You still choose a club, you still swing and you still have to be pretty accurate to succeed.
While this is no Links, the game itself plays very much like a serious golf game.
As you can see there is quite a bit to keep you going, assuming you like the game of golf. Also, there are modes which increase the difficulty of the game such as my one and only where you choose one club and use that and the putter for the whole round. There is the traditional golf modes such as strokeplay (lowest score wins), skins (win money) and others but there is also some games strongly skewed towards a group party environment. The crux of the game is of course golf but the developers have come up with numerous game modes to play for a party style atmosphere. Basically if you didn't like the original game, OG2 is not going to be up your alley at all. The original game was moderate and unfortunately for GlobalStar Software the same remains for the second game. Outlaw Golf 2 is pretty much more of the same with more courses more gametypes and online play. The thing was that when you take the bells and whistles off the non-traditional players and gametypes that it really was just another game of golf.
That was to create a mainstream golf game and get people not necessarily into golf, playing the game. Outlaw Golf moderately succeeded at what it wanted to do.