Another Golf game, this one has four courses, and is otherwise very unremarkable. It has a few different ways to swing, with a traditional power bar method or an analogue stick swing like CyberTiger. What I found baffling was that the target line shows the ideal shot, but there’s no indication as to where on the power bar you should aim for. I either massively overshot or undershot on every hit, not figuring out how to accurately aim the ball.

Putting was also even worse for this, sometimes a 25% power shot will send the ball flying off the other side of the green, while a 50% shot will have the ball fall very short. It’s just a rather tedious golf game that doesn’t come close to Mario Golf, which strangely remains the best “serious” golf game on the system.

Poor

While PGA European Tour wouldn’t last five minutes in the PC market, where the only thing people want from their golf games is photo-realism, it has the depth of gameplay underneats its ugliness to make it a viable choice on the N64. We had fun testing it out in the office which is a lot more than we can say for Waialae Country Club and the dysmal, Jap-only Glory of St. Andres. Of course, there’s no way we’d recommend it over Mario Golf, but if you’ve played that to death and you’re looking for a playable alternative, it’s really the only other option.

Martin Kitts, N64 Magazine #38. Review Score: 80%

Remake or remaster?

There are better golf games.

Official ways to get the game.

There’s no official way to get PGA European Tour Golf.