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EA SPORTS™ PGA TOUR™

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• Supports up to 16 online players with PS Plus
• Online play optional
• 1 - 4 players

What is EA SPORTS PGA TOUR?

Experience the exclusive home of the Majors

EA SPORTS PGA TOUR is the only place you can tee up at the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open Championship and The Open Championship.

Compete in the PGA TOUR's best events in the season-long race for the FedExCup. Conquer the top Amateur Championships, including the Augusta National Women's Amateur™, the U.S. Amateur™ and other elite international amateur events.

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• 1500 PGA TOUR POINTS
• PGA TOUR XP Bundle

EA SPORTS PGA TOUR key features

Pure Strike

Utilizing official PGA TOUR ShotLink powered by CDW and TrackMan data, Pure Strike gives you all the tools you need — including a set of 20 Shot Types — to realistically attack every hole on every golf course, the same way the pros do.

With Pure Strike, golfer-specific tendencies are combined with unique Course Dynamics and revolutionized Ball Behavior for the premier golf gameplay experience, resulting in unique golf swings with a fluid feel and realistic outcomes on every shot. 

Choose from a set of 20 Shot Types strategically during your round. Each Shot Type utilizes different club types, and each produces different Ball Behavior, so you can attack every course like a pro.

Course Dynamics

Backed by a rigorous course tuning process from tee to green, lifelike Course Dynamics ensure no two golf courses play the same. Every fairway, green and rough is meticulously scanned, handcrafted and uniquely tuned to simulate the individual nuances of different courses and terrain variables.

Ball Behavior

With three ball flight trajectories (high, medium, low), revolutionized Ball Behavior delivers next-gen responsiveness between your club, the golf ball and the golf course. Once your shot lands, the ball spins, bounces, dribbles and rolls as it would in real life.

The world’s most exclusive courses

Play at 30 courses including 28 of the world’s most prestigious tracks and two fantasy courses. Designed in stunning quality with Frostbite™ so you can enjoy more of golf’s finer details than ever before.

Immerse yourself in the stunning visual beauty and photo-realistic detail of pristine, bucket-list golf courses around the globe. Featuring unique Course Dynamics, test your skills and face the same challenges as the pros on every golf shot.

What courses are featured in EA SPORTS PGA TOUR?

• Augusta National
• The Old Course at St Andrews Links
• Pebble Beach
• The Los Angeles Country Club
• Southern Hills
• TPC Sawgrass
• Wilmington Country Club
• TPC Southwind
• TPC Scottsdale
• Whistling Straits
• Quail Hollow
• Torrey Pines
• The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort
• Chambers Bay
• Banff Springs
• Liberty National
• Harbour Town
• The Riviera Country Club
• Top of the Rock
• Bandon Dunes
• Evian Resort
• Teeth of the Dog
• Wetlands (fantasy course)
• Lighthouse Pointe (fantasy course)

Your career, your way

Create and customize a golfer and take on the PGA TOUR's best events in the season-long chase for the FedExCup. Develop your skills through unified RPG progression so you can master each course and learn to attack every hole like a pro on your way to becoming a Major champion.

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EA Sports PGA Tour Update Adds 3-Click Swing System And Tons More Good Improvements

Following criticism at launch, EA Sports has delivered a big new update for its pro golf game.

By Eddie Makuch on April 20, 2023 at 9:07AM PDT

EA Sports PGA Tour has been updated with a number of welcome improvements, the biggest of which is the promised three-click swing system that harkens back to golf games of old.

The three-click system lets you click once to initiate a swing, click again at the top of the arc, and then once more at the bottom to complete the swing. Hitting the sweet spot is the goal to execute a good swing. To ensure fairness, some online events in EA Sports PGA Tour have rules about which swing types are supported. The standard swing system will stay in the game as an option.

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EA Sports PGA Tour's swing system was criticized at launch for being laggy and inconsistent. According to EA Sports, it was always planning to add a three-click swing system after launch, and now it's finally here.

