| Free Online Golf Games are the digitized and virtual | | | | of nostalgic arcade golf fun. Others employ the latest |
| versions of the very popular and very ancient physical | | | | technologies to replicate, as far as is possible, the real |
| club and ball style game (called Golf) that can be | | | | physical game of golf presenting very accurate |
| played on the world wide web via the internet enabling | | | | simulations of the challenges encountered on a real |
| you to play on your screen rather than on a real green. | | | | golf course. Such as variable wind speed and direction |
| The other defining feature of free online golf games is | | | | combined with the ballistic variables of different types |
| of course that they can be played for free (access to | | | | of golf clubs and the all important 'lie of the land' like the |
| the game is devoid of any charges or costs) which | | | | gradients of the putting green. |
| helps open up such games to a much wider audience; | | | | The employment of technologies such as Adobe Flash |
| first by removing that which prevents most people | | | | (previously Macromedia and Shockwave Flash) have |
| from partaking in 'luxury' recreational and entertainment | | | | enabled Flash golf games to be considered by many |
| activities - having a prohibitive cost associated with it. | | | | digital golfers the market leaders in free online golf |
| Secondly by virtue of the inter-connectivity presented | | | | games, certainly from the point of view of graphics but |
| by the internet & world wide web enabling those in | | | | also game play - accurately simulating the usual golfing |
| less developed countries to access games that they | | | | features such as bunkers and water hazards. |
| previously would not have been able to. | | | | The almost photographically real graphics capabilities |
| As a result we can conclude that free online golf | | | | of Flash has also empowered developers to very |
| games, and other free on-line gaming genres, have | | | | accurately replicate well known golf courses (for |
| globally democratized this field of sports related | | | | example St Andrews in Scotland, home of the Open |
| entertainment, subsequently improving global access to, | | | | and claim to being the first known Golf course in the |
| and participation in, what originally was a game purely | | | | world) from its surrounding scenery to the accurate |
| for westerners or, at the very least, those on western | | | | representation of the 'lie' and gradients of the putting |
| level incomes. An 'off the shelf' computer game such | | | | greens, a truly exceptional achievement that must |
| as a golf game could retail at anywhere between $15 | | | | have taken a lot of time consuming and very hard |
| & $50, a months (or even a years) wages in some | | | | work to get right. |
| parts of the world subsequently preventing 80% of the | | | | If your a golfing enthusiast wanting to play a round right |
| worlds population from being able to afford to play. | | | | now but its bad weather, or its the evening, or your |
| The digital fairways of the virtual world are now open | | | | clubs have been abducted by Aliens, or your getting on |
| to anyone and everyone who has access to an | | | | a bit and can not quite go the distance any more, or |
| internet connected computer. | | | | your simply not a member of (or have access) to a |
| Free on-line golf games come in varying forms, some | | | | golf course then be rest assured that there is a quality |
| replicate the 'arcade' style versions of the game that | | | | game of golf to be had right now that need not cost |
| you may have come across on early home | | | | you a penny or a dime in the form of free online golf |
| computers which are played 'on the fly' for a quick bit | | | | games. |