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Tiger Woods PGA Tour is the 13th release in the PGA Tour series and the 6th to feature Tiger Woods. It was developed by EA Redwoods Shores Headgate Studios for PC and Mac, Sensory Sweep Studios for DS and EA Canada for PSP, published by EA Sports.

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• 1 My Legend Pursuit
• 2 Hall of Legends
• 3 EA Game Face II
• 5 Tiger Proofing

My Legend Pursuit

My Legend Pursuit acts as the main story/rival mode of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. The story is divided into 6 different iconic golfers and under each of them is a sub-menu of challenges that the player must complete in order to challenge the rival in the Legend Tour. After completing the 5 legends, the player can progress to challenge Sunday Tiger Woods.

Hall of Legends

"Located atop "The Roof" the "Hall of Legends" museum invites you to view a unique collection of trophies, photographs and memorabilia outlining some of golf's legends' greatest accomplishments. Watch your own wing expand with each accomplishment completed during your pursuit o becoming a part of golf history."

In-game menu

The Hall of Legends is a new feature to the Tiger Woods series but only appeared in the 2005 release. It is a virtual museum where the player can unlock various exhibits of each legendary golfer by completing the relevant stages of the Legend Pursuit. The far room is allocated for the player character and features displays for medals, PGA TOUR Season Trophies, trophy balls, Real Time Events Awards, Legend Tour Trophies, Legend Scenarios Trophies and Tracking Trophies.

A full tour of the Hall of Legends can be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZ0SCjz-0M&t=437s&ab_channel=SilentGaming

[Please note this tour features the Hall of Legends as it appears in a new save file]

Hall of Legends as seen in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 for PS2

EA Game Face II

EA Game Face II features the most advanced character creation tools to date. Additional sliders can be accessed allowing for fine tune of facial and body features. Coupled with this is the ever more expansive Pro shop.

A full demonstration of the Game Face II editor can be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNL2KkDqbA4&ab_channel=SilentGaming

Tiger Proofing

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 was the first game in the series to features an in-game course editor. Rather than to create courses as is the case with 2K21, the aim of the editor was to create more challenging courses, to coin the phrase 'Tiger-proof' them, making them more difficult. Completed rivals in the Legend Tour can challenge the player golfer on their own created courses.

Tiger-Proofing allowed the player to edit the fairway, rough, green, bunkers and environmental features such as clouds, windiness, tree color and more. Players could also add their own logos to tee boxes, fairways, flag poles, the flag itself and more.

Legend Coins enabled the player to unlock more options such as colors, logos and textures for their course. Players could also create their own logos, using an in-game paint like UI, but this was fairly complex to use.

A full demonstration of the Tiger Proofing mode can be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Evci4UHnA&t=530s&ab_channel=SilentGaming

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 settled with fewer courses than 2004 , including new additions and two new fantasy courses , retaining Emerald Dragon from the previous release.

Colonial CC

Coeur D'Alene

Edgewood GC

Farncourt Links

Pebble Beach

Sherwood CC

Troon North Monument

TPC at Sawgrass

Turnberry - Ailsa

Emerald Dragon [$1,000,000 earnings to unlock]

Greek Isles [$1,5000,000 earnings to unlock]

Paradise Cove [$2,000,000 to unlock]

Many of the Fictional golfers featured in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 and 2004 did not return for the 2005 release, which feature many new fictional golfers and additional real life golfers, now also including those from golfing history to fit the Legend Pursuit mode.

Alistair 'Captain' Mcfadden

Adriana 'Sugar' Dulce

Aphrodite Papadapolus

Billy 'Bear' Hightower

Bev 'Boomer' Bouchier

Jeb 'Shooter' Mcgraw

Reginald 'Reg' Weathers

Caesar 'The Emperor' Rosado

Raquel 'Rocky' Rodgers

Tiffany 'Tiff' Williamson

Dion 'Double D' Douglas

Hunter 'Steelhead' Elmore

• 1 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
• 2 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003
• 3 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 Review

It is still computer golf's de facto standard, worthy of consideration even by those who previously purchased last year's model.

By Gord Goble on September 30, 2004 at 2:08PM PDT

Arm outstretched, Tiger Woods points defiantly toward the camera on the front panel of his latest namesake PC golfing game, thus stealing a page from the legendary Uncle Sam "I want you!" pose. But what is he really saying? "I want you...to buy this game?" or "I want you...to stop hero-worshipping Vijay?" Whatever the case, Mr. Woods remains the big box office draw despite the ageless Singh's incredible year and deserved new world number one ranking. Whether we'll one day have a Vijay Singh PGA Tour 2006 is somehow doubtful, but one thing is clear: EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour remains the uncontested champion of virtual golf, even if the man himself currently is not.

Sporting a bevy of upgrades and alterations--including a revamped Game Face utility that may have you spending more time conceiving digital players than putting them into action, the new "legends tour" mode, wherein you climb a competitive ladder to square off against such luminaries as Ben Hogan and Gary Player, and a nifty course-warping tool that custom converts even relatively sedate venues into supreme tests of skill--Tiger 2005 is more sophisticated and engaging than anything prior. Though the game doesn't introduce any serious gameplay mechanic advancements and though it remains weighed down by several quirks that become only more annoying with time, it is still computer golf's de facto standard, worthy of consideration even by those who previously purchased last year's model.

Indeed, one of the most newsworthy developments over the course of the last year is the ongoing absence of a Tiger rival. Microsoft's once-vaunted Links series hasn't seen an update since 2003 and it does not appear to be reappearing anytime soon. As for other alternatives, the horizon looks as bleak as a rainy morning at Troon. Yet even if one or more Tiger alternatives did currently exist, chances are they'd simply be too inferior to effectively battle the genre leader.

Tiger developer Headgate Studios has been designing golf games since Sierra Entertainment's 1997 release, Front Page Sports Golf. In Sierra's subsequent long-running PGA Championship Golf series, Headgate really came to life, fashioning revolutionary advancements such as the mouse-movement swing and fully animated golfers, thus proving just how entertaining and fully interactive computer golf could be. Its technical aptitude wasn't yet on par with that of the generally acknowledged top gun of the time, Access Software's otherwise comparatively staid and traditional Links, but together they lay waste to other competitors. The fact that just one of the two is currently active at least partially verifies which tactic proved to be superior.

