Pine HollowA 3D golf game

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How many holes?

3par 12 9par 36 18par 72

Game mode

Solostroke play Vs botbeat the AI Scrambleteam with the AI Rouletterandom clubs

Camera Stays behind your ball and follows you. On a computer, scroll to zoom.
Aim Hold the arrow buttons, or tap a spot on the map to aim there.
Club Fourteen in the bag, one picked for you. Use the arrows or tap the name to open the bag.
Shape Tap the label under the ball to pick a shot: straight, draw, fade, hook, slice, stinger, punch, high or flop. Or drag the dot on the ball to shape it yourself.
Swing Put your finger on the golfer, drag down to take the club back (further down is more power), then push up past where you started to hit. Or hold the Swing button and let go. Full power is safe.
Read The gold dots show a full-power flight before wind.

Keyboard: arrow keys aim, space swings, up and down change club, B opens the bag.

Your bag

Real swing

Hold your phone in both hands like the grip of a club, with its strap round your wrist, in a clear space, and make your swing. The phone measures how fast your hands turn through impact. Your calibrated full swing equals full power, which carries the distances you entered for each club, so a softer swing goes shorter and a faster one goes a little further. Aim stays on the screen, and putts stay on the screen.

Sensors are off.

Recorded swings

None yet.

Your club distances

Enter how far you carry each club at full power, in metres. The game sets every club to match, so the dots and auto club pick use your numbers.

Driver

Maximum carry at full power, in metres.

Choose a shot

Pro shop

0 coins

DistanceLevel 0 of 5

Faster ball speed off every club except the putter.

Balls

Accessories

Bought once and kept for good. Gloves and shoes can be changed at any time, even mid-round, as in real golf.

Balls are sold in sleeves of 3. Hitting into water or out of bounds loses the ball in play; the range ball is free and never runs out. Earn coins by finishing holes: 3 for double bogey or worse, 8 bogey, 15 par, 30 birdie, 60 eagle, 3000 hole in one. Finishing a round pays a bonus: 10, 40 or 100 coins for 3, 9 or 18 holes.

Take relief

Rules of golf

The main rules of real golf in plain words, for stroke play (every stroke counts). Tap a section to open it.

1The aim and the score

Get the ball from the teeing area into the hole in as few strokes as possible. Your score for a hole is every stroke you make plus any penalty strokes.

In stroke play you must hole out on every hole. If you don't, you are disqualified, unless the competition uses a maximum-score format that caps each hole.

Par is the expected score for a good player. One under par is a birdie, two under an eagle, one over a bogey.

2Your equipment

You may carry no more than 14 clubs. Starting with more costs 2 strokes for each hole where you broke the rule, to a maximum of 4.
Clubs and balls must conform to the official equipment rules. You can't change how a club performs during a round.
Put an identifying mark on your ball. Playing someone else's ball is a 2-stroke penalty, and you must then go back and play your own.

3Teeing off

Tee the ball between the tee markers and no more than two club-lengths behind them. Playing from outside that area in stroke play is 2 strokes, and you must replay from inside it.
A tee peg may only be used on the teeing area.
The player with the lowest score on the previous hole traditionally goes first. In friendly stroke play, "ready golf" (whoever is ready plays) is encouraged.

4Play the ball as it lies

This is the heart of golf. You play the course as you find it and the ball where it stopped.

Don't improve your lie, stance or line of play by moving, bending or pressing things that are growing or fixed. Penalty: 2 strokes.
You may remove loose natural things like leaves, twigs and stones without penalty, as long as the ball doesn't move.
Away from the green, the player farthest from the hole normally plays first.
If you accidentally move your ball while searching for it, just put it back, with no penalty.

5Bunkers

Don't touch the sand with your club before the stroke: not in a practice swing, not behind the ball, not in the backswing. Penalty: 2 strokes.
You may remove loose stones and leaves in a bunker.
If you decide the ball is unplayable in a bunker, you can drop in the bunker for 1 stroke, or drop outside the bunker back on the line from the hole for 2 strokes.
Rake the bunker when you leave it.

6Water and other penalty areas

Water hazards are called penalty areas and are marked with red or yellow stakes or lines. You may play the ball from inside one with no penalty, and you may ground your club there. Or you can take relief for 1 penalty stroke:

Stroke and distance: play again from where you last hit.
Back on the line: drop anywhere on a line going back from the hole through the point where the ball last crossed into the area.
Red areas only, lateral relief: drop within two club-lengths of where it crossed the edge, no nearer the hole.

7Out of bounds and lost balls

A ball beyond the white stakes or line is out of bounds. A ball not found within 3 minutes of starting to search is lost.
Either way the penalty is stroke and distance: 1 stroke, and you play again from where you last hit.
If you think your ball might be lost or out of bounds, announce and hit a provisional ball to save walking back.
Many clubs allow a casual local rule instead: drop near where the ball went out, or on the nearest fairway, for 2 strokes. This is not allowed in serious competitions.

8Unplayable ball

Anywhere except a penalty area, you may declare your ball unplayable, for example in a bush or against a tree. For 1 stroke, choose one:

Replay from where you last hit.
Drop back on the line from the hole through the ball.
Drop within two club-lengths of the ball, no nearer the hole.

9On the putting green

You may mark, lift and clean your ball, then replace it exactly.
You may repair almost any damage on the green, including pitch marks and spike marks.
You can putt with the flagstick in or out. Hitting it when it's left in is no penalty.
In stroke play, if your putt from the green hits another ball resting on the green, the penalty is 2 strokes. Ask the other player to mark it first.

10Relief without penalty

You get a free drop, within one club-length of the nearest point of relief and no nearer the hole, from:

abnormal course conditions: casual water, ground under repair and animal holes
immovable obstructions such as cart paths and sprinkler heads
a ball embedded in its own pitch mark in the general area
a wrong green

Drop from knee height, straight down.

11Etiquette and pace of play

Shout "Fore!" if your ball might hit someone.
Stay still and quiet while others play, and don't stand in their line.
Replace divots, repair pitch marks and rake bunkers.
Keep up: aim to play each stroke within about 40 seconds when it's your turn.

How the game applies these rules

Water: red and yellow stakes mark every penalty area. After a splash you choose stroke and distance or back on the line, plus lateral relief for red areas, each for 1 stroke. Playing it out of the water isn't offered, because the ball sinks.
Out of bounds: white stakes mark the boundary. Stroke and distance, 1 stroke.
Unplayable ball: use the "Unplayable?" button for the three 1-stroke options. In a bunker you also get the 2-stroke drop outside the bunker.
Holing out: every hole is played until the ball is in, with no stroke limit.
Equipment: distance upgrades can only be bought between rounds, and you can only change ball model on the tee or between holes, except when relief lets you use a new ball.
Clubs: the bag holds exactly 14.
Cart paths: an immovable obstruction, so a ball stopping on one gets a free drop (Rule 16).
Gloves and shoes: not clubs, so you may change them during a round.
Not needed in this game: provisional balls (you always see where the ball finishes), ground under repair (these courses have none), and honours (you play alone). The flagstick can be left in or taken out when you're near the green; a ball that hits it bounces off a flexible pin, and a firm putt that hits it squarely often drops.

Summarised in plain words from the Rules of Golf published by The R&A and the USGA. For competitions, check the official rules and the club's local rules.

Pine HollowA 3D golf game

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