Also with the new title update, EA Sports PGA Tour has a new "Fast Play" option that skips player reactions. Before this, players had to wait and watch golfers ham it up with the crowd before moving on to their next shot.

The new update also lets players turn the putt meter visibility on and off, and it also provides an on/off option for button hints. Additionally, the putting grid will now fade away after the ball hits the green to help with visibility. Also related to putting, the green grid beads will now "flow more accurately" to help players read putts more effectively.

What's more, the new EA Sports PGA Tour update includes new camera fixes. Previously, playing the ball out of certain positions would limit visibility, but that should be sorted out now. And in another response to player feedback, EA Sports PGA Tour now includes a "shot types" screen in the Pause menu that explains different shot types to players to help them learn what to do.

You can read up on all the major EA Sports PGA Tour changes in this blog post .

Beyond these changes, EA said it is "constantly evaluating community feedback" as it looks to make additional improvements to EA Sports PGA Tour over time. Fans have been calling for a proper tutorial mode to help them learn the basics, but EA Sports didn't say if this is being worked on.

The game was released on April 7 during the middle of the biggest professional golf tournament of the year, The Masters. GameSpot's EA Sports PGA Tour review scored the game a 7/10.

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EA Sports PGA Tour gets a 60fps mode and more via title update

EA Sports PGA Tour has added one of the most requested things from the community via a title update today: 60fps mode.

One of the biggest complaints about the game is that, despite looking incredible and being current-generation only for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X, it didn’t offer a performance mode at launch, but title update 4.5 has added that exact option, which EA says means console players can now use the new “visual quality” setting to switch between quality mode and performance mode, via the in-game visual settings screen.

EA says that quality mode “represents the game’s default and original setting, which provides the highest quality visuals at 30 frames per second (FPS)”, while performance mode is “an all-new rendering mode, which provides smoother camera motion and animation at 60 FPS, at the expense of lower resolution and visual fidelity”.

The screenshot at the top of this article is performance mode, while the image above (just up there) is the quality mode, if that helps you decide to use one or the other.

Ahead of the US Women’s Open kicking off next week, EA Sports PGA Tour has also been updated under the hood, says EA, to “support a series of challenges which will be released during the tournament taking place at the iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links from July 6th through the 9th”.

The main menu also now has dynamic messages, similar to titles like FIFA 23, so the dev-team can update players when new content or patches are released. Update 4.5 includes more than this, also adding quality of life updates and stability fixes, including crashes and softlocks relating to network disconnects. Visual improvements have been made to some hairstyles, and rare occurrences where button spamming after restarting a match would cause the golfer to move to an incorrect position have also been fixed. You can check out the full list of patch notes, here .

EA Sports PGA Tour is out now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S|X.

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EA Sports PGA Tour Releases Update 4.0

The latest EA Sports PGA Tour update brings a variety of new content and fixes various bugs to improve the gameplay of this golfing sports game.

EA Sports PGA Tour released the patch notes of its 4.0 update, which fixes various bugs and improves the overall gameplay experience for all golf lovers. This update comes two months after the official release of EA Sports PGA Tour to fix issues and bring many quality-of-life improvements requested by the community.

EA Sports PGA Tour is the latest entry in the eponymous franchise, bringing this sports game back into the spotlight after an eight-year hiatus. Compared to previous games in the franchise, including Tiger Woods PGA Tour and the more recent Rory McIlroy PGA Tour , this new edition of EA Sports PGA Tour brings various new features and gameplay improvements. EA Sports PGA Tour includes over 30 different courses, including Augusta National, the Old Course at St Andrews Links, and two fantasy courses. EA announced that more courses will join the game in the coming months, and one of them is releasing with EA Sports PGA Tour update 4.0.

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The patch notes of EA Sports PGA Tour update 4.0 reveal a variety of stability fixes and gameplay improvements, as well as the introduction of new weekly and seasonal content. This update brings the Los Angeles Country Club to all game modes, increasing the number of available courses in EA Sports PGA Tour . The U.S. Open Championship now alternates every season between The Los Angeles Country Club and The Country Club in career mode, and new challenges will be available during the U.S. Open Championship to recreate key moments of this competition.

