This was the first Nintendo game that the late
Satoru Iwata ever worked on. As a tribute to the late president of Nintendo, the game was embedded into every Nintendo Switch gaming console. Golf will play on July 11 only, the date of Iwata's passing, and console owners can't trick it by manually setting the date. If a Switch console has ever accessed the internet, it knows the real date. Players must then motion Iwata's signature bow from his Nintendo Direct appearances while holding the controllers. The console will say a voice clip of Iwata saying, "chokusetsu," a phrase he often started the Nintendo Direct streams with and translates to "directly."
