I had a go on this last night, an unranked online game, and I could only be Tiger Woods, there were arrows to choose a different golfer but they were shaded out so unusable, was this because it was unranked? There was no voting on a course, we played at Sun City.
I also have a big white bar at the bottom the screen all the time, I wonder if this is because it's a ntsc game on a pal machine. I think I'll get the PAL version to test this.
It's a good game. Online was great. You see the other player(s) you're playing against in real time as coloured arcs zipping about and if you hole out before the other players do you can spectate the rest of the hole using a camera that zooms about. 30 second to take a shot too which is cool. It also tells you how many strokes they've taken during a hole or whether they've birdied or whatever so you always know what the score is. I'm impressed.