On top of the stability fixes and new weekly challenges, the EA Sports PGA Tour update 4.0 brings many quality-of-life improvements, such as a new look for the Swing Meter and Aiming Arc to better indicate where the ball will be heading. This update also changes some of the golfers’ models to better represent some of the pro golfers included in EA Sports PGA Tour , which adds women golfers for the first time in the franchise.

EA promised to regularly update its golfing sports game, with more challenges and courses added throughout the months. Ever since the release of Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf in 1998, the franchise has brought over $771 million to Electronic Arts, and because 2023’s EA Sports PGA Tour sales on Steam amounted to almost $700,000 during the first week of its release, it seems likely that EA will keep on improving the game and release new entries to regain PGA Tour ’s place as one of the most popular sports games .

EA Sports PGA Tour Update 4.0 Patch Notes

Store & content.

• New specs can be earned through weekly quests, weekly tournaments, and seasonal tournaments.
• Command Series: Improves Power and Control attributes.
• Escape Series: Improves Accuracy and Recovery attributes.
• Patrick Cantlay
• Jessica Korda
• Lexi Thompson
• Additional cosmetic content will be added to the store later this week.

Gameplay Indicators

• Add new “Modern” swing meter visuals with notchless design and improved visibly in bright skies.
• New “Swing Meter Style” visual setting replaces “Club Trail” setting. Options for using previous swing meter visuals and enabling/disabling club trails are included.
• Updated aiming arc to add an effect and change color if the ball is projected to collide before it reaches its apex. This is intended to better indicate when aimed at obvious obstructions like bunker lips directly in front of the golfer or trees that are out of view.
• Related to these changes are visual improvements to the putt read line, aiming arc, and online ball trails.
• Fixed flat edges sometimes being displayed on shot dispersion indicator when aimed on extremely sloped terrain.
• Fixed big hit moments sometimes showing incorrect ball tracer lines near where the ball is hit.

Gameplay Physics

• Course-specific ball flight physics has been updated and altitude information has been added to the course select screen.
• Note that the ball typically flies further and with a slightly lower trajectory when playing at high altitude courses like Banff Springs
• Minor improvements to ball rolling physics, fixing some unnatural movement that could occur when slowly rolling down steep slopes.

Gameplay Animation

• Fix instances where swinging while the golfer is moving to address the ball would result in a frozen swing animation.
• Fix instances where the golfer could get stuck in a continuous shuffle.

Gameplay Cameras

• Update address camera obstruction logic to move to the next highest available camera instead of always moving to the highest camera.
• Fix drop ball camera positioning for left-handed golfers.

Gameplay HUD

• Only show drop-down text such as “For eagle to win hole” when the golfer is on the green or within 50 yards of the hole.
• Update drop-down text to say “…to win match” instead of “…to tie hole” in cases where tying the hole will win the match.
• Fix for the ball flight graph not being updated when ball flight is skipped.

