You can use the 3 click or 2 click gauge system if you want. You're given the option to pick...

The career mode and amount of courses and tournaments is good. But it's too easy to win all the tournaments...even easier with the click gauge.

Haven't played any of the new links games, though I did play 2001 MS links, and it was terrible...all you could do was play rounds of golf...no competitions or nothing. They must have fixed that with the new ones...surely!