Golf scores (scoring an "even" in stroke play will always give a Stableford score of 36), discouraging the tendency to abandon the entire game after playing a particularly bad hole (a novice playing by strict rules may score as high as an 8 or 10 on a single difficult hole; their Stableford score for the hole would be zero, which puts them only two points behind par no matter how badly they played), and the ability to simply pick up one's ball once it is impossible to score any points for the hole, which speeds play. The USGA and R&A sanction
Golf Zero of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Golf Zero Golf Zero is a 2017 platformer golfing game developed by Colin Lane Games AB. The game tasks the player with avoiding hazards, jumping across chasms and staying alive like any platformer. However, the player has to golf a ball into the hole at the end of the level to complete it (instead of making it to the end alive). The player is given three shots to get one ball into the hole. "Golf Zero" received mostly positive reviews. "TouchArcade" rated the game 4.5 out of 5 stars. Metacritic gave the game a