About
The Golf Club 2 is a golf simulation by Nova Scotia studio HB Studios, the sequel to the 2014 surprise hit The Golf Club. Built in Unity, it pairs a tempo-based swing system with a powerful procedural course designer that let players build and share thousands of community courses. Its career mode centered on player-run online 'Societies' that hosted tournaments. The game was delisted from Steam on July 1 2020, and its online servers were shut down on February 28 2025, ending course sharing and multiplayer while leaving offline rounds and the course designer playable.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- HB_Golf.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Silver runs with minor issues
⚙ Setup notes
DRM: Delisted Steam game (appid 554510, removed from sale July 1 2020). Unity title from HB Studios; the game exe is HB_Golf.exe in the install root.
Proton: ProtonDB tier is Silver with a Deck status of Playable — it installs and runs on Proton. GE-Proton is the safest pick; stock proton_experimental and older official builds (5.0-8 / 4.11) have also worked for users.
Display: Some reports note slow load/start and uneven framerate on the menus, so cap to 40fps via the Deck performance overlay if it stutters.
Controller: Gamepad input works, but not cleanly out of the box — the default mapping is awkward (swing defaults to the right pad / wrong stick) and players report misaligned bindings or missing actions like shot-shaper and practice swing. Open the in-game controller settings and switch the swing to the left stick; if bindings are wrong, toggle Steam Input (or set the controller up once in Big Picture) for that title.
Online: Online play is dead (servers shut down Feb 28 2025) — keep to the offline single-player / course-designer modes.
Install: deckport only configures the prefix; it never bundles or links the game files.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy: Delisted from Steam (appid 554510) on July 1 2020 — not for sale. deckport links nothing.
Proton: ProtonDB Silver / Deck Playable — runs under Proton (GE-Proton recommended).
Controller: Gamepad is supported but needs in-game setup — the default scheme is awkward and some Deck users hit misaligned bindings / missing actions. In the in-game controller settings switch the swing to the left stick, and toggle Steam Input for the title if bindings come up wrong. Not a clean out-of-the-box remap.
Online: ONLINE IS DEAD — servers shut down Feb 28 2025, so online tours, the in-game store and progression rewards no longer work; offline rounds and the course designer still play.
Display: Some users report slow loading and occasional menu stutter — cap framerate via the Deck overlay if needed.
Binary: HB_Golf.exe should be confirmed against your own install.
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.