Super Rush update adds new course and Toadette

Nintendo announced that Mario Golf: Super Rush receives a free surprise update that adds Toadette, a new golf course located in New Donk City, and more. The update will be released later today. It might even be out by the time you read this.

Nintendo has revealed details of the Mario Golf: Super Rush updated on Twitter earlier today. The patch adds a new golf course based on New Donk City, which was first seen in Super Mario Odyessy. He also brings the first DLC golfer, Toadette, to the game. In a short gameplay clip released by Nintendo, Toadette uses his Super Pickaxe tool from Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.

With this update, Nintendo adds ranked matches, a game mode that will challenge players to improve their ranking in different modes each month while competing against similarly ranked players online.

Nintendo vaguely promises that this update will add “improved motion controls”. I don’t know what that means, but there you go.

In the announcement tweet, Nintendo teased that more free additions for Super rush are on their way and will be released later this year.

This is the first major content update for Mario Golf: Super Rush since the game was released in June on Nintendo Switch. In our review of the game, Therese McPherson said it was a lot of fun, even for someone who admittedly isn’t a huge golf fan.

Mario Golf’s The latest patch is another sign that Nintendo is improving in adopting the post-launch support model made famous by other publishers like Ubisoft and Rockstar Games. Nintendo just released a ton of free content for New Pokémon Snap earlier this week that added new Pokémon and areas to explore. Before that, games like Mario tennis aces and Animal Crossing New Horizons received free updates months and months after release.