Links 2001 Championship Edition

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005N9AB
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 30, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,834 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #31 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Golf
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Links 2001 Championship Edition offers the definitive edition of this now-classic title, featuring a full version of the Links 2001 golf sim game, the powerful 3-D Arnold Palmer Course Designer, 13 championship courses, 14 professional and amateur players, and new course design tools for the 2001 series.

Tee off on four all-new championship golf courses for the Links 2001 title: Pennsylvania's Oakmont Country Club, Australia's Royal Melbourne, the Frankfurter Golf Club of Germany, and the Judge Course at Capitol Hill from the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama. Players can join up with friends at the Links Country Club for online competition, message boards, and more. Five original Links 2001 and four Links Expansion Pack professionally designed golf venues round out the collection.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Golf, Great Graphics, October 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Links 2001 Championship Edition (CD-ROM)

No doubt about it, Links is the best golf game out there. Physics are good, graphics are great. The course designer is good, could use some better documentation. The only gripe I have with the game is the fact that the wav. files from LS 2000 cannot be included. I really miss the British guy and his acerbic comments. That's the next thing Microsoft needs to do. I like being able to enjoy all the old LS courses that I have, though they don't play quite as well as the courses that came with the game. Other than the wav. file gripe, everything is great. A really fun game to play

42 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely unusable to my great frustration, March 10, 2002

By 

G. W. Sims (Lancaster, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Links 2001 Championship Edition (CD-ROM)

The day I ordered this upgrade I posted a review of Links LS that was sincere and enthusiastic. Sadly, I have to revise that review after installing this version. It will not work, and it has made the earlier version unworkable as well. I have no working version of Microsoft Links LS 2001 suddenly.

And I have a very normal system configuration. Powerful, but normal. Everything inside is Intel and the operating system is Microsoft as well as most of the software.

Ninety percent of what is written about Microsoft is egregious slander. Another nine percent is accurate, but merely sour grapes from less talented people. This is one of those cases in the last one percent. Some paranoid management decision has ruined a great product.

Without notice, copy protection of the most annoying old-fashioned variety has been added -- and does not work. Moreover, the installation process retroactively applies the tactic to earlier versions. Install this version and you're rolling the dice on whether you'll have any working version at all.

It demands the program disk when you launch. Workable, if insulting, except it promptly crashes while attempting to "validate the media." And so does the old version after you've attempted to install this "upgrade."

After three hours last night and another four today, this is what I've learned:

a. The new version installs a "Safedisk feature" (a third-party copy protection scheme) that is not compatible with some CD drives. I have two, from two different manufacturers, and it is compatible with neither.

b. The new version cannot be run if Safedisk is not compatible with your CD drive. The Microsoft Knowledge Base uses the coy phrase: "No known solution." So I uninstalled the new version.

c. Reinstalling the old version I learned that it now applies the same -- inoperable -- "feature." It wants the program disk in the drive and then crashes when you do so. (Mind you, both of these are fully paid versions. I don't steal anything, let alone anything as trivial as software.)

d. After various arcane magic known to us system geeks, I have done the obvious and many things not so obvious without success. I have restored the system registry to its pre-install condition; manually removed the files a well-behaved program installs that might be left behind by the "un-install" function; and conducted other tests and experiments not worth detailing. Somewhere inside Microsoft a paranoid programmer has intentionally gone around all the programming guidelines for Windows to "hide" this new feature where it will not be removed by normal procedures.

Buy this program and you run a realistic chance of disabling earlier versions as well as wasting the money you spend on this one.

I haven't decided how much I care about this. ... Perhaps I'll explore what was done enough to get my old version running and maybe I won't. Certainly I won't install a third CD drive or take any of the Draconian measures suggested in the Microsoft Knowledge Base in order to run a program with minor fixes from the previous version.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars why..why..why...., December 6, 2001

By 

onepuka "onepuka1" (Kailua, HI USA) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Links 2001 Championship Edition (CD-ROM)

I have purchased Links and its courses since the inception. Now to get the four new courses, I must buy the whole package again.
Why....I ask, I already have EVERYTHING else, all I want is the new courses. The program is truly wonderful, the marketing is another story......(...)