If you're looking to get all the courses, just get the first game and Golden Tee Fore Complete. Complete has everything except two 9 hole courses from the first game (Royal Bannockburn and Rolling Acres). Those are the only 2 games I test on the Modder but I assume they all work fine.
Another tip, make sure you press T to go into test mode after it boots up to adjust the sound. It defaults at basically 0. I also cleared out all the records and leaderboards since some of the computer scores are almost impossible to beat.