Game Modes

• Many of the game modes that you are used to in a Tiger Woods game are back in this years version, but now they are all lumped into the “Career Mode”.
• Play Now – Basically a practice mode, you get immediate thrown onto a course where you can play as Tiger Woods.
• Game Modes – This option allows you to play a casual round of golf against the CPU or up to three friends using one of the many different scoring methods.
• You can use your created character or any of the unlocked pros.
• The types of matches you can play are:

• Game Face- Not really a mode, but a character creation tool that you can use to put a likeness of whoever you want into the game.
• As always, Tiger leads the way with one of the most robust character creation tools that you can find.
• You will automatically have to do this when you start a career.
• My Career – The main mode in the game, your career will have you create a character and then progress him or her through years of tournaments and challenges.
• Some fans won’t like the new “Become a pro” feature.
• This version forces you to play challenges and mini games before you can become a pro and start to enter tournaments.
• Beating challenges earns you money, experience and unlocks new challenges, courses and pro golfers that you can use in the “Play Now” mode.
• Eventually you will unlock “Q-School”.
• “Q-School” is just an amateur tournament where you must finish in the top five to become a pro.
• Once you are a pro, you will unlock the season menu which will showcase different tournaments every week of the year.
• At this point you will have the option in playing in tournaments or any of the unlocked challenges.
• Each of the six courses included in the game have a number of challenges associated with them.
• Some challenges involve you taking on a computer controlled character or just practicing a certain skill.

• Playing a challenge or a tournament will most likely earn your character some money and experience.
• Experience is earned by using and performing well with certain shots.
• For example: hitting a long drive down the center of the fairway will earn you accuracy and power experience.
• The skills that you need to improve are the same as they have been for a while in a Tiger game.

• As you improve a skill it will cost more an more earned experience to buy the next level.
• The money in this years version though seems useless.
• You can buy new equipment and accessories.
• Some of these pieces of equipment will come with skill bonuses.
• However, you can remove these skill bonuses and add them to other pieces of equipment you already have.
• Any bonus applied to your character improves your character’s overall play not just that piece of equipment’s performance.
• You can also earn skill bonuses by mastering the different skill challenges.
• I found that I had most all of the skill bonuses that I could use by the time I became a pro.
• Each skill has a limit of 4 bonus slots.
• Overall the types of game modes really don’t offer anything new to the series.
• The inclusion of only six courses and forcing players to go through several skill challenges before getting to the tournaments will probably annoy most Tiger veterans.
• Gone also is the special events calendar that used to be tied to your systems date/time memory.