Product Description

Whether you're a seasoned veteran or hitting the links for the first time, now everybody swings on an even playing field, in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. Your career begins under the watchful eye of Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' real-life coach, who takes you under his wing, helps you tune your clubs, and provides training drills to help improve your game. With experience under your belt and confidence as your ally, take aim at family, friends, and rivals in fun and challenging game modes, including the new Golf Party mini-game mode. With improved swing mechanics, an all-new controller system, and tutelage from one of the game's best coaches, play your way to the top of the leader board with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. An all-new controller system allows golfers of all skill levels to play on an even playing field, removing the guesswork as the game shows you exactly where your ball will travel before every shot.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1063 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 15463
• Released on: 2008-08-26
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Dimensions: .58" h x 5.26" w x 6.71" l, .30 pounds

Features

• Battle your friends in 15 fun and challenging mini-games that keep the competition fierce, long after you have finished your round
• Tiger Woods' real life coach Hank Haney will guide you through your career right from the start and help you improve your confidence
• Get the most out of every club with the Club Tuner, an all-new swing-control feature that allows you to calibrate your clubs to fit your personal tendencies and preferences
• Coach Haney will be constantly watching your performance and assessing areas for improvement
• Ball trail visuals indicate your competitors' shots, allowing you to swing whenever you're ready

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Tee off with Tiger for the '09 season

The pros have their own coaches, now you do too in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or hitting the links for the first time, Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' real-life coach, takes you under his wing, assesses your skills, and provides feedback after every round. With experience under your belt and confidence as your ally, take on all-new challenges in EA SPORTS GamerNet or new Online Simultaneous Play, where four live golfers can play a round in no time. With the new Club Tuner, an all-new Dynamic Skills feature, and tutelage from one of the game's best coaches, play your way to the top of the leaderboards with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09.

Key Features All-New Performance Coach-Tiger Woods' real-life coach, Hank Haney, guides you through your career by assessing your performance and providing tips and drills to increase your skills. Maximize Your Swing-Get the most out of every club with the Club Tuner, an all-new swing-control feature that allows you to calibrate your clubs to fit your personal tendencies and preferences. Stay Atop Your Game-Adding Skill Points to your abilities is only half the battle as all-new Dynamic Skills shift after every round, emphasizing consistency as much as improvement. Enhanced EA SPORTS GamerNet-All-new Instant Challenges-long drives, approach shots, and putting contests-appear throughout your round, adding excitement to the competition. All-New Online Simultaneous Play-Compete in a live four person round in the time it takes to play a single-player round. Ball trail visuals indicate your competitors' shots, allowing you to swing whenever you're ready. New Courses and Golfers-Test your skills on new courses, including Gary Player Country Club in South Africa, Wentworth Country Club in England, and more, while international stars Se Ri Pak, Darren Clarke, and others join the competition.

Instant Gamernet challenges View larger image Visualize the hole...not the hazard View larger image Simultaneous multiplayer helps speed up the round View larger image

Customer Reviews

Impressions from a first foray into next gen golf games
While I'm a relatively hardcore gamer, Tiger Woods 09 for the PS3 was my first experience playing a golf game on the current generation of consoles.

Bearing that disclaimer in mind, two words have summed up my experience with the title so far: cohesive fun. This is a game that just seems to be put together well. Playing on normal difficulty, I've found the gameplay and controls to be incredibly intuitive. I was a bit leery of the analog swing control given experiences with other games, but they've nailed it here. It ended up feeling like a very natural way to play the game and reminded me of playing Golden Tee at the arcades. The more traditional 3 click method is also available but I haven't even needed to try it.

The game tracks your skills in four different categories and these can either rise or decline after each round. It set me around 3.5 (out of 10) initially and I've seen steady increases.

Online functionality is executed well. There are persistent GamerNet challenges which present distance or accuracy challenges based on other users performances. This provides a constant extra incentive to nail a shot or improve.

Other reviews have noted that the game might be too easy but I've found it to be just right so far. I'm not making birdies and eagles on every shot but I'm also not stuck making triple bogeys either. The best compliment I can give the game is that it makes the process of playing extremely natural with almost no learning curve (however there is plenty of depth as well).

Solid Entertainment
I agree with all of the pro and con comments made by the other reviewers. This game is an enjoyable alternative to the shooters that are out there. The graphics are great. I had a group over for Labor Day including two avid and excellent golfers, one who had played Pebble Beach. They got into a stroke play game that had the women watching and enjoying.

The game is easy to pick up and learn. Unlike watching golf on TV, you get to follow the trajectory of the ball and see what happened prior to the ball coming down. The career path is fun and pulls you in from the start. In short, the game is well laid out and no where near as complicated to learn as a game such as Madden 09.

I purchased this to have an alternative in my game collection to shooters and something that could be played at gatherings. That meant easy to learn and something watchable to those not directly involved in the game. The game has a good amount of variety to provide a lot of play time. If you measure the value of game by the number of minutes of play time you get from the game without it getting old, you will definitely get your money's worth.

Everything that was wrong with 2008 has been corrected. The best Tiger Woods game since 2005.
After the major disappointment with Tiger Woods 2008 I went back to the 2005 version of the game. 2008 was hard to play and not much fun. But I'm happy to say that the 2009 Tiger Woods game is great. The way it looks, the way it plays is so much better then 2008. I will allow others who are better at writing reviews give the details. I can just say I didn't like 2006 , 2007 or 2008. I did like 2005 and this is better then 2005. A major improvement.