Jack Nicklaus Perfect Golf

Jack Nicklaus Perfect Golf is a golf game built around ball-flight physics developed using launch monitors. You play on courses, choose from more than 20 game modes and can compete online against other players. The default game includes over 12 courses, including a driving range and a dedicated practice facility.

Game modes

Modes include StrokePlay, MatchPlay and Skins scoring, along with team formats such as Foursomes and Greensomes (Alternate Shot), Better ball and Scramble. Online, you can find opponents through the multiplayer lobby and matchmaking, chat, or create a private password-protected game for friends. Play uses full peer-to-peer multiplayer.

Courses and conditions

The game includes hundreds of user-designed courses. Its official courses are georeferenced to real-world locations, so the sun rises and sets in the correct place and at the correct time for the day of the year. You can set the time of day and watch the lighting change as it progresses.

Course conditions include adjustable green speeds based on official STIMP measurements from 8 to 14, as well as three firmness settings. You can also customize course contrast, brightness and saturation, weather, sun rays, lens flares, sky scattering and other visual options.

Swing and difficulty

Five difficulty levels and adjustable assists let you tailor the challenge. Swing options include two swing meters, mouse motion swing, and real-time swings using a controller or mouse; several simulation options are also available.

Cameras and replays

Choose player, spectator or follow cameras, along with several replay cameras available after a shot, including in online multiplayer. The free camera lets you move around the course at any time, whether to look over a hole, line up a putt or watch a shot from above.

Online tools

The integrated multiplayer lobby includes matchmaking and course checking. An API lets external tournament sites connect to the game for real-time online scoring and tracking; tournaments hosted on those sites appear in the tournament lobby, including public, private and official Perfect Golf tournaments. A separate API supports hardware integrations.

Course design

Course Forge, the game's golf-course design software, is available as a separate download with a non-commercial-use licence.