Today, Tiger is an unparalleled smorgasbord of golfing delights that packs no less than 11 courses into its three-CD 2005 format. Granted, that's seven fewer than last year's 18-course edition, though Tiger 2005 features a total of eight brand-new courses to Tiger 2004's five. For the fantasy fans, the game features the Australian outback-inspired Red Mountain Creek and the gorgeous Asian masterpiece, Emerald Dragon. Word to the wise--venture to the latter only if you dare. It may well be one of the most difficult courses to ever emerge from Headgate. New real-life, licensed courses include California's Sherwood Country Club, South Africa's diverse Links at Fancourt, and Arizona's red rock paradise Troon North Monument course. Returning favorites include Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, and TPC at Sawgrass. It almost goes without saying that Tiger 2005 delivers virtually every form of golfing environment on the planet--and even a few that aren't.

The roster of available competitors is better than ever, though it still lacks some of pro golf's most notable standouts. Though you will find Woods, Singh, John Daly, Colin Montgomerie, and the curiously fashionable Jesper Parnevik, you won't see top-rung players such as Phil Mickelson or Ernie Els. The LPGA is also poorly represented by any stretch of the imagination, with last year's holdover Nancy Gulbis being the only participant.

Yet it's in its depiction of fantasy players that the game truly excels. Not only has Headgate supplied 14 prebuilt imaginary characters--including several that look like they should be anywhere but a golf course--but also it has provided a godlike control over the design of new personas. Deemed Game Face II, this highly addictive, in-game player-creation utility is quite possibly the finest to grace any sport game to date. The question isn't whether you want a long or a short nose or beady versus large eyes, but instead how incredibly detailed you want them to be. A nose design, for instance, will include the following parameters: nose length, width, slope, and depth; nostril height and width; the presence or lack of left and right nose moles; and the choice of four types of nostril and bridge piercings. Impressively, each alteration is displayed incrementally in real time. When you factor all the minute parameters and adjustments available in the Game Face utility--including such trivial elements as jewelry, tattoos, and even freckle or age spot density--you have literally millions of different possibilities. And that's not even counting the game's wide range of player-skill attributes.

Indeed, it's not just the stunning exactitude through which a player can be created that sells the whole routine, but the amazing humanness of each new character once he or she is on the course. Never has a golf game featured such a massive roster of believable player animations and expressive faces. That each character looks so good to begin with and so smoothly transitions from one action to another, is yet one more precedent for this already standard-setting series.

As for the world that surrounds each of your golfers, the news on this issue is both encouraging and slightly disappointing. On the upside, each environment is wonderfully "alive." Trees, foliage, and flags move with the wind. Flocks of birds soar through the sky, clouds and translucent low fog roll across the screen, and ocean waves pound against the shoreline at locations such as Pebble Beach. Lakes, meandering streams, and water hazards look lustrous and liquid, veritably glistening in the sunlight and accepting errant shots with a kerplunk and a splash. Elegant lens-flare effects materialize at the most opportune moments, framing your golfer's silhouette in the glow of the late afternoon or early morning sunshine. And, as usual, painstaking graphic detail is evident throughout.

Yet perhaps the most striking visual aspect of the Tiger series is its sense of drama. Heightened by free-roving cameras that alternate between TV-type coverage and dynamic follow-the-ball shots that could only exist in the digital world, the game delivers a consistent buzz of excitement from the first hole to the 18th. If you want to set up your own camera positions, you can do that too, choosing from an array of preset orientations or designing your own by moving, zooming, and rotating the default cam to any spot your heart desires. Dramatic sound effects and upgraded visuals accompany truly spectacular shots, and full-motion video sequences highlight key achievements.

It's generally a superb presentation, marred only by a few glitches. By far the most aggravating of these is the mysterious "warping hole," wherein the hole suddenly disappears from the screen, only to mysteriously reappear several feet away. Granted, holes transmogrified only twice during our long testing procedure, but twice is two times too many for such a perilous occurrence. It should also be noted that it was only the image of the hole that moved--the actual GPS position remained where it was, even though we could no longer see it. Very strange indeed.

Only slightly less annoying is the game's penchant for displaying inappropriate or wrongly placed shot reactions. On several occasions, we've witnessed a cheering gallery or a celebratory golfer when the shot in question was clearly a terrible effort. The opposite is also true--a gathered throng falling into stunned silence or letting loose with a perceptible groan over a near-perfect result. Furthermore, galleries generally react much too early, far before the final resting position of the ball has been established.

The same is true for the game's announcers, David Feherty and Gary McCord. The fact is that both are ideal for a computerized version of golf, given their real-life reputations and mutual senses of humor. And, certainly, the developer has armed each with a ton of phraseology to ensure minimal repetition. But both McCord and Feherty deliver many of their lines too early, before anyone in the real world would have a chance to know the result. And that, of course, makes the actual spotting of the ball anticlimactic. Almost as irritating is the dynamic duo's incredible number of errors. Conservatively, McCord and Feherty proved to be seriously mistaken at least four or five times per round, which is of course particularly vexing when you've just adhered to Feherty's erroneous advice and missed a birdie putt because of it.

Playing Tiger 2005 is an exercise in unparalleled versatility. This is a humongous game, with oodles of possibilities for rookies and veterans alike. Newcomers will likely want to avail themselves of the "new player walk-through," a text-and-graphics guide to what makes the game click. Veterans will undoubtedly gravitate to the new legend tour, where they'll move up a ladder to eventually combat icons such as Gary Payer or Ben Hogan. But the cream of the crop will certainly want to check out a little something called "tiger proofing," where they're able to transform even the tamest course into a fire-breathing monster. If you want a true postage-stamp green or ribbon-thin fairway, or perhaps a sand trap wider than a football field, this is the place to come. The eventual goal is to assemble your "Dream 18," your own personal venue constructed from your favorite--and most challenging--holes taken from all the courses.

This lengthy but involving procedure exemplifies the thinking that makes the new Tiger so compelling. In simple terms, the game grows with you. In more complex terms, virtually every Tiger element is somehow interconnected. By partaking in a tournament, you'll win money, which you can then use to buy lessons and learn new shots, enter other tourneys, buy a dream matchup in the legend tour, and much, much more. The Dream 18 is connected to tiger proofing. Good results in the game's highly structured tournament mode catch the attention of sponsors. Your stature affects your prestige, which earns you the respect of legendary golfers and attracts them to your custom-built monster course, and so on.

