New

• Tutorial: Austin Ace takes you round Ace Academy, his practice course, then takes you on in a qualifier at Puddle Pines.
• Every match ends on a podium, with a trophy, fireworks and confetti for the winner. Holes-in-one get their own celebration that the whole lobby sees.
• The Practice Ground is the new waiting room, with a driving range, a short-game corner and carts to mess about in.
• Hollow Hop is a new par 3, and Puddle Pines is rebuilt around a creek with footbridges, a cart bridge and stepping stones.
• Hosts get more match options: random wind per hole and ball collision settings, each with a tooltip.
• Rewatch a hole from the result card, plus new settings: metric or imperial units, hidden name tags, a ping readout and a What's new screen after each update.

Improved

• New sounds for every club, landings and the cup, plus an announcer, a cheering crowd and fresh "Fore!" shouts.
• Each power-up has its own colour, a burst when you grab it, an aura everyone can see and a HUD bar that blinks before it runs out.
• Golfers, carts and balls splash and ripple in water, and carts leave skid marks.
• Fewer stutters on wooded courses, the first splash, getting into a cart and the flyover. Online, your ball leaves the club the moment you hit it.

Fixed

• Balls no longer roll on for ages down slopes, get stuck between platforms or fall through the floor, and they pass through golfers so nobody can block your shot.
• Hosting no longer makes duplicate lobbies, joining no longer gets stuck loading, parked carts stay put on slopes, and a crash loading a level on Mac is gone.

New

• Two new courses in the rotation: Midnight Canyon, played at night, and Wind Tunnel Run, an obstacle course where big fans push your ball around.
• Wind: each hole rolls a random wind speed and direction, shown on a compass in the HUD. It only pushes the ball in the air, so putts are never affected. You can also shape shots now, with a draw or fade, a high flop or a low stinger.
• Match options at the starter booth: the host picks which courses to play, in order or shuffled, plus wind strength (Off, Calm, Strong or Wild) and the hole-out timer. The host can also end a hole from the pause menu.
• Hole-out moments: when your shot is heading for the cup, the camera follows it in. The cup is a real hole the ball drops into, everyone gets a feed of who just holed out, and you can watch your chip-ins again or save them as video clips from the new Replays screen.
• An Unstuck button in the pause menu moves you to nearby open ground when you get wedged somewhere.
• A new animated 3D intro when the game starts, and a redesigned start menu.

Improved

• Golfers feel livelier: knockdowns are floppier and funnier, jumps squash and stretch, running is quicker but slows in bunkers and rough, and clubs sit properly in your hands.
• Puddle Pines, Blizzard Basin and Misty Loch Links got fog, treelines, distant hills, birds and clouds around them, so the courses no longer end at a hard edge.
• Full 20-player matches run smoother, and Settings has graphics presets, with Low picked for you on laptops with built-in graphics.
• Settings has a new Controls tab listing every key and a short description for each setting. Key prompts follow your keyboard layout and controller, Spanish is fully translated, and menus, scoreboards and the swing meter got a cleaner look.

Fixed

• Balls no longer sink into the ground, fall through the floor or get stuck under a putting green. Cannons fire again, and a ball only splashes when it lands in water.
• Online: no more starting a match under the level, crashes at the end of a hole or after rejoining, golfers spinning on other screens, mismatched power-ups, a missing ball in the waiting room, a scoreboard that didn't reset, or a blank result card when someone else holed out. Quitting also leaves your party properly.

New

• Ball trails are now a smooth ribbon, and you can pick the trail colour in the Customization menu.
• Hitting off the grass throws up a puff of turf, and a ball that lands in water splashes.
• The Steam lobby browser has Host and Join tabs, sorting by ping or player count, and a Friends Only filter.

