Classic Golf Solitaire vs New Golf Solitaire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Classic Golf Solitaire
A single-player card game where players move cards from tableau piles to a discard pile. The goal is to match cards by rank, either one higher or one lower than the top discard card. The game offers a classic solitaire experience with simple mechanics.
- Single-player card game
- Match cards by rank
- Higher or lower card selection
- Discard pile mechanic
- Stock pile for new cards
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Golf Solitaire is a single player card game. Move all cards in the tableau piles to the upturned discard pile at the bottom. Click to move a card of an immediate higher or lower ranking than the top card on the discard pile regardless of their suits.You may also click the downturned stock pile at the bottom for a new card.
New Golf Solitaire
A card game where you click cards one above or below the home card to clear the table. It sounds simple but requires strategy to achieve high scores and climb the leaderboards.
- Simple card matching gameplay
- Requires planning and strategy
- Clear the table before deck runs out
- Compete on the scoreboard
- Deceptively simple
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A deceptively simple golf game. It is possibly the most addictive solitaire of all! Just click the cards that are one above or below the home card. Try to clear the table before the deck runs out! It sounds simple, but this game requires careful planning & strategy to get the best runs and claim a spot on the scoreboard!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: New Golf Solitaire at 4.3 against Classic Golf Solitaire's 2.3. New Golf Solitaire also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and ratings volume (61 vs 3). Classic Golf Solitaire's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
New Golf Solitaire holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: New Golf Solitaire has 61 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Classic Golf Solitaire's written reviews are positive against 80% of New Golf Solitaire's.
Classic Golf Solitaire ships an update every 5 months, New Golf Solitaire every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Classic Golf Solitaire | New Golf Solitaire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.3 (61 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 61 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin White | 少箐 岑 |
Customer experience
Classic Golf Solitaire
New Golf Solitaire
In-app purchases
Classic Golf Solitaire
No in-app purchases
New Golf Solitaire
No in-app purchases
Questions
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