Semi-rough is a shallow type of rough that looks very similar to the fairway. There are five different types of roughs seen on the courses each one has a different effect on the player's landing and shot along with darker coloring as the effects of the rough intensifies: The rough is the area of the courses where the grass is thicker than the fairway. This term also appears in NES Open Tournament Golf should the player hit the ball off the box where the course is located, Toad will wave his flag and call an OB. Should the ball stop exactly half a second later, the announcer will keep on saying "Fore!" continuously for 2 seconds while "Oh, too bad!" is said just once). (If the ball stops less than half a second after the shot, "Fore!" is not called. The announcer (as well as the other players, if played in Multiplayer Mode) calls out "Fore!" half a second after the ball is hit if it is determined that it will go out of the course. This is functionally identical to a standard OB. If the player shoots their ball beyond the boundaries not merely of the hole but the entire "island" and into the void, the text message "out of course" is displayed on-screen instead of Toad waving his flag. In Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64, holes are rendered as isolated "islands" floating in a void, similar to the levels of Super Mario 64. When an out of bounds shot happens, the announcer says "Oh, too bad!" except in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Mario Golf: Advance Tour, and Mario Golf: Super Rush, where the Toad commentary (if enabled) will say "That's OB for !" In the former, nothing is said in the case, while in the latter, the announcer says either "Out of bounds!" or "Too bad!" instead (where Blue Toad holds up an OB sign). In NES Open Tournament Golf and Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64, Toad is the one to alert the player of an out of bounds shot, while in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, a Koopa Paratroopa is the one to alert the player. The player must then hit the ball from the same place that they hit the out of bounds shot. The penalty for going out of bounds is one stroke, added on to the player's current score for the hole. Some sort of signal usually appears when the player hits out of bounds. When the player hits the ball where it lands outside of the boundaries, falls off the edge, lands in lava, in a Chain Chomp pit, or elsewhere that is not in the main course, it is registered as out of bounds. When a player hits a shot out of bounds (abbreviated as O.B.), it means that their golf ball landed outside the boundaries of the golf course. Toad alerting that the ball is out of bounds in the intro of Mario Golf (N64). It affects the ball's lie, though not as much as waste areas or rock. Parts of the course Bare ground īare ground appears in every Mario Golf game after Mario Golf on the Nintendo 64.