The main player wears a white shirt and shoes with blue pants and uses a white ball, while the second player wears a red shirt and shoes with black pants and uses a red ball.
The selects either single stroke play or the two-player selections of doubles stroke play or match play. The player is then placed at the tee of the first of eighteen holes.
In 1991, Nintendo identified the golfer as Mario in a gameplay guide book.[3] Nintendo's Wii game Captain Rainbow identifies the golfer as Ossan,[citation needed] which happens to be one of the generic hero names during the development of Donkey Kong.[4] The Game Boy conversion would feature Mario on the Western cover art, but not the Japanese version