I came for the sports genre (cute girls playing golf, what could go wrong), and left by a watered-down gangster story with spectacular fight scenes played out as golf matches, serious drama, tangible and likeable characters, great visuals and music.
I was surprised and man, I like these kind of surprises! (If you are really looking for the accurate presentation of the sport and some serious competition and struggle going on between the players, then this show is not what you are looking for. It does entertain, but in a different way.)
Our MC is Eve, a self-taught, orphan, golf prodigy who lives with her family of girls in a maffia run metropolis with corrupt officals and smaller and bigger crime lords who are into golfing to the level that they organize "golf-showdowns" to decide on matters of life and death. And one day, under very unlikely circumstainces, she just meets Aoi who is a professional U15 golf superstar and they just get attracted to each other. There are some yuri vibes here, I just need to finish Season 1 to tell how much... and Season 2 is already airing! (It's a good girl-bad girl setup we get here. There is a great turn in the story in the middle of Season 1, but the first half makes a good foundation for the rest to better understand who Eve is and where she is coming from. She becomes the thug among a bunch of schoolgirls, which in itself, is a good source of humor.)
So why does it work? (At least for me...) Because, this show is the shining example of what good writing is. It doesn't matter if golf is portrayed unrealistically just as a substitute for fighting scenes, or if it is just a lightweight maffia story, or a highschoolers-playing-golf story, at the end it still interesting, fun, well paced, with likeable characters who you can root for, with well measured doses of drama, romance, saddness, thrill and action. (Fan service, stupid jokes, idiotic characters, awkward dialogs, filler episodes, you can forget about those... It's a good show, doesn't take on too much, not too complex, but it delivers its promise.)
UPDATE: Season 2... nope, nothing to update, it's still a masterpiece, the script won't get you bored even for a single episode.
