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Meadow Links is where the story starts: soft greens, morning dew, a mill pond and an old stone wall. Seaside Dunes has sand blown across its greens and a rock pool waiting for short putts. In the Orchard in Autumn, old apple trees drop leaves on every green. On the Misty Moor, mist hides the far end of the green until late morning, so you read the slope instead of looking at the flag. Winter Green is covered in frost from the first hole to the last.

Each course is harder than the one before. The slopes get steeper, the brush has less in it, and from the Orchard onward the aim line only shows the straight start of the putt, not the curve. The target gets tighter as well: Meadow Links lets you take two putts over par, the Dunes and the Orchard one, and the Moor and Winter Green none.

Each course is played as a single walk from first light to lantern light. The first green lies in the pink light of dawn, midday is bright, and by the ninth green the lanterns are lit, the stars are out and fireflies drift over the grass. The dew is heaviest in the morning, and on the moor the mist thins as the day goes on.

Between greens a hand-drawn map of the course shows the footpath, the keeper's cottage, the greens you have brought back and the scorecard. The old keeper's note for the next hole is written underneath. You can leave a round part way and carry on later from the next green.

The valley's greens were kept for years by Elsie May, who signed her notes E.M. She lost something on almost every green: a brass ball marker, a ship in a bottle, a pair of wool gloves, a photograph. Each one lies under sand, leaves or heather, and turns up when you brush its cover away. Every keepsake comes with a line about her, and together they tell her story.

Keepsakes are optional. They don't change your score, and the scorecard and the valley map show how many you have found on each course.

Snails cross some greens and leave slick silver trails that speed the ball up, the same as brushing. Sprinklers sweep back and forth on a timer and wet the grass again. Butterflies settle on the green and fly off when the ball comes near. Ponds are hazards: a ball that rolls in is fished out and played again from where it was struck, with one putt added.

Each course has its own sound: songbirds in the meadow, the sea and gulls on the dunes, a wood pigeon in the orchard, wind and curlews on the moor, and a robin in the snow. The birds go quiet toward evening and crickets or an owl take over.

The first time you play, a short How to Play guide with moving pictures of each move opens before the first green. You can open it again from the title screen or the pause menu at any time. The first green of Meadow Links has no covers to sweep, and the old keeper leaves short notes at the top of the screen, one move at a time, until you have tried each one.

Your best round on each course, which courses you have kept, the keepsakes you have found, a round in progress, which tips you have already seen and your sound setting are saved on Unihfy Games in this browser.

Your score is the number of putts under par for a full round of nine greens, so a round of 21 putts on a par-23 course scores 2. A round over par scores below zero.