I can say that Hot Shots Golf 3 manages to capture those qualities that make the golf so addictive and seamlessly translates them into videogame form. Theres something intrinsically pleasing about the game–whether its the languid pace, the beauty of the courses, or the Zen-like state a player reaches when in the zone, I cant say. That such a deceptively simple game has managed to transfix so many people never ceases to amaze me.

From there, we eventually arrive at the golf of today–a game played and revered by millions of people. This ban, and countless others in subsequent years, went largely ignored.īy 1744, several men formed the Company of Gentlemen Golfers, the first golf club in the world. The King was concerned that men were too busy playing golf to worry about practicing their archery in order to be prepared for skirmishes with the British. Its also hard to believe that such an innocuous game could be responsible for defeat on the battlefield, too, but history notes that King James II banned the game with a Scottish Act of Parliament in 1457. It's hard to believe that the golf of today–a complex game that crosses age and demographic lines around the globe–was most likely created by a group of bored Scottish fishermen who used a crooked stick to smack pebbles toward rabbit holes.

Noted author Mark Twain once said that golf is a good walk spoiled–clearly, hed never had an opportunity to play Hot Shots Golf 3.

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