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These are screen shots from the links tour. If anyone viewing this post can get their golf game to add a 2nd golfer to a Links tour round please let me know
Sometimes i would have the ability to shoot both player's rounds(if i wished) and it would count one, other times it would just add the 2nd players strokes to the hole so breaking 110 would take -18 by both on a 72 par course. In reality it has been either 2 stroke or 6 stroke penalties in the tourneys the anomaly reared its head (about 60%) since i purchased this computer in April.. as i leave and get disqualified when 2 players show up at the tee at hole one as shown above.
The gaming computer didn't have a DVD/CD drive so i installed the download version at 1st. A month later after having to play 2 rounds to get credit for one on three different occasions and noticing my scores were always a few strokes off since i got very bored, i sent a message to Mark asking why it was added to the online version.
Of course he thought i was nuts saying it was not possible until i started delivering screen shots. So i ordered a usb DVD/CD player and installed the 20 year discs. Same result just as Mark predicted to me.
So coming into August i turn my attention to the computer manufacturer. HP
I got into a session with one of their support specialist's where he had control of my pc and i directed him to the screenshots and pointed out the 2 duffers at the tee on hole one. I then had him open the golf game, go to the links tour and had him try to add a 2nd duffer to the tee.
He said the game would not allow it and i said...Exactly sir! The problem is the cr ap that HP added to the hard drive is messing with the only reason i purchased this computer. I was transferred to the compatibility support team...
It's TRASHIN time 
"Had this been brought to us in the 1st 30 days of use this would be a free service, but, since it wasn't we can fix this for $59 down and $29 a month or a $99 charge for a one issue fix." was the compatibility support team's response.
So HP gives a one year warranty on their computer's hardware, but they give you 1 month to address the damage their spyware does to user added programs. BUYER BEWARE OF HP!
The audacity of HP wanting to charge for a problem they created floored me to the point i thought... ef them... i know the cure!
This week i played the PLSA, the CLSC, the flight, the handicap, and a 2 round arcade event without issue. So i went from being unable to shoot 8 rounds on the links tour without a 2nd golfer showing up uninvited to shooting 18 rounds straight without issue.
The cure?
Ironically... Friday 9/16/22 on links2k3's 20th birthday... i brought my game back to life when i removed the 1TB SSD hard drive HP installed and installed my own. I then booted from a usb bootdisk and installed my own copy of windows 11 pro and reinstalled the golf game.
Too bad i had to spend $200 bucks on a "new" computer, but...Now i have the computer they sold me without the pork they added.