I get the sense that it's not meant to be taken seriously as a golfing game (the par scores for each level are a massive hint towards this), and is more of a analogy on the tedium of being at the office, how you can get stuck doing the same thing over and over and constantly being knocked back on any attempt you make at climbing the corporate ladder.

But then the game also has seemingly random game-y power ups, and also tracks your score and time taken. It wants to be both a fun little golf game and a parable about the pointlessness of office life but doesn't really succeed at either thanks to its limited ambition with each course (it's just more bits of furniture in the way) and imprecise swing controls. It's also quite disappointing that the crank doesn't really get much of an outing here, relegated to an alternate method of aiming or shifting the camera (both of which are already mapped to the d-pad)

The metaphor for being knocked back down might get lost but I wonder it this could have been more successful at achieving both elements of what it sets out to be if it were a top down mini-golf style game. But I can't review it for what it isn't, only what it is, and Executive Golf DX is a time-waster in every sense of the word.