The normal short-game Chip can no longer create an unexplained triple by itself. It can still make a double, while penalty strokes and the aggressive Flop retain their full downside.
Short-game choices now show a clearer green, yellow, and red risk ladder for Punch, Chip, and Flop.
Career rounds now show a live leaderboard after every hole, with every rival scored only through the same hole you have completed.
Career play now shows your current position, score for the round, and cumulative event score together.
Added 10 courses: Prestonwood SAS Composite, CCNC Dogwood, Kingsbarns, Tobacco Road, Tot Hill Farm, East Lake, Valhalla, Oakland Hills South, Inverness, and Olympic Club Lake. The roster is now 63.
Added all 10 new courses to Unlimited, Career, and the regular weekly tournament rotation.
Reduced ordinary-distance three-putts, especially when lagging from 20 to 30 feet.
The safest short-game play can no longer create a double- or triple-bogey blow-up unless a real penalty stroke is involved.
Par 4s of 350 yards or less can now be driven with an aggressive tee shot, with correct eagle, birdie, and missed-green scoring.
Par-5 second-shot reach now uses the actual yardage and lie, including reachable shots from rough or trouble, without adding a phantom recovery stroke when the green cannot be reached.
Rounds now keep the exact gameplay rules they started with, so a scoring update cannot change an open round or split a competitive field.
Career players can now develop Driving, Approach, Short Game, and Putting from rank 1 to 5. Skill points improve the real odds for that part of the game without guaranteeing a score.
Career promotion and relegation now show the exact two-season thresholds and the form results currently counting toward movement.
Career Legacy breakdowns are collapsed by default and grouped by season, with promotion, Championship, trophy, and point-category details available on demand.
Players can retire an untouched Career season, preserve its Legacy history, and immediately restart as a new numbered Career with fresh rivals.
Scoring now plays more like casual golf: real approach yardage changes proximity, and the displayed putt slope and break affect the roll.
Previous-hole momentum is now flavor only, so a bad hole cannot secretly make the next hole harder.
Post-hole reviews now include seeded weather and course events in the exact odds shown, with permanent safeguards against unfair safe-shot blow-ups.
Tee-shot odds now separate ideal attacking position from an ordinary fairway, making each decision's reward and trouble risk clearer.
Weekly tournaments now reject extreme shared round seeds while preserving identical conditions for the entire field.
Added Career Mode, an unlimited personal tour with four events per season, 19 recurring rivals, promotion and relegation, Tour Rating, and permanent Legacy progress.
New Career seasons use four cumulative rounds per event, for 16 rounds per season. Every round has one attempt, safely resumes in place, and the next season opens after all four events are complete.
The best three event totals count toward the season standings, and the dashboard explains the exact promotion and relegation requirements.
Every fourth completed season can unlock an optional Championship for Challenger and Pro players.
Completed season standings remain available after the next season opens.
Career season standings now show the full 20-player field from the moment a season starts, and add each event's results once you have completed that event.
Career event leaderboards now update after every completed round, showing the whole field's cumulative score through the round you have finished. Later rounds stay hidden, and starting or resuming a round reveals nothing.
Career rounds count in player profiles and Hall of Fame course records, where they are labeled Career instead of Practice.
The Legacy score on the Career dashboard now opens a full breakdown: your current title, progress to the next one, and every award you have earned with its reason, where it happened, and a running balance. Legacy is permanent and never decreases.
Fixed round results overstating how many strokes a score finished over par.
Fixed aggressive par-5 second shots from rough or trouble being scored as though they reached the green in two.
Adjusted par-5 go-for-green results so long second shots produce fewer automatic close eagle looks.
Reduced excessive short-game blow-ups, moving more missed-green results into the par-to-bogey range.
Added 5 courses: Congressional Blue, Royal County Down, Ballybunion Old, Sand Hills, and Turnberry Ailsa. The roster is now 53.
Added sorting and filtering to the courses page. Sort by most played, hardest, or A–Z, and filter by difficulty, style, region, or whether you've played a course yet.
Added a round count to each course card, so you can see what everyone else is playing.
Every course except the reserved major venues is now in the weekly tournament rotation — 48 in all, so a full cycle runs about eleven months.
Royal County Down joins Augusta, St Andrews, Pinehurst, and Royal Birkdale as a course held back for special weeks.