Improved

• The menus, lobby, customization and settings screens have a new look. Escape in the pre-match lobby or the customize menu now takes you back a step instead of opening the pause menu.
• The spectator screen stays out of the way: your score sits bottom right with a little animation, and you can flick to the previous player as well as the next.
• Bots are much better at getting round a course. They come in a mix of skill levels, aim away from water, find their way around obstacles and run to their ball instead of teleporting to it.

Fixed

• Golfers in online games could get stuck aiming with a frozen swing meter and no controls. Fixed.
• Saw traps that move along a path now hit you where they actually are, not back at their starting spot.
• The scoreboard counts scores correctly again and shows the right birdie and bogey icons.
• The green on Blizzard Basin no longer floats above the ground.
• The course flyover before tee-off no longer gets skipped.
• The lobby info panel no longer vanishes when the Steam lobby list refreshes, and lobby pings no longer show -1ms.

Improved

• Online matches stutter less, feel more responsive and send far less data, and we fixed the random hitches some players saw when playing online.
• Nothing can knock you over while you're lining up a shot. Saws, spinners, carts and other golfers pass straight through you.
• Times on the scoreboard are whole seconds now, without the decimals.

Fixed

• Moving platforms no longer hitch or sit in the wrong spot when you stand on them in someone else's game.
• Spinner obstacles no longer slow down when a golfer runs into them.
• Golf carts now knock over every golfer, not just the host.
• Other golfers no longer get stuck in a falling pose when you watch them online.
• Your golfer no longer gets stuck after finishing a swing.
• The running sound no longer keeps playing while you're ragdolled.
• Pickups in the waiting room no longer respawn twice in the same spot.
• Fixed a scoreboard crash and a network error that could trip up online matches.

New

• Death Bridge, a new obstacle course with a cannon, long saws and double saws.
• Ragdolls: get hit by a golf cart or a saw and your golfer goes limp and tumbles, and everyone in the match sees the same tumble.
• New putting greens on every course, with real bumps and slopes.
• While you line up a putt, a coloured grid on the green shows which way it breaks.
• A new-look scoreboard, with icons in place of some of the text.

Improved

• The flyover camera moves more smoothly.

Fixed

• A perfect shot could freeze your golfer and stop you hitting the ball again.
• Your golfer could get stuck aiming when playing online.
• Golf carts sometimes spawned in the ground at the start of a match.
• Balls sent down a pipe now drop into the cup like they're meant to.
• Settings not loading on Mac.
• Saws and other obstacles knocking golfers off in odd directions.

New

• Quick Match, with a scoreboard for each hole and one for the whole match.
• The swipers on Floaty Fairways now shove golfers around, and everyone in the match sees the same shove.
• Moving platforms on Floaty Fairways carry you and your ball along for the ride.
• Saw traps on Hurry Up Hill knock you flying when they catch you.

Improved

• Spring pads are a bit more forgiving about when you jump.
• Putts roll closer to the power you picked, with the ball behaving better on the green.

Fixed

• You couldn't properly hit a ball that had stopped on a slope.

New

• Parties: create or join one with a code from the start screen, see who's in it and what it's up to, and follow the leader into their game.
• A window size option in the display settings.
• Your golf bag now shows up on the start screen.

Improved

• Bots run for a golf cart when one is close by, and celebrate with an emote when they finish a hole again.
• Golfers fall a little faster, so jumps and drops feel less floaty.

Fixed

• Aiming felt laggy when you weren't the one hosting.
• Matches that sometimes never finished loading.
• A freeze that could happen while spectating.
• Screens that hung around too long, like the countdown staying up after the match had started, and buttons showing up in the wrong place.
• Your camera not resetting when you went back to running after a shot, and the scout cam not working at the waiting room's driving range.
• Golf carts getting stuck in the ground at the start of a match should happen less often.

It helps a lot with blind shots, and gives you a better idea of where your ball will go if you hit a perfect shot. Where it actually lands still depends on your power and accuracy. 🏌️

There's now an end-of-level score screen. Once you've holed out it hands you over to spectating, so you can watch your friends struggle to finish. 😆