Curiously, the game's lessons component is not yet structured to reward truly skilled usage of your club (which could be your mouse or your keyboard, depending on whether you prefer Headgate's true-swing mode or more conventional three-click mode). One might think that in this stage of Tiger's evolution, Headgate would have developed some nifty method by which you could successfully perform a specialized shot only by enacting a deft series of motions or operations in a perfectly staged and timed sequence. But that is not yet the case. Instead, Tiger asks that you merely pay for a lesson and complete it (an easy task in anyone's book). You'll then have that given shot added to the menu bar at the bottom of the gameplay interface. Though you may need to slow your stroke a bit and position a slider before you actually attempt a tricky bump and run or flop or punch, you'll find they are generally not too far removed from a normal shot.

Of course, if you merely want a quick skins, shootout, or stroke game--or one of another dozen custom one-off game types--you can do that too. You can also opt to play against a superstar such as Woods himself, though you may want to rearrange his ability level beforehand in any of eight key skill areas so he's not quite as threatening as he otherwise might be. But the greatest threat of all may be the players you'll meet online.

Tiger 2005 sports a robust and sophisticated online multiplayer component that allows you to do just about anything you can do when you're playing against virtual competition. We were somewhat disappointed when our initial foray met with a server alert, but our subsequent experience was very positive indeed. Here you'll find no shortage of willing participants to engage you in any form of play mode you wish. And for serious players, EA Sports maintains a full stat-tracking system that includes critical information, such as money lists and league leaders. A quick warning to newbies--some dishonest players use a process called "edging" to enhance their swings. In essence, edging allows them to swing arrow-straight even at higher difficulty levels. It's cheating, pure and simple.

In the end, you really don't have much choice. If you want to play golf on your PC, there's currently just one place to turn. Fortunately, it's a great place. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 is the culmination of Headgate's decade of PC golfing experience, and, with the exception of several notable quibbles and a dearth of significant gameplay mechanic innovations, it's a snappy culmination. Tiger 2005 is certainly more straight-up fun than any version of Links, and it is more involving than last year's Tiger 2004. EA and Headgate didn't exactly pull out all the stops for this edition, but they didn't rest completely on their laurels either, and that's a good thing for fans of the pastime.

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005

• PlayStation Portable
• PlayStation 2
• Nintendo DS

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 further refined the character creation system and added new features such as Tiger Proofing and Legends Matches

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New to 2005

Pga/legend golfer roster (incomplete).

• Tiger Woods
• Gary Player
• Seve Ballesteros
• Arnold Palmer
• Jack Nicklaus
• Jesper Parnevyk
• Vijay Singh

Fictional Golfer Roster

• Bev "Boomer" Bouchier
• Billy "Bear" Hightower
• Adriana "Sugar" Dolce
• Alastair "Captain" McFadden
• Aphrodite Papadapolus
• Bunjiro "Bud" Tanaka
• Ceasar "The Emperor" Rosado
• Dion "Double D" Douglas
• Hunter "Steelhead" Elmore
• Jeb "Shooter" McGraw
• Justin "The Hustler" Timberlake
• Kendra "Spike" Lovette
• Raquel "Rocky" Rockers
• Reginald "Reg" Withers
• Tiffany "Tiff Williams

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THREE AT HOME GOLF EXERCISES

The definitive ranking of every Tiger Woods PGA Tour video game

Last August, the newest golf video game—PGA Tour 2K21—was released to the public, quickly becoming a hit among golf fans. While there had been a number of golf games released since the final iteration of the Tiger Woods video game series (in 2014), this was the first one that felt like a must-have, even without Woods' name on the box.

Seven months later, it was announced that Woods will in fact be back on the box. The 15-time major champion has inked a long-term deal with 2K , meaning he'll be returning to a console near you in the future. Rejoice, Cyber Tiger is back.

Of course, this news comes not long after Woods was in a single-car accident, one that has had him hospitalized ever since. Hopefully, Woods makes a full recovery and returns to the real course.

In the mean time, fans might get to relive their Tiger Woods glory days with Woods on an Xbox or Playstation again soon. That got us feeling nostalgic, so naturally we ranked all 16 iterations of the Tiger Woods franchise.

MORE: New PGA Tour 2K21 update allows you to play Bay Hill’s sixth hole like Bryson

2006 was a very weird year for all the EA Sports games. It was basically a lame duck year, as Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 were now the systems to have. That left ’ 06 games in limbo for PS2 owners. Essentially, they were the same game as the year before with a couple of dumb, shiny new features. This was definitely the case for the “Tiger Woods” series as well. ’ 06 was as forgettable as they come.

Not all that different from 1999, which we’ll get to in a bit.

The first year of the analog stick swing. Literally changed the game.

Honestly, 2003 was great, but what came after it makes its existence almost irrelevant.

One of the big selling points for 2011 was the Ryder Cup mode, which flat out stunk. If you’re going to introduce an event like that into the game, one people hold very near and dear to their hearts, you’ve got to do it right. Funny enough, they introduced a pretty big event in the 2012 version of the game and nailed it.

This is purely out of respect for the franchise. Back to where it all began. Graphics? Terrible. Gameplay? Pretty good for PS1 in 1999! After years and years of playing with the analog stick, I can’t imagine playing a golf game where you had to time a meter like you’re kicking a field goal in Madden, but that’s the way it was. Kinda cool that it was exactly Tiger’s swing, but it didn’t feel like you were controlling him. Like I said, this is out of respect. By the way, something I just learned in doing research for this ranking was that there was an “Easter Egg” in the first 100,000 pressings of the game that played “Jesus vs. Santa,” a lost episode of South Park, which is on YouTube . I’m not kidding.

The first “Tiger Woods” to be on PS2 had strong graphics and looked much more like the video games of today, as opposed to the Golden Tee-esque versions of 1999 and 2000. But this game still had the whack swing meter.

I think the only thing separating ’ 09 from ’ 08 was Hank Haney being your coach in the game. The hell was that about?

Might as well just lump 2008 and 2009 together. Kind of forgotten years in the series in my opinion. The big jump on the new systems came in 2010. Although, none of the newest games have the Jesus shot:

This year was a massive step forward for the game in graphics and presentation, which makes sense given it was on the new systems. The real fun, however, was on the PS2 version, which I still own. There was a great team mode and some fun fantasy courses (I believe there was a course in Central Park in this game). But the best part was the addition of Riviera, a course I must have played a thousand times in that game. I guess that means I was “woke” before “woke” even existed, which is an elite level of woke-ness.