Weekly tournaments now advance on a schedule instead of waiting for someone to open the page, so a week can no longer be skipped.
The champion banner now clears itself when a week produces no winner, instead of leaving an older champion up.
Added 5 courses: Baltusrol Lower, Quaker Ridge, Fishers Island, Oak Hill East, and Somerset Hills. The roster is now 48.
Fixed the weekly tournament champion never being crowned once the next week's event started, which left the previous winner showing on the results banner.
Reduced how often water and ocean hazards add a penalty stroke. Hazard-heavy courses had been playing up to a stroke and a half per round harder than intended.
Fixed the tournament page reading “Starts Monday” while the countdown beside it ran to Tuesday.
Added 5 courses: Prairie Dunes, Seminole, Riviera, Muirfield Village, and TPC Potomac. The roster is now 43.
Added all 5 new courses to the regular weekly tournament rotation.
Added Hall of Fame trophies: hole in one, two eagles in one round, three sub-par rounds in a row, a −15 round, 250 and 500 rounds played, and breaking par on 15 and 25 courses.
Added career birdie and eagle counters that climb as you play.
Fixed the birdie and eagle counters showing no number on public profiles.
Restored the course name, play mode (practice, daily, tournament, or challenge), and signature-hole labels on the play card.
Fixed the result screen labeling tournament and challenge rounds as practice.
Par-5 choices now distinguish a layup-and-wedge from going for the green in two, and results state whether you reached in two or three.
Added 5 courses: Royal Dornoch, Carnoustie, Royal Troon, Whispering Pines, and Camargo Club. The roster is now 38.
Expanded weekly tournament rotation to every eligible regular course, including TPC Sawgrass.
Added hazard-aware shot results: water and ocean penalties now add a stroke, with specific narration for water, island greens, coastal hazards, and bunkers.
Added rare, fully scored golf moments including holes-in-one, approach and wedge hole-outs, chip-ins, bunker hole-outs, and albatrosses.
Improved round reliability during temporary sign-in service rate limits.
Added yardage-book-style hole maps with distinct layouts for par, doglegs, bunkers, water, and island greens.
Updated the play screen with a map-focused layout and a scorecard-style hole result view.
Added contextual hole guidance and visible green, yellow, and red risk ratings to shot choices.
Putt make and three-putt rates now change with the exact distance to the hole.
Hole results now state the putt count explicitly, including three-putt pars.
Updated the visual design across Home, Courses, Tournament, Challenges, Leaderboard, Hall of Fame, and other screens.
Fixed ball markers appearing in water after non-penalty shots.
Course selection now shows your lowest completed round for each course.
Weekly tournaments now begin on Tuesday and automatically repair missing or stale tournament schedules.
Added the previous tournament champion to the tournament results banner.
Added bot challenges with live head-to-head progress during the round.
Added 5 courses: The Country Club (Brookline), Los Angeles Country Club, National Golf Links of America, Muirfield, and Royal Melbourne. The roster is now 33.
Weekly tournaments now rotate courses each week. Previously every tournament used the same course.
Added the ability to hand-pick a course for specific tournament weeks.
Fixed the tournament page showing the wrong course name when the tournament course differed from the default.
The post-hole odds reveal now covers every decision, not just the tee shot: approach, putting, and short game.
Putting odds show your chance of a one-putt, two-putt, and three-putt for each option (Lag, Roll it, Charge).
Added 5 courses: Payne's Valley, Bandon Dunes, Chambers Bay, Arcadia Bluffs, Pacific Dunes. The roster is now 28.
Added a live cut line to the tournament page during rounds 1 and 2, showing the score currently at the cut.
Added a back link at the top of the tournament page.
Weekly tournaments launched. One course, four rounds, cumulative score against par, a cut after two rounds, and a trophy for the winner.
Everyone in a tournament plays identical hole conditions each round.
Tournament rounds are excluded from your streak, the daily leaderboard, trophies, and the Hall of Fame.
Added a Tournament Champion trophy.
Fixed the home page tournament card showing a stale countdown after a tournament went live.
Added an odds reveal after each hole, showing the tee-shot probabilities you faced for each decision.
Added a How It Works page explaining scoring, decisions, and how variance works.