Gameplay Misc

• Improve AI golfer’s ability to make short putts.
• Fix for rare occurrences that could incorrectly place the golfer under tournament structures for their next shot.
• Fix for ball being visible in practice state after a hole flyover is viewed while the golfer is in practice state.
• Fix for a crash that could occur after completing the last hole in a playoff.
• Updated David Lingmerth to have Sweden instead of USA flag.
• Permanently disable golfer reaction NIS in online gameplay in order to speed up play for all players.
• Fix for softlock during online gameplay if player expires their hole timer while using “Fast Play” setting.
• Fix for incorrect order of players in online in-game scoreboard after a player quits or disconnects during a round.
• Fix for crowd members obstructing the golfer in the first shot of some challenges.
• Added animation to challenge banner shown after holing out.
• Fix for some visual settings not being saved persistently unless the save button was pressed multiple times.
• Fix for putting grid setting not updating when changed during active gameplay.
• Numerous fixes and improvements for commentary during rounds that use Match Play scoring.
• Reworked St. Andrews ambience, added additional bird and background sounds.
• Fix for crowd sometimes not applauding short putts.
• Fix for commentary mentioning “beautiful afternoon” when using “Morning” time of day.
• Global: Update a number of courses to use course-specific or tournament-specific tee markers depending on the context for the round.
• Chambers Bay: Fix for ocean texture flickering.
• Chambers Bay: Remove misplaced terrain decal on right side of hole 17.
• East Lake: Fix for a structure handrail being visible behind the 9th green when structures are disabled.
• Lighthouse Pointe: Fix for some online spectator cameras being obstructed by trees on holes 10 and 16.
• Oak Hill: Fix tee marker placement.
• Pebble Beach: Add collision to bushes on the right side of hole 3.
• Pebble Beach: Remove long grass that was encroaching on hole 8 tee box.
• Pebble Beach: Fix unnatural seagull movement on hole 7.
• Pebble Beach: Fix for incorrect color on some tournament structures such as holes 5 and 6.
• Teeth of the Dog: Fix blurry hole images shown in hole preview screen.
• TPC Scottsdale: Fix for the caddie being visible while playing holes 17 and 18.
• TPC Scottsdale: Add collision to a variety of cacti.
• Quail Hollow: Fix for some crowd members clipping through each other in the tournament structures on the 15th hole.
• Wilmington Country Club: Fix incorrect tree hitbox on hole 3.
• Updated Scottie Scheffler’s head model.
• Dustin Johnson updated to use Taylormade glove.
• Xander Schauffele updated to use Callaway glove.
• Update Jessica Korda’s outfits and logos.

Outfits & Gear

• Fix texture clipping on EA SPORTS V-Neck polos.
• Fix some instances where the golfer’s hand was clipping through the glove.
• Fix for golfer hair clipping with hat for few seconds when entering gameplay using low visual settings.
• Brighten texture on “EA SPORTS – White” ball.

General Stability

• Fix for softlock caused by exiting gameplay quickly after entering a round.
• Fix for softlock occurring if the “Sharing Options” popup is viewed while a round is being completed.
• Fix for softlock when “hold to skip” is used during TPC Scottsdale hole 16 NIS.
• [PS5] Fix for starting an activity from within the EIS resulting in being unable to enter Quick Play without restarting the game.
• Structures, outfits, wipes, etc. update to use the latest U.S. Open logo.
• Updated The Open logo on pin flags.
• Ensure the loading screen for Augusta National always shows the Masters Trophy instead of the seasonal trophy.
• Wells Fargo Championship updated to use one-color white logo.
• FedEx St. Jude Championship updated to use one-color white logo.
• Career: Update all in-game leaderboards to show “E” in the “Total” column for any golfer that has not teed off yet.
• Career: Fix for navigating to “FedExCup Rankings” when the player attempts to directly open “Statistics” or “Official World Golf Ranking”.
• Career: Fix for “Season Timeline” overlapping in gameplay if the quest tab is accessed from the scorecard screen after viewing quests from “Season Summary” in the Career Hub.
• Challenges: Fix for text overlapping the golfer in some preview rewards screens.
• Equipment: Add “Change Club” button to the first driver slot.
• Equipment: Fix for the “Equip to all” button applying blueprints to incorrect clubs in non-default bags in some circumstances.
• Equipment: Fix for the equip confirmation pop-up having a non-functional “No” button.
• Equipment: Fix text overlap that occurs when using “Copy Bag”.
• Leaderboards: Removed “Sort” and “My Position” from all leaderboards.
• Leaderboards: Removed “View Profile” button when viewing an empty leaderboard.
• Manage Golfers: Unable to delete multiple golfers without leaving and reentering the screen to refresh the list of golfers.
• Online: The “Players in session” counter now shows “1” instead of “0” when a player is in an online lobby prior to matchmaking.
• Online: Fix for “Add Players” button being shown when 4 players are in a lobby.
• Outfits: Remove “Equip to all” button when a “None” node is selected.
• Outfits: Fix for incorrect outfit sometimes being displayed after quickly navigating between outfits.
• Outfits: Fix for the wrong item being selected after using “Equip to all” twice on the same item.
• Outfits: Update outfits screen to more consistently display the item description area when navigating through nodes.
• Outfits: Remove icon transparency on non-equipped clothing categories.
• Outfits: Fix text overlap that occurs when using “Copy Outfit”.
• Private Match: Fix for “Start Round” button still being displayed after a player left and there is only one player remaining in the EIS.
• Quick Play: Fix for custom holes that were previously selected continuing to persist even though a non-custom hole select option was most recently selected.
• Quick Play: Fix for the “Go To Mode Select” button not working when focused on a nameplate.
• Settings: Fix for gameplay style text incorrectly changing to “Custom” when Swing or Putt Mechanic is changed in Tournaments or Online mode.
• Store: Add timer to indicate when pages will be updated with new content.
• Store: Remove the ‘Rotate Camera’ button hint when attempting to equip a newly purchased VFX item.
• Store: Add text description to body of “Insufficient Funds” pop-up message.
• Store: Item names are now centered.
• Tooltips: Full redesign and update of gameplay onboarding tooltips.
• Tooltips: Fix tooltips being displayed during a hole flyover or “Unplayable Lie” screen.
• Tooltips: Fix for gameplay tooltips being displayed on the scorecard screen if the screen is opened during the intro NIS.
• Tooltips: Update references of “Competitive” to “Online”.
• Tournaments: Update rewards pop-up to display a score of 0 as “E”.
• Fix for double input being recorded on store pages when using mouse input to dismiss an error popup.
• Fix for players being able to access locked challenge tiles by using mouse input to click the “Select” button prompt.
• Fixes to various screens and gameplay HUD elements in order to scale correctly and better support wide screen monitors.