2010 was a hit for many reasons, and I think the Nintendo Wii version was the most popular of the bunch this year. But I had it for Xbox 360 and it was just delightful. First off, it was perhaps the best cover of the series, featuring Tiger’s famous, double-fisted U.S. Open celebration at Torrey Pines. That was a particularly nice touch because this was also the first year the U.S. Open was in the game, which coincided with the year it was back at Pebble Beach. Most importantly, this was Anthony Kim’s video-game debut, which was such a monumental occasion that there’s video of Tiger talking up Kim in one of the game ’ s trailers. This was probably the first time in the game’s history that I popped in the disc for the first time and played with someone other than Tiger, that someone being Kim.

Considering it wasn’t all that different from ’ 12, ’ 13 probably shouldn’t be this high, but sometimes more of the same is good. ’ 13 continued to focus on Augusta/The Masters, and the collector’s edition of the game even had a green-jacket ceremony. The two best additions to the game were Rory McIlroy, who was somehow left out of 2012 after being in 2010 and 2011, and Dustin Johnson. They both returned in ’ 13 and ’ 14 and were easily the second- and third-best players in the game behind TW. ’ 13 was the last year of Adam Scott and Justin Rose, who were each staples in the franchise for years. Course-wise, ’ 13 also made some great adds in Royal County Down, Royal Birkdale, The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, Crooked Stick and PGA National.

Some may be scoffing at this being No. 4, which is fair. The first year of Augusta National and a “ Road to the Masters ” career mode in a video game should be worthy of No. 1, but the game only got better in its final two installments. With the introduction of Augusta also came the familiar voice of Jim Nantz, which no one complained about. ’ 12 also featured “The Caddie Experience,” which was cool for all of the first 10 minutes until it became redundant. New golfers included Rickie Fowler, Henrik Stenson, the Molinari brothers, Zach Johnson and Bubba Watson. Sadly, this was the final year of Anthony Kim in the series. Pour one out, folks.

While the year we still haven’t gotten to is the game’s peak, 2005 is actually my favorite year of “Tiger Woods.” Gameplay was similar to the previous year, but there were welcome additions like the ability to adjust your stance/ball position to hit it higher or lower, and the ability to hit a punch and flop shot as well as chips and pitches. Putting was the same, with the same caddie advice and a back and through stroke once you read the putt, but this was the first year of “Tiger Vision,” which you got to use a handful of times per round with the use of the R1 button. By holding it down, your player would zoom in via a narrow cone (just like Tiger!) and see exactly where to aim the putt, turning a sure three-putt into a 76-foot eagle conversion.

Where this game separated itself was the legend mode, which allowed you to unlock Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan and, of course, “Sunday” Tiger Woods. Trying to unlock all those greats, a sick soundtrack, and new courses like Harbour Town, Colonial, Sherwood, Greek Isles (fantasy course) and, my personal favorite, Couer d’Alene, where I once shot 48 with “Sunday” Tiger and … lost to a buddy of mine who shot 46 with Hogan, had me glued to this game for hours on end.

The last “Tiger Woods” game was, in my opinion, the best of the Xbox 360 era, though I won’t fault any ’ 12 or ’ 13 truthers for wanting those higher on this list. All three had Augusta National, which is enough to put them all in a tie for second, but ’ 14, the historic edition specifically, just did it for me. You could play Augusta National in 1934, reverse routing and all. New courses included Muirfield Village, Royal Troon and Oak Hill. In a brilliant nostalgia play, the game also brought back unlockable legends: Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino and Sam Snead. There were even different versions of them, like an early 1960s version Jack Nicklaus and a late 1970s Jack Nicklaus, and you could compete as all of them or against them in reenactments of their greatest career moments. The game’s best feature, however, was having all four major championships in career mode. Much like Michael Strahan, the “Tiger Woods” video game went out on top with the ’ 14 version.

I could just write “DMX. That is all” and drop the mic, but that wouldn’t fully describe this game’s GOATness. Everything about it was perfect right from the “Up in here” opening montage. There were 20 courses, the most in a Tiger Woods game to that point, including new additions like Bethpage Black and Sahalee, as well six fantasy courses (Black Rock Cove was a personal fave). 2004 also featured “Game Face,” which allowed you to create your player’s face to your exact liking, wrinkles and all. The gameplay wasn’t all that different from 2003, but it didn’t need to be. Once the analog stick was introduced, the gameplay was pretty much perfect in the PS2 era. But 2004 was its peak.

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Since this preview was published, EA has confirmed that the Xbox version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 will not feature online support in Europe, but the PS2 version will. See here for more details. And, no, we have no idea what's going through their heads either...

Having tee-sed us [thwock! -bemused Ed trying to consider an appropriate Putt-down] with the prospect of online play last year and then dropped it into a bunker at the last minute with very little warning, EA Sports has some work to do this year with its Tiger Woods franchise if it wants to regain our trust. Of course, the 2004 vintage was actually fantastic - a well-worked expansion of existing principles that introduced real-time events (for which we still fire it up on occasion), a full PGA Tour, and lots of other bells and whistles to a stick-driven golf game that already looked and handled far better than any of the others. But we're not giving EA that, because we wanted to play it online, and it seems inconceivable that while our yankee pals were invited to do so, we were forced to potter around offline in solitude. At least we were - none of our mates were all that keen on "popping over for a quick round before work," even if they were always partial post-pub. Sods.

I don't like your face

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 will very definitely make up for this in one way or another - the 'one way' being the inclusion of those online options, including tournaments, leagues and stat tracking for skins, capture the flag, best ball and other modes, on PS2 and Xbox; and 'another' being the various things we've been tinkering with in our preview build this week. In other words, the rest of the game, which is shaping up to be, well, just about whatever you fancy shaping it to be. Ahead of getting our hands on some online-enabled code in the run-up to the game's late September release, we've been investigating some of the buzzwords on this year's fact sheet, and trying out some of the new courses.

The main theme this year, as it turns out, is customisation - of people, of courses, even of your own golf swing. Literally heading these up is the new Game Face II set of features, which enable you to create a golfer customised to an absolutely ludicrous degree, far in excess of any other character customisation tool we can recall, and that includes stuff we've seen in 700 variations on The Sims over the years. In addition to all the obvious characteristics - height, weight, skin, eye and hair colour, etc - you can add blemishes, freckles and laugh lines to the face, fiddle with size, fullness, bulk, eye size, eye rotation, lid definition, bags, corners and crows feet, lip definition, wrinkles, corners, neck length, and moles, scars and piercings on the nose, cheeks, brow and chin. And that's only the ones we could be bothered to scribble down. You can then toy about with the distribution of weight around the body and venture into the Pro Shop to buy shirts, trousers, shoes, clubs - even swing types.

