxis released to Windows back in 2002. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament!

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''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games Games, and Maxis Maxis, released to Windows back in 2002. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land. land that has been declared as a golf club. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers.customers with buildings and refreshments. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament!tournament in your club! Failure to make your guests happy causes them to eventually leave your club or cause tantrums (which then makes other golfers unhappy), whereas failing to win in a golf game makes you lose cash!

It is an [[JustOneMoreLevel addictive]] game that pretty much captures the player much like other Maxis sim games. And speaking of which, it takes cues from ''TheSims'', having a [[SpeakingSimlish similar language]], and even a mode where notable characters from said game acts as patrons of your club.

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* CommandAndConquerEconomy: In fact, the buildings you pick just drop down from the sky to where you decided to place them! Justified that you are the owner of the club after all.
* ConstructionAndManagementGame
* SimulationGame: Both a sports management and a construction simulator!
* SpeakingSimlish: The game uses some of the voice clips in ''TheSims''. It's not surprising when you hear "Myshuno!" in both this game and that game.
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->"[[SpeakingSimlish Myshuno]]!"
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->''"[[SpeakingSimlish Myshuno]]!"''
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''Sid Meier's SimGolf'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games and Maxis released to {{Windows}} in 2002. You play as a golf club owner

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''Sid Meier's SimGolf'' [=SimGolf=]'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games and Maxis released to {{Windows}} Windows back in 2002. You play as a professional golfer who owns a small patch of land. One part of your goal is to build a lucrative golf club ownerclub, expanding your lands and designing courses while providing excellent services to your customers. The other part is well, being a professional golfer. Accept challenges from players and pros using the courses you designed, winning money for you to spend in terraforming, before eventually hosting a tournament!
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->''"[[SpeakingSimlish Myshuno]]!"''
--''A random golfer''

''Sid Meier's SimGolf'' is a SimulationGame made by SidMeier, Firaxis Games and Maxis released to {{Windows}} in 2002. You play as a golf club owner

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