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The '''''Golf''''' series is a series of games by [[Nintendo]] based upon the {{wp|golf|sport of the same name}}. The player golfs through 18 holes in a course by using various clubs, taking stock of wind and grass type while avoiding hazards such as water and sand traps. The courses are generally based on real-world countries and regions, though the courses and holes themselves are fictional. Due to [[Mario]]'s role as Nintendo's primary mascot, he is used as a player character in almost every game in the series, eventually leading to the ''[[Mario Golf (series)|Mario Golf]]'' subseries that focuses on him and his world rather than realistic holes.

|Nintendo's original golf game, programmed by [[Satoru Iwata]], is a simple game of 18 holes. Along with its original releases on the [[Family Computer]] and [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], it has been ported numerous times, including the [[Family Computer Disk System|Famicom Disk System]], numerous Japanese personal computers, and the [[Nintendo PlayChoice-10]]. The character in it resembles a more realistic portrayal of Mario, wearing white and blue as Player 1 and red and black as Player 2, though he is sometimes identified as Mario and other times as a generic character nicknamed "Ossan." Unlike in most later games in the series, the holes lack any distinction between rough grass and fairway, while trees solely act as out-of-bounds areas.

|Despite sharing a title with the original game, the Game Boy ''Golf'' has 36 holes spread across a Japan Course and a U.S.A. Course, similar to the previous separate Disk System games, which it is also otherwise more similar to. Unlike in the previous games, there is no "back view" of Mario, instead showing a heavily zoomed-in version of the bird's-eye map. Multiplayer is no longer done on a single controller in a turn-based fashion, instead requiring two Game Boys and a link cable.