Or, like us, you can whack the "randomisation" button and run a mile. We feel sure, as EA Sports clearly does, that somebody out there will be excited about the Game Face II features, but that somebody doesn't work here. Fortunately, Tiger's 2005 outing has another customisation suite that we do care about, and EA calls it Tiger Proofing. Tiger Proofing, since you ask, does for existing courses what Game Face does for existing faces - it slaps them about a bit, colours things differently and allows you to tweak everything you could reasonably desire, whether it's the upkeep of greens, fairways and bunkers, the size of them, the weather conditions, the tee positioning, or even the design of the fairways. We quite like the purple stripes, for some reason. We also like the idea of designing our own logos and custom images for fairways and flags, if only for the comedy value of being able to turn to a mate and make obscene jokes about which badly drawn half-naked celebrity he's just clubbed his ball onto, and where. (And because we're sad.)

Equally interesting from a bored-man-on-a-tired-weeknight perspective is the promise of a 'Dream 18' option that lets you create your own 18-hole golf course. We're also told that there's some sort of clever 'prestige' calculation that measures the quality of your design against observations various golfers have made over the years, and then has one or two of them pop up to challenge you to a game depending on the result. Golfing 'Legends' will also play a part in your general single-player game, with the likes of Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Alan Partridge's favourite Seve Ballesteros posing challenges and eventually taking you on. Unfortunately we can't tell you how they play yet, as EA is still working on the AI - and we reckon what we're seeing is just lifted from last year's outing, judging by the way Arnold Palmer occasionally plays the same badly aimed shot into the same cruelly placed rocks 10 times before conceding. But we should know soon enough.

The AI isn't the only thing returning in our current build either. The graphics engine, while still impressively well animated and easy on the eye, looks decidedly similar, and we fancy that changes here will be largely limited to cosmetic ones - with interface tweaks, new swing animations and new character models amongst the more obvious.

What you can actually do on the tees, fairways and greens of the game's various courses hasn't changed a great deal either. The controls, already fairly well refined, receive only modest updates. Still we club the ball with the analogue stick, adding spin and a pre-shot power boost with various shoulder buttons, and manipulating the camera, shot length and choice of club with D-pad and face buttons. And, although it's initially a little complicated, it does become fairly intuitive fairly quickly. The latest addition to the Tiger repertoire, 'ball in stance', slots in without much trouble - while holding L2, you can use the analogue stick to pick one of three positions for your feet, allowing you to come down on the ball, hit it normally, or hit it more on the up, which changes the way it behaves in flight.

Another change that affects goings-on out on the Links is the Tour Difficulty feature, which allows you to vary the challenge by removing caddy tips for putting, amongst other things; while 'Tiger Vision' makes things a little easier, giving you the chance to see exactly where you need to aim thanks to a little red spot that pops up for 15 seconds or so. The latter can only be used a few times per round, thankfully, and we're not sure we like it yet, but it will be interesting to see how it impacts multiplayer games.

But of course, for all the tweaks, quirks and new features that EA Sports is hoping will attract new customers, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 wouldn't be much of a draw for existing owners if it didn't feature a few new courses. The line-up in our build consisted of Pebble Beach, Harbour Town, Sherwood CC, Colonial CC, Fancourt Links, Turnberry, Edgewood, St Andrews, TPC at Sawgrass, Troon North Monument, Coeur d'Alene, Greek Isles, Paradise Cove and Emerald Dragon, and there are definitely a few there that proved very tricky - and we're looking forward to spending more time with them, and indeed at different times of day, since we can do that now too.

Paradise Cove sticks out in our minds as a particular highlight - it's set in a series of cove locations, with glossy fairways and greens split into little islands by the ocean and oceans of sand. In effect, most holes are just one large water hazard or bunker with spots of green to aim for, and avoiding a few Bogeys here is no mean feat.

Greek Isles was another one that proved popular early on - its mixture of rolling hills and huge drop-offs reminiscent of the canyon course from earlier versions of the game. Its use of rocky precipices layered like giant steps, too, was often fiendish enough to force us into playing a shot backwards to avoid bouncing off into the ocean, or worse right back to the point we fired our shot from in the first place; and its fondness for sloping fairways and huge bunkers surrounded by idyllic scenery was more than a little alluring. We still have no idea how we managed to bounce one shot off the roof of a boat onto an island green at one point, although we were disappointed not to win a trophy ball for it. Perhaps if it had gone in.

Total Teeing

No matter. What's clear, after a few hours of play, is that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 is a fairly typical annual EA Sports update, bedecked with a few new features that may lure new parties to the franchise, but unchanged - and occasionally refined - where it really matters. And that works just fine for us in this case. If the course design remains intricate and challenging, the Dream 18 design tool proves simple and effective enough to really add to the longevity, the team sharpens up last year's AI, and the online play lives up to its promise - and there seems no reason that these things shouldn't happen - then this could leave the Links series, and Tiger's other opposition, buried deep in the rough with no place to go. They'd better watch out, really. Sorry, we mean: FORE!

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 is due out on PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC on September 24th.

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Tiger Woods has arrived at Valhalla Golf Club.

The PGA Championship shared footage Sunday on X, formerly Twitter, of Woods hitting practice shots at the Kentucky venue. Woods indicated after the Masters, where he made his 24th straight cut at Augusta National, that he planned to play the PGA Championship.

He is staying true to his word.

Woods is a past champion at Valhalla, having outdueled Bob May in a three-hole playoff at the 2000 PGA Championship. It was his third consecutive major title after winning that year’s U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links (by 15 shots) and The Open at St. Andrews (by eight shots).

The wily veteran May didn’t make things easy, matching Woods’ 18-under 270 that was five shots clear of third place, but Woods emerged victorious at 1-under in the playoff to May’s even-par total. Woods then won the 2001 Masters by two shots to complete the “Tiger Slam.”

