On the menu, I think you have to putt the ball into a hole to select "start" or "instructions", however it is possible to simply roll over the holes and have the ball go out of bounds and never return.
yeah you are supposed to putt the ball into a selection option, and you can go out of bounds, it’s unfortunately one of the many kinks of the game. You can just restart the game, and I will look at patching it.
