Play Links: Championship Course - Barton Creek Online

Game Overview

Links: Championship Course - Barton Creek is one of those old-school MS-DOS golf games that somehow made pixelated greens feel legitimately tense. You’re not just whacking a ball—you’re calculating wind, club choice, and the brutal slopes of Barton Creek’s layout, which has a habit of humbling you right when you think you’ve got it figured out.

The isometric view was pretty slick for its time, and the physics actually made sense, unlike some arcadey golf games where the ball magically sticks to the fairway. Miss your landing by a few yards? Enjoy hacking your way out of thick rough or watching your ball roll straight off a downhill green. It’s punishing, but in that satisfying way where you immediately want to try again.

What I love about this one is how quiet it feels—just you, the course, and the occasional groan when the wind messes up your perfect drive. If you’ve ever played the Links series, you know that mix of strategy and slight panic when lining up a putt. Still holds up if you’re into retro sports sims that don’t hold your hand.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".