OpenSGolf

0.6 (28 October 2026)

Highlights

• Smoother play. The short freezes as golfers came and went are gone, and the course draws faster, most of all in browsers.
• Enhanced graphics keep up on big screens and slower machines. In a browser they draw at up to 1440p and stretch to a 4K screen, and when the game runs slowly they ease off a step at a time by themselves.
• Make HD graphics from your own SimGolf files (beta): an AI upscaler built into the game redraws the art sharper, on your own computer or phone, while you play (Preferences > Graphics). It switches itself on when it is done, and Remove HD graphics undoes it. Not in browsers yet.
• A new cast of cartoon faces for the free graphics’ golfers.
• Checks for a new version when the game starts and offers it, saying nothing if there is none (Preferences > More switches it off).
• The terrain brush’s preview keeps to its tile when zoomed out (#115).
• The game says when some of your SimGolf files cannot be read, instead of quietly leaving things off the course.
• New options: aim and swing with the mouse the way touch screens do; right click puts the tool away (B on a controller), so a brush left in hand no longer undoes a hole’s tee or green; and on wide screens the interface now sits at the screen’s edges with Classic graphics too (on big TVs the dock and money no longer sit in the middle; Looks switches it back); Sandbox: no new dandelions; and [ now slows the game down as ] speeds it up, each stopping at the end instead of going round.
• Desert names as in the original: the desert’s Brush and Ravine buttons now carry the names (and descriptions) the original gives their pictures, so the placing preview matches too, and the Fix the desert’s swapped Ravine and Brush art option, which only made up for the wrong names, is gone. Undo’s Reset to and the shot panel’s lie use the theme’s names (desert, rough, canyon and the rest) instead of the Parkland ones.
• Desert rough is edged with grass as in the original: no more sand rings round buildings and landmarks, and the rough reaches the map’s edge (#118). As in the original, the desert’s rough also counts as its own ground for weeds, spectators and what golfers think of it.

Fix releases

• 0.6.10: desert ponds draw the Desert’s sandy shore again, keeping the grassy shore only on the edges that meet a tee, green, fairway or sand trap, as the original does (#161); a golfer becoming a member, or moving up a level, plays the club’s fanfare with the message (#162).
• 0.6.9: Hungarian ő Ő ű Ű are drawn in the game’s own fonts, made from their ó Ó ú Ú (ő was blank and Ő another symbol with the original game’s fonts) (#153); with Enhanced graphics, the blimp’s reflection sits below the water’s surface again instead of over its shadow, pointing the blimp’s way (#147).
• 0.6.8: the game’s text draws Central European letters (Hungarian ő ű, Polish, Czech and the rest) and the typographic quotes, dashes and ellipsis („ ” – …), for translations (#153). A new gameplay extra, off by default: Keep the land offer, to buy land when you like after the County commissioner approves an expansion (from puddin11).
• 0.6.7: on a touch screen, a one-finger drag with no tool in hand only scrolls the view (it no longer picks up the employee under it, or opens a golfer’s card); the aim’s plate moves aside so it no longer hides the end of the shot; with Enhanced graphics, no hard red and purple circles after rain. From puddin11.
• 0.6.6: with Enhanced graphics, the blimp’s reflection in the water points the way the blimp does (#147).
• 0.6.5: undo (Ctrl+Z, the touch Undo button) puts back only what the click changed and its money, and no longer winds the clock, the golfers and the money earned since back; what was built since (a tournament’s TV towers) stays. Placing,

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