Fades look like fades and slices look like slices. You can set up and hit every type of golf shot that you can in real life. Course conditions are modeled accurately and the terrain can greatly effect your score. Dry greens make it very difficult to put backspin on the ball. Normal or moist greens require a firm, solid stroke to move the ball any distance.
Wet greens are almost impossible to putt on at any distance.
Rough causes your ball to leave hot if you mis-hit it. Some have complained about the green conditions being too extreme at times, but I didn't notice anything that I haven't seen countless times on the courses I've played in real life. Mr. Chris Johnson of Gainesville, Florida is away. The courses themselves are visually pleasing, although they do lack a bit of the photo-realism found in the Links series and the detail in Golden Bear Challenge . These differences are more pronounced at lower resolutions, but at 1600 x 1200, the visuals are only slightly behind the competition.