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Making the Cut

A deep golf career simulation. Build a player from unknown rookie to world #1 across a 20-year career. Manage your form, your team, your reputation, and your schedule as you climb the world rankings. Inspired by Football Manager and Out of the Park Baseball.

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About the Game

Build a professional golf career. Make the Majors. Reach the Hall of Fame.

You start as a name no one knows, with everything still to prove. Over a 20-year career, you'll fight your way through developmental tours, qualify for majors, build a team around you, sign sponsors, and chase the world #1 ranking that defines a career.

This is professional golf the way professional golf actually works, with schedules, rivalries, sponsor obligations, form slumps, comebacks, contract negotiations, and the slow accumulation of reputation that turns an unknown into a household name.

A career, not a tournament.

Every season is a calendar of decisions. Which events do you play? When do you rest? How hard do you train, and at what cost to your form? Burn out chasing every prize purse and your stats collapse heading into the season finale. Skip the wrong tournament and you lose potential prize money, and run the risk of losing favour with fans and sponsors.

Stats that tell a story.

Your golfer is defined by dozens of attributes, like driving, iron play, putting, mental game, stamina, consistency under pressure. Every tournament refines them. Every coach you hire, every training block you commit to, every rivalry that gets in your head shows up in the numbers. Watch your form across a season and you'll see the shape of your career.

Build a team. Build a brand.

Hire a caddie, a swing coach, a sports psychologist, a mental coach. Each one shapes how you play and how you handle pressure. Sign with sponsors and balance the money against the obligations. Climb the world rankings and the offers get bigger, and so do the expectations.

Broadcast-quality presentation.

Leaderboards, tournament coverage, world rankings, season summaries, every screen is built to feel like the real thing. This is golf as television presents it, applied to your career.

Inspired by the greats of the sports management genre.

If you've spent years with Football Manager, Out of the Park Baseball or Motorsport Manager, you already know what kind of game this is. If you've never played a sports management sim, this is a great one to start with, depth where you want it, clarity where you need it.