Improving Your Character

Character Skins
Using Single Player Mode, you can create and customize your appearance and clothing as you see fit. You can save up to 8 of these "skins" and swap between them from the "Options - Customize" menu in the Home area. If you want to create a lot of skins, you can buy additional slots (8 at a time) from the in-game store.

These custom character skins are purely cosmetic. They are basically a skin for your stats and your property. That means you can have a bunch of different skins, but when you swap skins, your stats and your clubs stay the same. All your saved skins are also available to use in both ONline and OFFline Multiplayer modes.

Character Stats
NOTE: Stats only improve when you play in  Single Player  and  ONline Multiplayer  modes.

There are 2 types of stats: Core Stats and Gear Stats.

Core Stats
As you play, your character improves his core skills (e.g. Power, Control, etc.). This improvement is separate from the improvement of your clubs. Character improvement is driven by the shots you hit: High-power shots improve your Power stat. Precise shots improve your Control stat.

Like your character, your clubs also improve as you use them. Each time you use a club, that club gets a little better. When you improve a club enough, the stats increase. For example, each time you hit a full power shot with a 1W club, you add a little more XP to that club's Power stat. When you fill the XP bar for Power, the stat increases by 1. This increase is then added to your Character's power stat when you use that club, giving you more power (i.e. distance) when you use that club.

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Club Stats
Each set of clubs has its own stats which modify your Core Stats. The club stats never change. For example, if your core Power Stat is 3 and you use a club set that includes a Power of 5, your total Power stat will be 8.

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Balls and Stats
With one exception, balls do not affect your stats. The Beginner Ball does lower your Power stat. All other balls affect things like spin or the height of their flight. You can see ball effects in the screen where you pick a ball.

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Unlocking Courses
Playing in tournaments awards you clothing, coins, and Experience Points (XP). Winning tournaments gets you more of these things. Each time you earn enough XP to go up in a rank, you get to play against a special golfer called a Versus (VS) Character. If you defeat 3 VS characters, you unlock a new course (or part of a course).

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