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EA Sports PGA Tour update 6.0 patch notes: Season 5 is here

• Author: Marco Wutz

Update 6.0 for EA Sports PGA Tour has arrived on PC , PS5 , and Xbox Series X|S , bringing the FedExCup Playoffs as well as Season 5 into the game. Among the content and features offered by this patch is the North Course at Olympia Fields Country Club, which is now available in all game modes. Three weeks of new challenges will also be released that recreate key moments from each of the three FedExCup Playoff events.

Season 5 came with a new Pro Pass with exclusive rewards in the free and premium version, such as Scottie Sheffler’s Signature Irons Spec, the new Orange TaylorMade MyStealth 2 Driver, or Jordan Spieth’s Scottie Cameron 009 Putter.

Match Play is now available to play in both Online and Private Match modes. Online leaderboards have been updated to differentiate between Match Play and Stroke Play performance. Since this is the first online turn-based format that has been released, the developers are looking for player feedback on this to further tune the experience. The final highlight is that one round tournaments are now available in Career mode.

You can watch the trailer for the update below and can scroll down further for the full EA Sports PGA Tour update 6.0 patch notes .

EA Sports PGA Tour update 6.0 patch notes

• Specs for Season 5:
• Superior Power and Superior Accuracy: These specs focus on significantly improving your Power or Accuracy attribute.
• Xander Schauffele and Sungjae Im’s signature series specs will be added to the store.
• Complete the Pro Pass and earn Scottie Sheffler’s Signature Irons Spec.
• Aiming arc and ball trails are no longer visible on the black screen during a fade-out.
• Fix for HUD being momentarily visible at the end of hole flyovers that were initiated from the scorecard menu.
• Updated aiming arc to show the power of the arc using the exact lie effect percentage when the player’s Lie Effect setting is off. When the Lie Effect setting is on, the aiming arc continues to use the average of the lie effect range to determine the power of the arc.
• Fixed the “Team Ball” Quick Play format, which was not scoring the match correctly and showing the wrong type of scorecard. The fix was applied to servers on August 4th.
• Fixed numerous issues related to how FedExCup Starting Strokes for the TOUR Championship were being displayed and sorted in scorecards, leaderboards, and the HUD.
• Tournaments:
• Fixed issues where the Tournament fee was not being charged back to the player’s account after experiencing an error. The fix was applied to servers on July 27th.
• Challenges:
• Fixed instances where pro golfers were being shown instead of the player’s created golfer when previewing challenge rewards.
• Fixed issue where Scottie Scheffler was always the AI opponent in challenges. This fix was already applied to servers on August 4th.
• Fixed issue where Live Quests were not being displayed in the UI. The fix was applied to servers on August 9th.
• Improve texture resolution and overall visual quality on 5 courses:
• Chambers Bay
• TPC Sawgrass
• TPC Scottsdale
• Augusta National: Reprimanded and corrected camera operators in the towers on holes 12, 13, and 15 who were not filming their greens.
• Bandon Dunes: Fixed tree hit box being too big on the right side of the tee shot for hole 9.
• Bandon Dunes: Fix for tree disappearing during the hole 7 flyover when using performance mode.
• Bandon Dunes: Adjusted sun glow effect in the morning so that it is better aligned with the position of the sun.
• Bay Hill: Fixed inconsistent bark texture on willow oaks.
• Chambers Bay: Updated bunker textures to improve visuals when viewing from a distance.
• Chambers Bay: Improved antialiasing on the fence on the right side of hole 16.
• Evian Resort: Fixed base of camera tower on hole 16 being slightly off the ground.
• Lighthouse Pointe: Fix for stairs on the lighthouse being slightly above the terrain..
• Oak Hill: Fixed trees floating above the ground on the left side of the fairway on hole 17.
• Pebble Beach: Fixed collision that was missing on some sidewalk curbs.
