PangYa/Courses

All courses in PangYa are rated in difficulty on a scale of one to five stars (three in the first three seasons). To balance out the increased difficulty of the tougher courses, the game awards the player with more Pang for scoring par or better.

Blue Lagoon [★]
This simple, tropical-themed course is designed for beginners. The course is mostly surrounded by water and sand, but wide fairways, easy pin placements and a low amount of obstacles make it fairly easy for novices to play. Some risky shortcuts are available for the more experienced players to take.

Blue Water [★★★]
Blue Water follows the same course as Blue Lagoon, except with different pin placements and more obstacles. For example, Hole 6 of Blue Lagoon is a straight Par 3 over a body of water; however, in Blue Water, that same body of water is home to a massive rock formation, making a straight shot all but impossible.

Sepia Wind [★★★]
Sepia Wind is an autumn-themed course dotted with windmills and trees. Power is required as some drives require length to clear imposing forests and sand traps. Clever players can use the many cart paths to add distance to their drives.

White Wiz [★★★]
White Wiz is a Christmas-themed course, covered in ice and snow. The snowy rough is more punishing than on other courses, meaning more power is needed if you intend on going off the fairway. White Wiz introduces a unique terrain type: ice. Unlike bunkers or rough, ice does not impose a penalty on distance while taking a shot. It does, however, reduce the player's control over the shot. Bouncing the ball off of ice has a similar but more pronounced effect as bouncing off a cart path, enabling high Overdrive possibilities. Although the course is festively themed, the course is always available to play on at any time of the year. White Wiz has an event in which a Santa Claus-like figure will appear over the course, upon completion of the hole each player will receive a gift.

Wind Hill [★★★★★]
As Blue Lagoon is to Blue Water, Sepia Wind is to Wind Hill. This course is nearly the same as its easier counterpart, though there are certain changes that cause this course to be the bane of most veteran players. Wind Hill adds more windmills and obstructive trees, and other objects have been moved slightly so that a shot that would normally work on Sepia Wind may not work on Wind Hill. The rough is extremely thick, even worse than the snowy rough of White Wiz. The greens are physically harder, making most approach shots bounce higher and subsequently longer. Finally, as a unique feature to the course, wind speed and direction are not consistent during a hole, known as "Wind Tunnels" by players of Albatross18. Even while the ball is in flight, if the ball enters an area with different wind, the new wind will affect the ball. These modifications make Wind Hill a vastly different experience than that of Sepia Wind.

Blue Moon [★★★]
Blue Moon is another variation of Blue Lagoon, taking place at night rather than day. There are two major differences between Blue Lagoon and Blue Moon, the first one being that the tee and green switch places, and the second being that the holes are played in a different order than Blue Lagoon and Blue Water. Players will also encounter new obstacles and situations that will require planning to safely traverse the course.

Wiz Wiz [★★★★]
Wiz Wiz is set-up high in the mountains. Players will find themselves forced to shoot between cliffs and through windmills much larger than the ones found on Wind Hill. The first few holes are not too taxing, but the later holes can be brutal for people who are unable to consistently perform special shots. It should also be noted that hole 9 on Wiz Wiz provides an obvious use for the underused "Cobra" shot in the game. The back 9 of Wiz Wiz makes it deserving of its three-star ranking. Other than its difficulty, Wiz Wiz has no real unique features to further test the player.

West Wiz [★]
Don't be fooled by how similar it looks to Wiz Wiz, West Wiz is far easier for the rookie player to play. Most tee shots are onto downward facing slopes, enabling the ball to roll overdrive of 50+ yards on a high number of the holes. Some of the treacherous chasms still remain from Wiz Wiz, however in all cases they are optional and provide more distance/overdrive if successfully crossed. Like Wiz Wiz, West Wiz possesses no real unique features.

Silvia Cannon [★★★★]
Silvia Cannon is arguably the hardest course in the game (even though it has four stars instead of five), with nasty distances for the player to traverse, and low par requirements. However, the course has several unique features that can either help or hinder the player. The first of these features is that gigantic cannons are located on a majority of the holes. These cannons charge up energy, then fire at some as-yet-unknown target (it is explained on the PangYa website that the cannon is "fired ceremoniously to challenge players"), resulting in the wind direction changing to that of the cannon, along with the wind speed being set to a high value determined by the hole. The second feature is the large fans embedded into the water near a landmass or ship. The fans have a large updraft above them blowing the ball upwards (possibly with the effect of making the ball behave as if its spin had been set to maximum backspin while the ball is traveling above it). If the ball bounces off the fan, it will be launched high into the air, but the direction that the ball travels depends on how the ball lands on the fan, making bouncing off of a fan risky business. Lastly, the course has helicopters stationed along some of the holes. The blades of these act like the embedded fan, except blowing the ball downward instead (possibly as if the ball will act as if it had maximum topspin instead).

Shining Sand [★★]
Shining Sand is a desert-themed golf course. The course has special "bouncers" on some holes which launch the ball in a certain direction. Proper use of these can result in a low score, though the player needs to remember that they are one-way aids, and shooting the ball into the wrong way can result in a nasty surprise.

Available only in the European, Korean, Taiwanese, Thai, Japanese and SEA version of PangYa.

Ice Cannon [★★]
Ice Cannon is a slightly easier version of Silvia Cannon that takes place on ice-covered terrain. Due to the ice, balls will bounce higher and roll farther than normal throughout most of the course. Ice cannon has very large overdrive areas, which can result in 300+ pang.

Pink Wind [★]
Pink Wind is a beautiful spring course released in Korea for a special event. Overall the course is just like Ice Cannon and Shining Sand, brightly colored and moderately easy to play. The putting greens are overall flat and feel no harder than on Sepia Wind. There are not many overdrive chances.

Ice Spa [★]
Ice Spa is similar to Ice cannon in that it offers great opportunities for overdrive. This course has many easy eagle shots and it can be noted that on hole 9 of this course an easy albatross can be made by spiking the ball over the large ice obstacle and landing it on the green. There are some new obstacles that cannot be overcome without a great deal of power. There are more water hazards than there were in Ice Cannon but overall the shots are easier and more straight forward.

Deep Inferno [★★★★★]
The course designed for Kaz's entry into the game. This is quite possibly the second hardest course in the game, only second to Silvia cannon. The putts in this game are, however, arguably the hardest. The course itself resembles a barren wasteland, home to strange creatures chained to rocks, a dragon in the sky, and small black birds that scurry around the blackened earth. There are large lava pits for your ball to fall into if you do not have the power to make the shots. Often it is hard to stay on the fairway in this course, although it looks straight forward and the games natural estimates for how far your ball with go are rarely correct. This requires a lot of power shots and accuracy. In return the course offers a lot of pang for the holes you make under par.

Eastern Valley [★★]
Eastern Valley is a very recent update for a fairly straight forward map. The most notable difficult aspect of the course is that many of the fairways are very short. It offers an average amount of pang but also has several easy eagle opportunities.

Lost Seaway [★]
Lost Seaway has taken the cup from Ice Spa from the easiest pang collecting course in the game. This course is very straight forward except for the almost excessive amount of sand pits. However, the main feature of the course is it uses the same "bouncers" we saw on Shining Sand, except this time they become very easy to use on almost every hole, resulting in much lower scores being very easy to get, and lots and lots of overdrive.