I agree. This is a hopeless game. No what you try you can't the golfer to hit the ball. I'm sorry I spent the $6.95 on it. I would have thought 'bigpond' would have better quality control than this.

my computer is a Windows XP, Version 2002, 200GB
trying to start playing the game . Im trying almost every function imaginable including the mouse
it should have instructions of which keys u need to use to start playing especially how to hit the golf ball
i bought the game ,but now u just sit there almost frustrated.

I am on Vista, not XP but this shouldn't be a problem. I was unable to really try the game because I could not even start to get the golfer to hit the ball.
Some keyboard things I tried were Enter, Space and just about every other key on the keyboard after that. Thinking it might have to be a mouse I came unstuck as the mouse was just locked on to the direction for the ball and that is all it would do. Right clicking the mouse also did nothing.
It seems the risk of buying the game is not worth it to see if everything might suddenly work in the paid version so for me that is never going to happen. I don't mind if a trial version comes with a readme file explaining a list of limitations which will be fixed after payment but this game is doomed to fail due to a lack of interest from the author.