Product Description

Tiger Woods' coach is now your coach! In Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2009, Hank Haney will be there from the start to assess your skills, help you tune your clubs and give you feedback after every round as you attempt to climb the leaderboards and win the FedExCup. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 is a highly adaptable game that allows both the rookie and the seasoned veteran the ability to have a personalised and customised day on the links. This year's game also features enhancements to the online experience with a highly integrated EA Sports GamerNet experience as well as an all-new online engine powering Simultaneous Play.

• Performance Coach: The Tour Pros have their own coaches and now you do too. Tiger Woods real-life coach Hank Haney will guide you through your career right from the start and help you improve your skills as you play each of your rounds.
• Tune Your Clubs to Maximise Your Swing: With the all new Club Tuner you'll be able to tune your individual wedges, irons, woods and driver to customise your bag and get the most out of every club. But strategy will come into play as you must weigh the risks of club performance versus ease of use. So tune wisely!
• Dynamic Skills: All-new Dynamic Skills eliminates the chore of building your character up from scratch with skills you set at the beginning of your career. Based up on your performance after each round, your skills will go up and down.
• Enhanced EA Sports GamerNet: Personalise your experience on EA Sports GamerNet like never before. With the all new Instant Challenges you can earn points in any game mode and climb the Daily GamerNet leaderboards.
• New Online Mode: In addition, to turn based play an all-new four-player Online Simultaneous Play will allow you to compete in a four person round in the same time it takes to play single-player. No more waiting for your buddies to hit their golf shot. You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1066 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-08-29
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

Customer Reviews

Great game but still could be better!
Once again EA have delivered a very realistic yet fun golf sim game with new added features, however, I can't help but feel that once again it comes up short of what it could be.

I played (and reviews) TW08 when I bought that and befoe I played this I rented and tried...and decided not to buy on that basis.

The game itself is very good and fans of the franchise will still be able to pick up and play and newcomers will have coaching in the game to get them up to speed. The customisation of clubs looks nice and several old features are there again for us to enjoy.

However, while the game is good, it isn't anything new or different. Sure there is a little bit of window dressing to justify another version that is the must have latest and greatest, but at it's heart it is not really any different than the last 2 or 3 versions.

My biggest problem though, is the graphics and choice of courses. Call me selfish but I expect to have something on my wizz-bang machine capable of running the deathstar that is a little bit different and extra than what I could have had on my PS2 before I upgraded. I have been left with a hollow feeling that this is simply the same game ported over to a different platform witht he pologons turned up slightly.

There is no feeling of 'WOW - this is great', the graphics still look OK don't get me wrong but not the wonder of HD that I thought I would be getting with my PS3. And no extra courses, golfers or anything different despite having all that extra space to utilise on the Bluray disc?? I guess the next gen consoles are either going to have to make do with companies taking the easy option until the PS2 and original Xbox go so out of fashion that they aren't making the games for those any more before we truly get manufacturers making the most of the new technology.

Maybe next years will be better???

EA got it just right
Year after Year, EA release a TW game and each year us gamers have to settle for just a few new courses and maybe some new courses and also maybe 1 or 2 "gimmick" features. So what's different about Tiger Woods 09 that would make the golf veteran come back or make newcomers more interested than before? First of all, Tiger Woods Coach Hank Haney is put into the mix, At the start of the game, he'll assess your attributes based on your first few shots. Then after each and every round of golf, your skills go up or down depending on how well you do. This actually works really well, it forces you to play well all the time even if you are 10 shots ahead of the pack in PGA Tour Mode. Another new feature, is the Club Tuner, now this allows the golfer to tune their clubs to their own needs and what suits them the most. Seeing as you can now add probably up to 60 yards more to your drives with this new feature, you may think it makes the game easier than before, well not exactly. Each hole now provides a different challenge. On a reachable par 4, do you go for it and risk maybe being in the rough or the bunker, or do you play it safe and make sure you have a close approach? If you chose the first option, then doing this a number of times per round could severely decrease your stats.

So, Dynamic attributes is an absolutely ingenious feature and it works extremely well. Now finally, another great feature is the Online Simultaneous Play. Now, when playing online, this is optional in Stroke play. Whilst playing you still see everybody's shots and it's basically you against everybody else. It takes much less time than before. In 08, it took 40 minutes to play a 4 way stroke play and now it only takes 10 minutes. When you are not playing simultaneously or playing a team game, you still see other people take their shots but you can no longer see what club they're hitting, how much loft they're putting or even what power they're putting on. So this is much better than before, as it doesn't allow anybody to copy anybody's shots.

Overall, I give the game a 5/5, the graphics are much better than 08, the water looks sensational. I haven't really got that much to say wrong about 09 as it really is that good, which is something I normally don't say about EA. This year though, they got it just right.

On the prow again
Ok here we go again tigerWoods 09 is again trying to create the most realistic golf sim out their, i have to say i have not seen any better, but when you have the biggest name franchise its easy to stuff the competition. Ok lets start with whats new , you now have the advice of tigers real life coach hank henney, who is quite useful maybe to new comers of this game but old hands know what it takes to progress their golfer to full potential. New to the game is the way you can now customise your clubs, you can go for all out power but this gives you less control or you can set them so you hit the sweet spot evry time , i went for a power over precision set up myself, Graphically there is very little inprovement to 08 which is kind of disapointing as i wanted glorious HD to be pushed to the limit but its not,the commentators have also changed, no more D Faherty but Sam Torrance and kelly are ok,courses are pretty much a mix of fantasy and real live events, the tour is the best feature off line, but changes to online now mean you dont have to wait for others to play there shots you can simultaneously play so thats good, online is great by the way if you have an ethernet account, Tiger challenge is simple to complete and is the best way to get your stats up, anyhow overall i think the changes to learning and increasing stats is good, hank henney is tiresome after a while constantly saying the samething over and over, yes its still the best golf game but its really a disapointment in the way its not improved since 08, thats why i can only give it 4 stars.