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Go with Monkey Race in Super Monkey Ball 2 for the moment. It's excellent. :-D
Or if you're looking for a real racing game that's out now, get Wave Race: Blue Storm or Extreme G-3. Both are fairly good. Burnout maybe as well - it's worth a look, but Burnout 2: Point Of Impact is quite close, so maybe you could just wait for that instead.
I might claim one...
F-zero GC
Mario Kart GC
Burnout 2
Still, unless Mario Golf on the GameCube truly is amazing, nothing will ever get me to buy a purely golf game (e.g. not a game like Monkey Ball 2 with golf as a mini-game)
(preferably get both, but if I had to choose).
Wave Rave is stunning and solid long term, Burn Out is spectacular, but quite short term, better to rent it, but everyone should play it.
Not to say it isn't a good game. Just bored me.
I've never been a fan of water-based games.