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I think you should also try Fuji Golf – one of the games included in the various Microsoft Entertainment Packs for Windows 3.x. It’s “not DOS” but still… Rather abstract. before “serious” golf game companies figured out how to port their games to Windows, there was this. It used the Windows vector drawing primitives to render a golf course, in a sort of minimalist approach to a simulator of the game.
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/fuji.html
Also: Gravislizard has deleted their twitter account, but years ago they had a good thread on “PC golf aesthetics” that may be a nice reference
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1099393668929118208.html