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 (1984 video game) the tee of the first hole with a total of eighteen to play. It was the first golf game to feature a power/accuracy bar for swinging the club. The power bar method has been used in most golf games since. The game has been ported to many other consoles after its release. Hudson Soft released a port of the game for the Japan-only PC-88 and Sharp X1 in 1985. The game was also ported to the Japan-only Famicom Disk System on February 21st, 1986. Another release was made for the Classic NES e-Reader series on Game Boy Advance. Both the