Chip Shotz has a real Ronseal-type does-what-it-says-on-the-tin feel about it. And why not? For in the world of office-based desktop golf, simplicity wins over complexity any day, in our book.

Over the years, we at gadgetshop HQ have evaluated everything from complex PC-based golf applications to fiendishly complicated USB golfing dongles... and we can honestly say that when it comes to chipping an infeasibly small white plastic ball from your desk, across an impossibly wide office gulley and on to the adjacent desk, a touch of straightforward user-friendliness really enables on to focus on one's skills, such as they are.

Chip, then, is a finger-sized plastic golfer who inhabits a miniaturised golf course that you design and control. Although complete with green, bunker, water hazard and trees, it's a golf course with a difference. With the aid of some splendid magnetic devices, Chip can perform some truly amazing trick shots and just now and again score a hole in one.

All you have to do is judge the right amount of swing and power. But, as is all-too-common in these matters, that's easier said than done.

Then what better, after a round of office-based desktop distraction, than a pint of foaming ale with the club captain in the 19th hole? Any excuse.