• PGA WEST: Improved antialiasing on wooden planks that line bunkers around the course.
• Royal Liverpool: Added the internal out of bounds area to the course, which was previously missing.
• Royal Liverpool: Fixed chimney textures on Hole 1 sometimes being incorrectly displayed as white on some graphics settings.
• Royal Liverpool: Updated bunkers so that the sod edge wraps the full perimeter of all bunkers.
• Royal Liverpool: Fixed some walls and bushes popping in during the flyover camera on hole 1.
• Royal Liverpool: Adjusted sun glow effect in the morning so that it is better aligned with the position of the sun.
• Tara Iti: Fixed 3D grass not appearing properly on a number of greens.
• Tara Iti: Fixed a patch of grass that was floating above the terrain on hole 18.
• Teeth of the Dog: Cut grass that was clipping through the concrete base of the patio on the left side of hole 1.
• The Country Club: Cut grass that was clipping through the bridge near the 10th green.
• TPC Boston: Fixed tree hit box being too big on the left side of the tee shot for hole 14.
• TPC Boston: Buoyed some ducks that were floating below the level of the water height.
• TPC Scottsdale: Fixed inconsistent collision on the floating WM logo next to holes 17 and 18.
• TPC Southwind: Improved antialiasing on fence near the green and right side of hole 1.
• Wetlands: Cut grass that was clipping through the concrete base of the structure next to the 15th green.
• Global: Updated thumbnail images for all clubs so that they’re oriented to better display the club.
• Challenges: Fix for the challenge card remaining on the screen if the player exits back to gameplay quickly after changing a setting.
• Equipment: Fix for “Copy Bag” applying Bag 1 instead of the currently selected bag if “Copy Bag” is used immediately after changing equipment.
• Equipment: Fix for the wrong item being focused in the yardage breakdown panel when navigating between bags.
• Equipment: Updated the “Swap All” confirmation popup to clarify that the item is applied to all compatible clubs, not only the currently selected type of club.
• Gameplay: Changed “Exit” button to “End Round” and removed the confirmation popup if the round is completed.
• Gameplay: Added a background to the shot types screen.
• Identity: Fix for golfer name being erased after navigating quickly through identity screen contents.
• Loading: Fix for showing the incorrect seasonal trophy when returning from gameplay.
• Main Menu: Added a notification that links the player to the skills screen after skill points have been earned.
• Main Menu: Fix for the timer of a pinned quest being cut off in the main menu.
• Online: Updated the matchmaking timer to only display minutes and seconds.
• Online (Stroke Play): Fixed the outro leaderboard so that it correctly shows the course logo instead of always displaying the TPC Sawgrass logo.
• Online (Stroke Play): Changed the order of columns in the outro leaderboard from Win/Ties/Losses to Win/Losses/Ties.
• Private Match (Stroke Play): Show leaderboard with match results in the end round screen.
• Private Match: Fix for Private Match being in an unplayable state if the player spams “Select” in the golfer selection screen.
• Quests: Removed the “Manage Golfers” button from the Quests tab due to issues caused by being able to change your golfer while in Career mode.
• Quests: Added a notification that links the player to the rewards screen after completing quests.
• Rewards: Fixed text overlap that occurred when viewing multiple packs with long names.
• Skills: Fixed shot types information panel alignment so that it no longer overlaps with text behind it.
• Tournaments: Updated background image for tournaments on Royal Liverpool to show an image of the course.
• Update UI to use the latest version of the TravisMathew logo.
• Fixed the inner element of the BMW logo being transparent instead of solid white.
• Fixed crash that could occur when backing out of a sub item tab in the equipment screen.
• Additional crash and stability-related fixes.
• Accessibility:
• Fix for menu narration reading subtabs first instead of main tabs after accessing a main tab for the second time.

