Golf

Golf is a in-game activity where players hit Golf Balls into Golf Cups using Golf Clubs. Golf supplies can be purchased from the Golfer NPC. Golf courses are not naturally-occurring and must be built. Due to the large size of golf courses and the optional nature of golf, it's likely that many players will experience golf in the form of custom maps.

Setting Up
First of all, you need to get the items to build your course. You will need the basic components: a Golf Ball of any color, any Golf Club, a Golf Cup, and a Golf Tee to place the ball.

Playing
To play golf, either place a golf tee and then put a ball on it by pressing on the tee, or just drop the ball on the ground. Then, use one of the four types of clubs to hit it, those being the Driver, the Iron, the Wedge, and the Putter. The goal is to get the ball into the hole in as few hits or "strokes" as possible. Using the Golf Whistle will return the ball to its previous position with a one-stroke penalty.

Golf Score
Separate from the regular golf scoring system of stroke count, golf score is a statistic used to track a character's overall experience with playing golf. The golf score is calculated based on the number of strokes used and the total of the Euclidean distances of each shot. That is, by drawing a straight line between each location a shot is taken, and where the ball subsequently lands, the total distance will be the total length of all those lines. The calculated score is then rounded down before being added to the character's accumulated score. The exact score before rounding is calculated using the following formula:

A player can accumulate a maximum total score of 1,000,000,000. The Golfer's shop inventory will expand as the player increases their total score, but will not expand after 2000.

Tips

 * You can use the same level location for an Old One's Army arena and driving range. Putting a tee at one end and a cup at the other can give you plenty of points using the driver.
 * If you put multiple golf cups followed by a large 1 block wide wall at the end, you can increase your 1 shot chance significantly and therefore increase the score points you gain. Also mowing the entire location helps, as balls bounce much higher and further on mowed grass.
 * On a large world, you can also set up a tee at the top of your Hellevator and using a putter to putt down into the Underworld.
 * Since the camera follows the golf ball once shot, it can be easy to use golf to search your world for Floating Islands. Simply put down a Golf Tee and use a Wedge or Iron club to launch the golf ball upwards. This has the added benefit of being faster and cheaper than most other early game methods as the golf ball travels fast without any additional purchases needed for each shot.
 * Using a Golf Tee will automatically place a golf ball on it even if the player has no golf balls in their inventory. If the player already has a tee, there's little reason for the player to buy golf balls unless to dye into different colors.