Play the game. Then play it for real.

Bold Birdies is a golf game and a golf simulator in one. Grab a controller and play it as a game, or hook up your launch monitor and play the same courses as a full simulator, with the same detail and the same shot data.

Join the Alpha See It in the Game

Now in alpha on Windows PC

Launch monitors coming to Sim Mode

How Sim Mode works
  • Garmin
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  • Bushnell
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  • ProTee

Straight from the game

Real screenshots on Epic settings, with nothing painted over: both courses from the fairways and the deep rough, the cart, and a tee shot with the ball flight window and the shot numbers up.

Twenty seconds in the game: a flyover, a drive from address, the cart, a 6-iron over the water and a putt.
  • Game view after a 6-iron tee shot over a pond. The ball flight window at the bottom right shows the ball dropping onto the green beside a bunker, and the shot readout across the bottom shows carry 156, total 158, ball speed 107 mph, launch 18.4 degrees, spin 6603 rpm, apex 24 and offline left 7.
    A 6-iron over the pond on Kame Hollow 16. Your own view stays on the main screen, the ball flight window follows the ball onto the green, and the numbers come up across the bottom.
  • Standing in the long meadow grass on a slope above the pond on Kame Hollow 16, pink heather in the foreground and the fairway beyond.
    Kame Hollow Links, hole 16, from the meadow above the pond. Every blade out here is in play.
  • From the tee box between tall trees, a cart path curves left toward a green at the end of a tree-lined par 3.
    Split Rock Golf Course, hole 2. A par 3 through the trees.
  • Deep rough with clumps of pink heather rolling down toward the water and the fairway on Kame Hollow 2, Lochside.
    Kame Hollow Links, hole 2, Lochside. Heather and fescue on the way down to the loch.
  • Driving a golf cart along the cart path off the first tee at Split Rock, seen from the driver's seat, with the cart's GPS screen hanging from the roof showing hole 1, par 4, 327 yards to the pin and the hole map.
    Take the cart. It keeps to the paths, and the GPS hung from the roof counts down the yards to the front, pin and back as you drive Split Rock 1.
  • Rolling deep rough with scattered shrubs and heather beside the fairway on Kame Hollow 13, a large tree on the hill behind.
    Kame Hollow Links, hole 13, The Burn, from the deep rough on the right.
  • A mown approach rising to a green with a red flag in front of a wall of tall trees.
    Split Rock Golf Course, hole 6, the hardest hole on the card, from the fairway.

One game, two ways to play

Play Bold Birdies as a game on the couch, or as a simulator in your hitting bay. Same courses, same ball, same numbers. The difference is how you swing and how you get around.

Game Mode

Play it with a controller

  • Swing with the right stick. Length sets power, tempo sets consistency, and drift sets path and face.
  • Walk the course or drive the golf cart from shot to shot.
  • Find your ball, read the lie, pick the club and step into address.
  • Assist levels from Learning to Pro, so it is easy to pick up and hard to master.
Sim Mode

Play it with your launch monitor

  • Swing your own clubs. Your launch monitor reads the ball and the same physics flies it on screen.
  • You are taken to each tee and straight to your ball for every shot. No walking, no cart.
  • The screen shows your view over the ball at address, so you line up the way you would outside.
  • Club data from your launch monitor, like club speed, smash, path and face, shown with the ball data when your monitor measures it.

The same in both

  • The same courses

    Every hole, green and tree, built from real map and lidar data or designed by us.

  • The same ball

    One flight and roll model for both, with lies, wind, firm and soft ground and real green speeds.

  • The same numbers

    After every swing: carry, total, ball speed, launch, spin, apex and offline, the way a simulator shows them.

Launch monitor support is rolling out during the alpha, one model at a time. Tell us which one you own when you sign up and we will put it on the list.

Real golf, from behind your own eyes

Full 18-hole rounds on real public courses rebuilt from real data, and on courses we design ourselves.

  • You are the golfer

    First person at eye height, no avatar. Look down at address and you see the ball, the club and your feet. After impact your head turns to follow the flight.

  • Set up like a player

    Aim your stance, open or close your lead foot and play the ball forward or back. Shape draws and fades on purpose, the way you would on the course.

  • Read it yourself

    No landing marker and no power bar. Fly over the hole from the tee, turn your head to the target to check you are square, get your number from the rangefinder or the cart GPS, then commit.

Two courses to start

One real public course in Ohio, rebuilt from public map and lidar data. One virtual links course we designed ourselves, laid on real Ohio ground. Every course gets a hole-by-hole guide here.

Illustrated map of Kame Hollow Links
Virtual course

Kame Hollow Links

Virtual course on real Ohio terrain

Par
71
Yards
6,814
Holes
18

All courses

Join the alpha

Bold Birdies is in alpha on Windows PC. Sign up and we will send you an invite as we open spots, starting with controller players and adding launch monitors as each one is supported.

  • Kame Hollow Links and Split Rock Golf Course, all 36 holes
  • Game Mode with an Xbox controller
  • Sim Mode as your launch monitor comes online
  • A direct line to us. Alpha feedback shapes the game.
How do you want to play?

Windows PC. We only email you about Bold Birdies, and you can opt out any time.