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It only seems like the biggest features in EA Sports PGA Tour , which launches April 7, are the ones that fans already played and enjoyed a decade ago. Augusta National Golf Course and all four of the men’s major championships are in; even things like boosted drives with “big-hit moment” camera changes are making a return.

But focusing only on the return of the Masters Tournament, or the visual fidelity with which Augusta National and other courses are presented, would sell short what I saw in a presentation last week. Namely, a career mode that is even more RPG-like than before, offers more ways to customize and mold your created golfer’s playing style, and looks like it will swallow just as many of my evenings as the old Tiger Woods games did.

EA Sports PGA Tour looks like a game where, even though there will be more real-life professionals on the roster than ever, the developers understand that the users themselves are the real stars of the show.

“Even when we had Tiger, over 97% of people play as a created player,” producer Ben Ramsour told Polygon in an interview after the presentation. “So we know that’s a core motivation. However, we’ve done a lot to build these relationships with these pros, and we want to tell their stories in the game.”

Granted, I couldn’t pull much from a single glimpse of the detailed golfer progression screen we were shown. But players will rank up 10 different skills (each with 10 ranks) as they acquire skill points with each level. Lead producer David Baker even intimated that at advanced levels, players will be able to unlock packages of traits that will make their golfer’s abilities resemble the playing styles of the PGA’s and LPGA’s biggest stars.

All of this leans into new gameplay that continues to offer broad-based shot-shaping features and differentiates them even more with 20 shot types, some of which are unlocked in the later stages of attribute progression. Those shot types may also be ranked up, it seems.

“I think a big thing is experimentation,” Ramsour said, noting that players can again create multiple avatars and progress them individually. He also said, “We want users to see, Hey, Tony Finau’s game really matches well to Augusta, but it’s terrible for Harbour Town .”

This is surfaced through a nifty little menu that I saw called Course Fit, which stole the show as far as something new that will connect me more to my created golfer. Course Fit, seen on the course selection screen, gives players a relative view of their skills versus what the course will expect of a winning player. Five attributes — Power, Driving, Approach, Short Game, and Putting — all have bars; the closer a player’s bar is to the course’s, the more they’ll be able to take advantage of that characteristic.

It’s not an attribute boost; it’s just visual information that will give me a sense of just how risky my ideas are on the second shot of, say, one of East Lake Golf Club’s par-5 holes, or how important it’s going to be to stick this approach at Pebble Beach, where there’s a demanding putting game waiting for me.

“So for me, I want to win the major championships,” Ramsour said. “So in my primary created player, I am leveling up the shot types to win the four majors. But eventually, I’m going to want to win every single tournament on the hardest mode. So I know I’m going to have to be less of a bomber and more precise to win at Harbour Town.”

