The best golf games on PS5
Are you looking for the best golf games available on PS5? You’re in the right place. Our list of our favourite golfing games on Sony’s console will let you hit balls to your heart’s content. Some of these games are serious golfing sims and others offer more of a fun twist on the sport, but one thing’s for sure: they all come highly recommended by us.
Our list of the best golf games on PS5 kicks off with some realistic golfing games, letting you play on real-world courses and take control of real-world golfing stars. Further down, you’ll find a selection of more arcadey takes on golf, along with some more, shall we say, left-field takes — What the Golf and Dangerous Golf, we’re looking at you.
The games we’ve picked out may not all quite represent a round on the fairway, then, but you can be sure you’re going to have a fantastic time with them.
This list was first published in January 2024 and has been periodically updated since.
1. EA Sports PGA Tour
EA Sports is one of two publishers currently holding the official PGA license, with 2K Games also putting out officially-branded PGA Tour games, too. With a greater history in golf games, though, we think EA Sports’ entry has the edge – after all, the company has been making PGA Tour games since the early nineties.
In EA Sports PGA Tour, you get to map out your career from its inception, playing on real golf courses created in beautiful, realistic detail thanks to EA’s Frostbite Engine. The game even makes use of PGA’s official ShotLink and TrackMan data, which allows for the most realistic outcomes with every golf swing. If realism is what you’re looking for, then, this is undoubtedly one of the best golf games on PS5.
2. PGA Tour 2K25
The second officially-licensed PGA Tour game comes from 2K Games. 2K’s had the license for a few years now, and so PGA Tour 2K25 isn’t the first game of the franchise. And developer HB Studios is no stranger to golfing games, having made The Golf Club before the official PGA license was put in its hands. The result is a realistic and feature-heavy golfing experience that offers up just about everything you could want in one of the best golf games on PS5.
You’ll find familiar golf stars here, including Tiger Woods of course, and a wealth of licensed courses – all of which look great. There’s a full career mode to make your way through, and you can even design your own courses if you feel like getting creative.
3. House of Golf 2
Here’s where things start getting a little less serious. House of Golf 2 swaps out a fully-fledged game of golf for mini-golf — but this might be one of the best mini-golf games we’ve ever played. It’s certainly one of the best-looking golf games there is: it’s stunning. As its name might suggest, House of Golf 2 takes place around a house, with living rooms and kitchens turned into epic golf courses.
You’ll need to navigate ramps, obstacles, jumps and more to reach the hole, and to make things a little trickier, there are sometimes multiple routes to take. It’s your job to figure out the best route to take, then. You can play by yourself, of course, but House of Golf 2 is much more fun when you’re playing against others. There are over 100 holes to complete, meaning there’s hours of fun to be had.
Read our full review of House of Golf 2
4. Golf With Your Friends
Golf With Your Friends, as its name suggests, is made to be played with friends. It features a series of courses, most of which resemble minigolf courses, laden with traps and tricky obstacles to navigate. Take it in turns, and see who can putt their ball first. It’s not just about putting a straightforward ball, though: Golf With Your Friends mixes things up by giving you explosive balls, fun themed courses (Worms, anyone?) and a whole lot more randomness.
While it may not be the most serious golfing game, Golf With Your Friends is a lot of fun and still employs satisfying physics that make hitting the ball a joy. You’ll need to consider your shots carefully if you want to beat your competitors. And of course you want to beat your competitors.
Read more about Golf With Your Friends
5. Golf Club Nostalgia
Originally called Golf Club Wasteland but rebranded sometime after launch, Golf Club Nostalgia is unlike any golf game you’ve played before. It’s set in the future, where the Earth is nothing but a ruined wasteland. Humans now live on other planets, and Earth has been turned into a playground for the rich. Part of that playground is a golf course.
Played from a 2D perspective, you’ll spend your time in Golf Club Nostalgia putting your ball around an array of apocalyptic courses, navigating obstacles like statues, dilapidated buildings, abandoned cars and more. It’s incredibly atmospheric, has a killer soundtrack and is seriously meditative to play. It’s not your standard golf game, then, but it is one of the best on PS5, and is well worth your time.
Read our review of Golf Club Nostalgia
6. Dangerous Golf
Released back in 2016, Dangerous Golf is a bit long in the tooth now. It doesn’t have a native PS5 version, but you can play the PS4 version via backwards compatibility. We still think it’s worth including in this list of best golf games on PS5, though, just because it’s so much fun. At this point, we’re willing to consider it a classic. It’s developed by Three Fields Entertainment, a company made up mainly of ex-Burnout developers. And so what you have here is essentially Burnout’s crash mode. But instead of crashing cars, you’re crashing into expensive stuff with a golf ball. It’s magnificent.
Each level of Dangerous Golf puts you in a different environment, but they’re all filled with expensive, breakable things. You’ll need to consider the speed and direction of your ball hit in order to maximise damage. The goal is, essentially, to create as much carnage as possible – and you’ll love every minute of it.
Read our review of Dangerous Golf
7. What the Golf
Despite including it in our list of best golf games on PS5, What the Golf isn’t a golf game. Not really. Sure, it’s a game about golf, and many of its zany levels are themed around the sport, but most of the time you won’t be doing anything as mundane as putting a ball into a hole. Sometimes you’ll be flinging an actual golf club down the green instead of the ball. Or maybe you will be the ball, and you’ll need to send yourself flying through the air.
Things only get more zany as you progress, too. What the Golf has a lot of levels, and many of them are based on other games. You’ll find some levels based on SUPERHOT, for example, along with Flappy Bird, Portal and Angry Birds. It’s a celebration of golf, video games and joy, basically — and we can’t recommend it highly enough. Just don’t expect a serious game of golf, and you’re golden.
