Best Badge

A Best Badge is a badge rewarded in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and helps to unlock new courses and characters in Mario Golf: Advance Tour. They are color-coded by the score: The best badges can be used to unlock Waluigi, Wario and Bowser in Mario Golf: Advance Tour. This can be done using the GCN-GBA Link Cable. It is also used to unlock Boo in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour.
 * Birdie Badge – Blue
 * Eagle Badge – Green
 * Hole-in-One Badge – Yellow
 * Albatross Badge – Red

The total is 216 badges with all tournaments in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, 360 badges with all tournaments in Mario Golf: Advance Tour. (Each 108 with normal and star tournament in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, 90 with normal and star tournament for the Singles and Doubles in Mario Golf: Advance Tour.)

Best Badges reappear in Mario Golf: World Tour, but with different color schemes. Birdie Badges are silver, while Eagle and Albatross Badges are gold.