Woods was 24 at the time of his Valhalla victory, at the height of his powers and amidst one of the most dominant stretches in professional golf’s history. He’s now 48, in a different stage of life, no longer expected to contend at major championships but still maintaining the belief that he can. He has repeatedly faced injuries and surgeries in recent years – the latest being ankle surgery last April that competitively sidelined him for nine months – but he finds ways to get back.

In his competitive return at The Genesis Invitational in February, he withdrew after 24 holes due to flu-like symptoms, but he made the cut at the Masters and completed 72 holes (although after opening in 73-72, he faded with weekend rounds of 82-77 to finish in 60th place.)

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Brooks Koepka won the 105th PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, for his third PGA title and fifth major in all.

He clinched the two-shot win with a final-round 67 for his third Wanamaker trophy.

He joins Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead with three PGA titles. Only three golfers have won the title more. Koepka also won the PGA in 2018 and 2019.

The 2023 PGA marks the third major he has won in New York, to go along with his 2019 PGA at Bethpage and his 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.

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S cottie Scheffler continued his torrid 2024 PGA Tour season with a win at the Masters. Now, he will look to build on his success by earning another major at the PGA Championship.

Scheffler enters the tournament heavily favored to take home the Wanamaker Trophy. He has four wins to his name thus far in 2024 and has seen his greatest weakness, his putter, grow stronger throughout the campaign.

Of course, that doesn't guarantee Scheffler will win his first PGA Championship. He is facing competition from a loaded field headlined by PGA Tour stars Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, and Ludvig Aberg and LIV Golf's finest, Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka.

Add in legends of the game like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and Valhalla Golf Club seems primed for an exciting battle at golf's second major of the season.

But who among these top golfers will take home the Wanamaker Trophy in 2024? The Sporting News breaks down the odds and best bets to win the PGA Championship in 2024.

PGA Championship odds 2024

Scottie Scheffler (+400) enters the PGA Championship favorited to win the event, according to odds from BetMGM Sportsbook . The World No. 1 golfer has been on fire over the past couple of months, winning four of his past five starts and finishing tied for second in his lone defeat. His victories include wins at the Masters and The Players' Championship, two of the most prestigious events on the PGA Tour.

Rory McIlroy (+900) is the only other golfer with better than 10-1 odds to win the event. McIlroy is coming off a win at the Wells Fargo Championship, his fourth at the event. Perhaps more importantly, he won the last PGA Championship held at Valhalla Golf Club in 2014.

Brooks Koepka (+1400) , the winner of the 2023 PGA Championship, leads a contingent of golfers with better than 20-1 odds to win the event. Former World No. 1 golfer  Jon Rahm (+1400) , budding star  Ludvig Aberg (+1400) , and second-place Wells Fargo finisher  Xander Schauffele (+1600)  join him as players primed to contend in Louisville.

Both  Tiger Woods (+15000)  and  Phil Mickelson (+20000)  are in the field, as well. Neither is considered likely to win the PGA Championship, but it's worth noting that Mickelson is just three years removed from becoming the PGA Tour's oldest-ever major winner at the event.

Below are the odds for the top golfers in this year's PGA Championship. Only competitors with odds of 100-1 or better odds to win the tournament are listed.

PGA Championship course breakdown: Valhalla Golf Club

The PGA Championship will be played at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. The event was last held at Valhalla in 2014 when Rory McIlroy (16 under) won the event by one stroke over Phil Mickelson (15 under).

The course was designed by 18-time major winner Jack Nicklaus. It will be a par-71 layout and play to a length of 7,609 yards  for the 2024 PGA Championship. That is 151 yards longer than the course played in 2014 and will make it one of the longest courses on the PGA Tour's 2024 season.

Naturally, the course's length will favor the biggest hitters on the course. That means players with positive marks in strokes gained off the tee (SG:OTT) and ball striking should profile well for this course.

Driving accuracy will be just as important for golfers, as there are numerous obstacles in the form of water hazards, bunkers, and thick rough around the course. It will be important to hit the fairways as frequently as possible to set up high-percentage second shots into each hole.

As such, strokes gained on approach (SG:APP) will also be a determining factor for the winner. Golfers who can get the ball near the hole and consistently log greens in regulation (GIR) will have a better chance to go low at this difficult course.

Finally, it certainly helps players to be high-quality scramblers and hot putters. Scrambling and strokes gained putting (SG:Putting) will tell bettors a lot about which golfers can handle the pressure of a difficult course like Valhalla.

Best bets to win PGA Championship

Anyone planning to bet on the PGA Championship has to consider putting Scottie Scheffler (+400)  on their card. The world's top golfer has been unstoppable in 2024, and he's in the midst of a dominant stretch during which he has won four of five events, including the Masters and The Players' Championship.

Scheffler has the best tee-to-green game on the PGA Tour, ranking top-two in SG:OTT, ball striking, and SG:APP. That mixture of power and accuracy should allow him to tame Valhalla. If his putter remains hot, he could add another major to his resume during an already superb 2024.

Brooks Koepka (+1400) is the other top option among the favorites. Koepka has great power and is in good form, fresh off a win at LIV Golf Singapore, and tends to step up his game in major events. He won the PGA Championship back-to-back in 2018 and 2019, so there's no reason to think he can't win it back-to-back seasons again.

PGA Championship value picks for top-10 finish, DFS lineups

Those looking for a more adventurous pick to win it all can consider Ludvig Aberg (+1400)  as a solid top-10 pick. His odds to win it all are the same as Koepka's and Jon Rahm's — which could scare some off him, especially in DFS lineups — but Aberg has finished top-25 or better in eight straight events and finished second at the Masters.

Aberg, 25, is on the verge of breaking out and sports all the tools needed to earn a major win soon. He is a top-10 ball striker and ranks top 20 in SG:OTT, SG:APP, and scrambling. His putter is merely above average, but if he gets hot, he may emerge as Scheffler's top challenger.

Wyndham Clark (+2500)  is another potential Scheffler challenger who has frequently been atop the leaderboard during the 2024 season. Clark is a top-10 ball striker and putter with the power needed to shorten Valhalla.

Clark's scrambling skills aren't as strong as some of the other top talents on tour, so that's why his odds sit at 25-1. That makes him a solid value pick, as he should be a top contender as long as he's hitting greens in regulation more often than not.

PGA Championship sleeper picks

Sam Burns (+6600)  has the makings of a quality sleeper option. The 27-year-old started the season strong with four top-10 finishes in his first five events, but he fell off a bit after that. He finished 30th or worse in his next five starts with two missed cuts, disappointing those who thought he could be a solid Masters sleeper.

