Introduction

I thought I'd make a page dedicated to how I performed in the competitive scene of Mario Golf: World Tour for the first few months after its release. This is a game I played way too much, so I thought it made sense to give it its own page, similar to what I've made for F-ZERO X and GX.

I was active with competitive play from day 1 pretty much, so I got to see how the competitive scene of this game was like for the first few months. This is something that hasn't really been archived very well anywhere, so this page should give a pretty good idea about how the competition was like. Top 10 leaderboards for a majority of tournaments has also been included in the tournament section, which is something that cannot be found elsewhere on the Internet.

The first few months in particular were the best months this game had, because there were such great amount of activity for every tournament. The amount of people that entered worldwide tournaments ranged from 8000 - 28000, making the competition strong and exciting.

Tournament Rules

-You have the option to update your score as many times as you want until the tournament period is over. Almost every tournament lasts for exactly two weeks.

-The rank provided to tied scores is handled by placing the person who got the score first, highest.

-The following elements are prefixed in tournament play:
  Wind direction and intensity
  Rain occurrence
  Pin location

Although the weather conditions are set, it is not possible to make setups that will get Hole-In-Ones and similar every time. The reason for this is because there's a hidden RNG which determines the additional +/- % distance of a shot. Ball lie RNG is also something which has additional impact. Due to these mechanics, there are probably a few hundreds, if not thousands of slightly different outcomes a single shot can have.

- TOURNAMENT CATEGORIES -

- Regional Tournament -

-Entry restricted to the region of your game.
(NTSC-J, NTSC-U, or PAL)
*Australia uses PAL region
*South Korea uses NTSC-J region

-Restricted to only using the Mii as a playable character.

-Regionals have a variety of tournament settings, such as:
  Stroke Play
  Points Play
  Near-Pin
  Speed Golf
  One-On, One-Putt
  Limited Callaway Tournaments
  Handicap Tournaments

- World Tour -

-Worldwide; Available for everyone.
-Restricted to only using the Mii as a playable character.
-Tournaments only takes place in Castle Club courses
-Stroke Play is the only tournament setting.

- Major Tour -

Mostly shares the same restrictions as the World Tour category, with a few additional changes.

-Required to have ranked in the top 60% in either a Regional or World Tour.
-Uses "Tournament Tees" that are placed further back than "Back Tees".
-Has unique major tournament alternations of the courses, which can only be played during these Majors.

These unique course alternations cannot be accessed outside of these tournaments, making them considerably harder to get used to.

- Mario Open -

-Worldwide; Available for everyone.
-Most characters in the game are available. (DLC characters aren't available outside of DLC tournaments).
-Tournaments only takes place in the Mario World courses
-Tournaments are most commonly 9-hole rounds, rather than 18-hole rounds, (which is the standard for tournaments outside of Mario Open).

-Mario Open has a variety of tournament settings, such as:
  Coin Rush
  Item restricted tournaments
  Character restricted tournaments
  DLC tournaments