Actua Golf

Actua Golf features two fictional golf courses. The game includes various modes, such as four-ball, match, skins, and stroke. Options such as mulligans and gimmes are also available. The player can select the golfer's outfit and skin color.

Selectable weather conditions include dry, damp, and wet. Various camera angles are also featured. The game has several golf commentators, including Peter Alliss and Pat O'Brien.

Actua Golf was developed and published by Gremlin Interactive. In Europe, it was released for the PlayStation on October 18, 1996, followed by a Sega Saturn release sometime in that same month. In North America, the game was released for the same consoles under the title VR Golf '97. S.

version was published by VR Sports, a division of Interplay. A Nintendo 64 version of VR Golf '97 was scheduled for release in late 1997, but it was cancelled. The game was released on Microsoft Windows on Steam by Pixel Games UK in December 2022.

GamePro reviewer "Air Hendrix" considered the PlayStation version a close competitor to PGA Tour 97. Reviewing the Sega Saturn version, Air Hendrix wrote that the game "has what PGA '97 doesn't have: fast, clean action and spectacular course graphics." The latter review concluded that while the game "has plenty of room to improve, it ranks at the top of this year's Saturn leaderboards." IGN stated that golf games "have never been a success for console systems" but that VR Golf '97 "beats the odds and successfully combines PC features and console gameplay."

Two reviewers for Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) called the game addictive. A couple of reviewers for GameFan considered it among the best games available at that time, and two reviewers for Mean Machines Sega considered it the best golf game for the Saturn. Jeff Kitts of GameSpot, reviewing the PlayStation version, wrote that "there's nothing remotely 'VR,' as in virtual reality, about VR Golf '97." Kitts wrote, however, that the game "delivers just about everything, in terms of gameplay, one could ask for in a video game simulation."