That said, Burns finished tied for 13th at the Wells Fargo Championship and looked a bit looser with his wife Carolina having already given birth to their first child, Bear. Perhaps with that milestone past — and Burns not having to worry about leaving a tournament at the drop of the hat, as he planned to do at the Masters if Carolina went into labor — the well-rounded golfer can better tap into his top-40 ball striking and solid tee-to-green game to contend at the PGA Championship.

More daring bettors could also consider  Akshay Bhatia (+10000)  as a mega-longshot. Bhatia has enjoyed a solid season and won the Valero Texas Open in a playoff over Denny McCarthy. He ranks top-10 in SG:APP and doesn't have any weaknesses in his game.

The only question is whether Bhatia can go low enough to knock off the likes of Scheffler, Koepka, Rahm, et. al., but at 100-1 odds, he's at least worth a flier.

PGA Championship winners by year

Brooks Koepka is the reigning winner of the PGA Championship. He shot 9-under par during the 2023 event to earn a two-shot win over Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler. The win marked Koepka's fifth major win — three of which have come at the PGA Championship — and the first major win by a golfer competing on the LIV Golf Tour.

Koepka has won three of the past six PGA Championships. Only Jack Nicklaus (five) and Tiger Woods (four) have more wins than Koepka since the tournament switched to stroke play in 1958.

Below is a full look at the history of PGA Championship winners since 1958.

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PGA CHAMPIONSHIP ’24: Capsules of 10 key players at Valhalla

FILE - From left are golfers Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Tiger Woods. The 106th PGA Championship is scheduled to be played at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., May 16-19. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - From left are golfers Ludvig Aberg, Bryson DeChambeau, Max Homa, Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy. The 106th PGA Championship is scheduled to be played at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., May 16-19. (AP Photo/File)

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A capsule look at 10 key players going into the PGA Championship, which starts May 16 at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Listed in predicted order of finish:

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER

Country: United States.

World ranking: 1.

Worldwide wins: 11.

Majors: Masters (2022, 2024).

Best PGA Championship finish: Runner-up at Oak Hill in 2023.

Backspin: Scheffler has won three of his last four starts, including his second Masters. The exception was a runner-up finish in Houston. A decent putting week means he’ll be in contention. A good putting week usually means an easy win. But he comes into the PGA Championship off a three-week break for the birth of his first child.

BROOKS KOEPKA

World ranking: 37.

Worldwide wins: 16.

Majors: PGA Championship (2018, 2019, 2023), U.S. Open (2017, 2018).

Best PGA Championship finish: Won at Bellerive in 2018, Bethpage Black in 2019 and Oak Hill in 2023.

Backspin: Koepka restored his reputation as “Big Game Brooks” last year by winning his fifth major in seven years. He wasn’t a factor in his three majors since winning at Oak Hill. But he won a LIV Golf event in Singapore that was sure to boost his confidence.

RORY MCILROY

Country: Northern Ireland.

World ranking: 2.

Worldwide wins: 35.

Majors: PGA Championship (2012, 2014), U.S. Open (2011), British Open (2014).

Best PGA Championship finish: Won at Kiawah Island in 2012 and Valhalla in 2014.

Backspin: McIlroy can’t come to a major without being reminded of what he hasn’t done. His PGA Championship title at Valhalla in 2014 was the last time he won a major. The Masters was another letdown for him. At least he comes to Valhalla having won the team event in New Orleans with Shane Lowry.

LUDVIG ABERG

Country: Sweden.

World ranking: 6.

Worldwide wins: 2.

Majors: None.

Best PGA Championship finish: Making his PGA Championship debut.

Backspin: Aberg is starting to be anointed as the biggest threat to Scottie Scheffler and this is only his second major appearance. He was runner-up to Scheffler in his major debut at the Masters. He was in the mix the next week. Rough-framed fairways would seem to suit him with his length and accuracy off the tee.

JORDAN SPIETH

World ranking: 21.

Majors: Masters (2015), U.S. Open (2015), British Open (2017).

Best PGA Championship finish: Runner-up at Whistling Straits in 2015.

Backspin: This will be Spieth’s eighth attempt at trying to complete the career Grand Slam and join the most exclusive group in golf. The good news for Spieth is expectations have rarely been this low. He is getting next to nothing out of his game. He has missed the cut in four of his last five tournaments that had a 36-hole cut, including the Masters.

Country: Spain.

World ranking: 5.

Worldwide wins: 20.

Majors: Masters (2023), U.S. Open (2021).

Best PGA Championship finish: Tied for fourth at Bellerive in 2018.

Backspin: Rahm has gone 13 months without winning, and he is 0-for-7 on LIV Golf since he defected in December to the Saudi-funded league. He was lucky to make the cut at the Masters. But an angry Rahm can also be a dangerous one in the majors.

World ranking: 10.

Worldwide wins: 7.

Best PGA Championship finish: Tied for 13th at Southern Hills in 2022.

Backspin: The last piece of the puzzle for Homa is the majors and he showed up in a big way at the Masters. He challenged all the way until a bad break on the par-3 12th at Augusta National but came away believing his game can stack up to the biggest tests.

JUSTIN THOMAS

World ranking: 29.

Worldwide wins: 15.

Majors: PGA Championship (2017, 2022).

Best PGA Championship finish: Won at Quail Hollow in 2017 and Southern Hills in 2022.

Backspin: This is a rare occasion where a player has a hometown major. Thomas has gone winless since his second PGA Championship title two years ago, though his game is never as far off as it looks. The test will be not to try too hard before a home crowd. This will be his third tournament with new caddie Matt Minister.

BRYSON DECHAMBEAU

World ranking: 117.

Majors: U.S Open (2020).

Best PGA Championship finish: Tied for fourth at Harding Park in 2020 and at Oak Hill in 2023.

Backspin: DeChambeau has played well enough to win twice on LIV Golf, but more telling are the majors. He opened with a 66 at the PGA Championship last year and was on the fringe of contention in the final round. He shared the 36-hole lead at the Masters last month until a slow slide. Cleaning up a few mistakes could go a long way.

TIGER WOODS

World ranking: 801.

Worldwide wins: 93.

Majors: Masters (1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019), PGA Championship (1999, 2000, 2006, 2007), U.S Open (2000, 2002, 2008), British Open (2000, 2005, 2006).