Although players may have multiple created golfers, most stick with one for Career. They will most likely see all of the differences Ramsour mentioned in Challenges, a separate mode, but one that has a supplementary effect to Career.

Challenges, to me, resembled the kind of bite-sized moments available in Madden Ultimate Team’s single-player offering. Indeed, they’ll be live-service content, driven by real-world occurrences, and like MUT, they’ll use different players in addition to the created pro. Baker said that the challenges are designed to play like between-rounds practices, meaning they’ll be shorter experiences focused on a particular skill or a particular moment.

The rewards will be skill points for use in created-player progression, as well as clubs and cosmetic items they can equip. (Importantly, these clubs, equipment, and apparel do not affect player attributes, as they may have in the past.) Golfers can expect a season-based approach here that other online sports video games have adopted.

All of these modes, players, and courses — 30 at launch, the most ever for the standard edition of an EA Sports golf title — mean little if the core gameplay isn’t tight, informative, and understandable. While the event last week was not hands-on, the developers focused on the swing mechanism and the 20 shot types supporting it in a one-hole demonstration at Augusta’s No. 13.

Best example: a “stinger,” which is a lower but safer shot from the tee. Gameplay designer Craig Penner used the stinger to rope a 266-yard drive with Jordan Spieth that still hugged No. 13’s famous left-hand sweep — it just used the downhill fairway to get its distance. In the end, Spieth sacrificed about 10 yards of distance to make a safer shot. This is something I would often try to replicate in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 , but the lowest trajectory that game offered didn’t come close to what I saw last week.

Ramsour, playing as 2022 Masters winner Scottie Scheffler, used a boost-assisted power drive — impressive, and successful, but still a dangerous shot that is a blind approach, and which could clip the treetops if not executed perfectly. But again, Scheffler is longer off the tee than Spieth, so both golfers were playing to type and taking, or avoiding, appropriate risks (especially as they were highlighted by Course Fit).

I was also struck by the bits of commentary we heard from the game as the demonstration played out. For once, it sounded like the broadcast team was actually watching what was being played. Lead commentator Rich Lerner returns from 2015’s Rory McIlroy PGA Tour , and on Penner’s shot with Spieth, I heard him discussing the use of the fairway’s width and slope to get the desired result.

Returning broadcast partner Frank Nobilo (and new course reporters Notah Begay III and Iona Stephen ) also provided context-appropriate color, a dramatic improvement over past games, which mostly offered generic repetition.

“We have tech that delivers detailed analysis on how putts will break,” Baker said in last week’s presentation. “There’s also a system that connects the field reporter analysis of the current situation, and also highlights landmarks from our great list of courses, to tell historical stories from those exact spots on the course.”

EA Sports PGA Tour launches Friday, April 7 — during the second round of the Masters — on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X . Those who pre-order the $84.99 deluxe edition will get access to the game on Tuesday, April 4. The deluxe edition has additional in-game content, such as virtual currency for the in-game pro shop’s items and an XP boost.

Update (March 3): EA Sports has announced that EA Sports PGA Tour will be delayed two weeks from its originally announced release date, and will now arrive on April 7. This story has been updated with the new date.

EA Play Is Adding EA Sports PGA Tour For PS5 This Week

Michael Harradence / April 3, 2024

EA Sports PGA Tour is the latest game set to join the ranks of EA Play for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in the latest update to the subscription service this Thursday, the mega-publisher has announced.

The golfing simulation title is the first major genre entry from EA since 2015, and launched for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S on April 7, 2023. Powered by the Frostbite engine, EA Sports PGA Tour includes many iconic courses and sees players competing against some of the biggest names in the sport.

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One of the new features introduced with the golfing sim is Pure Strike, and features integration with PGA Tour’s statistics tool ShotLink and TrackMan. Tours include Cameron Charm, Tony Finau, Nelly Korda, Hideki Matsuyama, Xander Schauffele, and Scottie Scheffler.

You can read our full review of EA Sports PGA Tour here .

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