Back 9 Bandit Competition

Changelog · current version 1.0.3

1.0.3 – 28 October 2026

New Exit game button at the top of every screen (title screen, clubhouse and on the course), which takes you back to the Rainbow Gaming homepage. It sits in its own strip above the title, so it never covers a control, and it is smaller on phones.
Leaving in the middle of a round asks you to confirm first, in a box on the page. Your round is saved, and you carry on from where you left off next time.
How to play is now a four-step quick start. The full rules are still there, folded into short topics you can open when you want them.
The shot shape buttons no longer squash the word Straight on narrow phone screens.

Added this changelog: open What’s new in the game, or use the What’s new link at the bottom of the page. The website also has a changelog page.

New fiction notice on the start screen and in the Copyright, privacy and credits section (and the privacy page): "Golfers, clubs, courses and competitions are fictional. Countries appear by name only. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any governing body or tour."
The version number now shows at the bottom of the game.
Kestrel Carr redesigned from scratch. The first layout was adapted from a real course; the new one is generated for the game and checked hole by hole against that course, with no hole matching. Still par 70 parkland (5,881 yards) with water, woods, a railway down the 10th and an orchard behind the 18th, and the same rating (67.6) so handicaps carry over. New hole names and stroke indexes.
A round in progress at Kestrel Carr when you update is scrapped, because the holes have changed. Saved careers, handicaps and money carry over.
Everything else is unchanged: the Continental Cup, golf trips to real countries, the career ladder and the six venue courses.

First web release.
A golf career from age 20 with no handicap: practice evenings, lessons, coaches, personal trainers, gear, balls and golf trips.
Handicaps worked out the way amateur golf does it, with course rating and slope.
Club competitions with side prizes, county and national amateur events, three professional tours, four majors and the Continental Cup.
Kestrel Carr home course and six venue courses: Saltmarsh Links, Harrowdene Heath, Fellside, Blackwater Abbey, Pinecrest National and Cypress Bay.
3D shot view with ball tracers, shot shapes (hook, draw, straight, fade, cut) and left- or right-handed golfers.
Optional player names file, read and kept in your browser only.
Fonts and 3D engine served from the site itself, with no third-party requests.