Best PGA Championship finish: Won at Medinah (1999, 2006), Valhalla (2000) and Southern Hills (2007).

Backspin: Woods won at Valhalla in 2000 when he was 24 and healthy. He has not played since making the cut and then finishing in last place at the Masters, and the PGA Championship will be only his third tournament this year. A fifth PGA title would tie the record held by Jack Nicklaus and Walter Hagen.

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Here Are All 16 LIV Golfers in the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club

John schwarb | may 13, 2024.

Golf’s second major of 2024 is here, and fans can rejoice in how PGA Tour-LIV Golf squabbles are put aside with players from both sides settling matters on the course.

And the PGA of America has helped LIV Golf bring a sizable contingent to Valhalla Golf Club.

A bit more than 10% of the field—16 of 156 players—is from the Saudi-backed league, up from nine players a year ago at the PGA won by LIV’s Brooks Koepka. Koepka and eight other players were exempt into the field based on various criteria, and seven accepted special invitations. The PGA of America has significant leeway to invite whoever it wants , and it saw fit to invite perhaps a larger number of LIV players than many expected.

Thirteen players from LIV Golf were in the field at last month’s Masters.

Here are all 16 in order of Official World Golf Ranking, with how they qualified, recent history and outlook.

OWGR: 5th How qualified: Won 2023 Masters Recent history: Second in 2024 LIV points standings, T45 at Masters Skinny: LIV’s seismic offseason signing hasn’t won yet but hasn’t played poorly either with four top-5 finishes and just one outside the top 10. Had a disappointing Masters defense but will have less pressure this week.

Tyrrell Hatton

OWGR: 18th How qualified: T15 in 2023 PGA Championship Recent history: T5 LIV Golf Singapore, T9 at Masters Skinny: Fiery Englishman comes in off his best LIV finish. On a streak of nine consecutive made cuts in majors with five top-20 finishes.

Brooks Koepka

OWGR: 39th How qualified: Won 2018, 2019, 2023 PGA Championship Recent history: Won LIV Golf Singapore, T45 at Masters Skinny: The defending champion has his swagger back after winning two weeks ago and lives for majors . A third PGA would put him in rarefied air; only Tiger Woods has won as many in the last four decades.

Cameron Smith

OWGR: 61st How qualified: Won 2022 British Open Recent history: Second at LIV Golf Singapore, T6 at Masters Skinny: Indifferent LIV season got a boost in Singapore, the short-game ace has four top-9 finishes in last six majors starting with the 2022 win at St. Andrews.

Adrian Meronk

OWGR: 65th How qualified: Special exemption Recent history: T13 LIV Golf Singapore, missed cut at the Masters Skinny: The PGA traditionally invites all players inside the top 100 in the world, and Meronk remains there after three DP World Tour wins in the 2023 season. Was T40 in first PGA appearance last year. 

Lucas Herbert

OWGR: 90th How qualified: Special exemption Recent history: T29 LIV Golf Singapore Skinny: The Aussie did not qualify for the Masters and only has one top-15 finish all year on LIV. Was T13 at the 2022 PGA. 

Joaquin Niemann

OWGR: 91st How qualified: Special exemption Recent history: T8 LIV Golf Singapore, two-time winner earlier in year, T22 Masters Skinny: The Chilean got a special invite from the Masters for globetrotting that included an Australian Open win and played well off it. Now will make 14th consecutive major start, a streak that could be harder to maintain if he falls outside the top 100 in the world.

Patrick Reed

OWGR: 93rd How qualified: Special exemption Recent history: T15 LIV Golf Singapore, T12 Masters Skinny: The 2018 Masters champ remains inside the top 100 after a decent Masters but his LIV season hasn’t been notable as he’s 30th in season points.

OWGR: 109th How qualified: Special exemption Recent history: T27 LIV Golf Singapore Skinny: The 22-year-old Spaniard won twice in the offseason on the Asian Tour, which is looked favorably upon. His only other major start is a T39 in the 2023 U.S. Open.

Bryson DeChambeau

OWGR: 124th How qualified: Won 2020 U.S. Open Recent history: T28 LIV Golf Singapore, T6 Masters Skinny: Had a three-event stretch of top-7 finishes in LIV before a pair of T28 efforts, led after 36 holes at Augusta before fading on weekend. T4 at last year’s PGA.

Dean Burmester

OWGR: 133rd How qualified: Special exemption Recent history: T17 LIV Golf Singapore, won LIV Golf Miami Skinny: The Zimbabwean is third in LIV points and won back-to-back late last year on the DP World Tour, perhaps all of that factored into being allowed to make his fourth straight PGA Championship start.

Phil Mickelson

OWGR: 160th How qualified: Won 2005, 2021 PGA Championship Recent history: T22 LIV Golf Singapore, T43 Masters Skinny: The 53-year-old hasn’t shown much form this season, 34th in LIV points with one top-10 finish. 

Andy Ogletree

OWGR: 220th How qualified: Top 3, International Federation OWGR list Recent history: T45 LIV Golf Singapore Skinny: The 26-year-old Georgia Tech grad had his best LIV Golf finish two events ago, a T5 in Adelaide, and now makes his first major start since 2020.

Dustin Johnson

OWGR: 392nd How qualified: Won 2020 Masters Recent history: T7 LIV Golf Singapore, missed cut at the Masters Skinny: The 2022 LIV Golf season champion won his third career LIV event in February in Las Vegas then didn’t have another top-10 until two weeks ago at Singapore. Has five top-10s in the PGA, the last being T2 in 2020.

Talor Gooch

OWGR: 668th How qualified: Special exemption Recent history: T4 LIV Golf Singapore Skinny: The most polarizing LIV golfer in the field said in February that a potential Rory McIlroy Grand Slam would have an asterisk for not being against all the game’s best. This could be Gooch’s only major start of the year as he wasn’t invited to the Masters and said he won’t qualify for the Opens.

Martin Kaymer

OWGR: 4,338th How qualified: Won 2010 PGA Championship Recent history: T20 LIV Golf Singapore Skinny: The 39-year-old German is set at the PGA thanks to his win at Whistling Straits but his last made cut was 2018. He’s 42nd in LIV points with a best finish of T14.

JOHN SCHWARB

John Schwarb is the Senior Editor of SI Golf. He has covered golf for the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times), PGATour.com and Visit Florida; and has also written for ESPN.com, The Golfers Journal and several magazines. He lives in Indianapolis and graduated from Indiana University.