PGA Tour
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Genre(s)	Sports
Developer(s)	Sterling Silver Software Polygon Games Hitmen Productions Unexpected Development NuFX Ceris Software Adrenalin Entertainment EA Redwood Shores Xantera Rainbow Studios Headgate Studios Stormfront Studios Rebellion Developments Backbone Emeryville Sensory Sweep Studios EA Canada Team Fusion EA Tiburon Exient Entertainment HB Studios
Publisher(s)	EA Sports
Platform(s)	MS-DOS,Sega Genesis,Amiga,Macintosh,SNES,Master System,Game Gear,PlayStation,Game Boy,3DO,Sega Saturn,Microsoft Windows,Game Boy Color,PlayStation 2,Game Boy Advance,Xbox,GameCube,Mac OS,N-Gage,Nintendo DS,PlayStation Portable,Mac OS X,Xbox 360,PlayStation 3,Wii,iOS,PlayStation 4,Xbox One,PlayStation 5,Xbox Series X and S
First release	PGA Tour Golf 1990
Latest release	EA Sports PGA Tour April 7, 2023

PGA Tour is a series ofgolfvideo games developed and published byElectronic Arts - and later theirEA Sports sub-label - since 1990. The series primarily features courses featured on the U.S.PGA Tour, and other notable courses (such as those that have hostedmajors).

In 1998, EA began publishing their golf games with the endorsement ofTiger Woods. Following theTiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf release, subsequent titles were namedTiger Woods PGA Tour and released yearly.

Although EA Sports developed most games in the series internally, some SKUs have come from outside developers including the first edition,Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf, which Adrenalin Entertainment developed in conjunction with EA for thePlayStation andTiger Woods PGA Tour 2001 for the PlayStation, which was developed byStormfront Studios.IOMO also produced versions of the game for mobile phones for the 2002, 2004, and 2005 editions.

In October 2013, EA ended its relationship with Woods, being replaced withRory McIlroy, thentop golfer in the world, who became the new title athlete of the franchise. The game,Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, was released in 2015.^[1][2]

The series was responsible for several innovations in the genre, such as the now standard three-click swing method. In 1995 a critic stated inGamePro that "The PGA series flies high above the rest for two reasons: You can completely control a shot, and you play on the best courses around."^[3] However, unlike other games in the EA Sports label, the series was often shadowed by other competitors such as theJack Nicklaus series,Links series,Microsoft Golf orThe Golf Pro.

PGA Tour has brought in almost $771 million during the time it was named for Tiger Woods from 1999 to 2013.^[4]

Starting in 1998,Tiger Woods was the star and face of the series.^[5] The deal with Woods was worth$6.2 to 7 million a year at the height of his 15 years atEA Sports.^[6][7]

Both parties had agreed to incorporate the Masters into a video game for several years, but Augusta National Golf Club agreed only when the presentation and playability of the course was perfect. It took EA Tiburon's 80-person development team three years of work from 2009 to 2011 to make Augusta National available in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12.^[8]

In January 2012, EA announced that there would be no more releases on the Wii, with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions would continue to receive new online and social features. They also said that the Xbox 360's Kinect and the PlayStation 3's PlayStation Move have both made "significant advances in motion gaming."^[9][10][11]

In February 2013, EA announced that there will be noWii U version ofTiger Woods PGA Tour.^[12][13][14]

According toKotaku,Electronic Arts reportedly planned to outsourceTiger Woods PGA Tour 15 and give the in-house team atEA Tiburon two years to makeTiger Woods PGA Tour 16 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (the title would see release asRory McIlroy PGA Tour). However, when CEOJohn Riccitiello resigned March 2013, this plan was dropped to save costs.^{[15][16][17][18]}

In October 2013, EA's partnership with Woods and a licensing agreement withAugusta National Golf Club reached an end.^[19][20] According to EA, the split is a mutual decision.^[21][22]

The agreement withHB Studios comes after a similar long-term licensing agreement between thePGA Tour andElectronic Arts came to an end. EA had dominated electronic golf games thanks to a partnership with 15-time major tournament winner Tiger Woods. From 1999 to 2013Tiger Woods PGA Tour was the top video golf game on the market. After EA and Woods ended their agreement in 2013, EA developed a similar game in 2015 in a partnership withRory McIlroy.Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, running on theFrostbite engine, did not fare nearly as well as the previous EA versions featuring Woods. The game was pulled from all digital storefronts in May 2018.^[23]

In September 2018, EA relinquished its agreement with thePGA Tour in what appears to be a move away from golf games.^[24] In August 2018,PGA Tour licensing director Matt Iofredo said the new partnership withHB Studios is part of the sport's on-going efforts to introduce golf to a wider audience.^[25]

On March 29, 2021, EA announced a new golf video game was in development. The game would use theFrostbite engine and was announced asEA Sports PGA Tour. The game takes advantage of next-generation technology.This will be through a new long-term agreement signed this year with the PGA TOUR.^[26]

EA announced on April 7, 2021, a day before the 2021 Masters, that the Masters and its home, Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, will be playable exclusively inEA Sports PGA Tour. It would be released under the nameEA Sports PGA Tour: Road to the Masters and along with the Masters event,EA Sports PGA Tour will feature the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open and the Open Championship, making it the only video game to feature all four major men's professional golf tournaments.^[27]

Facing pressure from 2K's recent releases, EA announced further innovations would be introduced inEA Sports PGA Tour, one of which was scanning each golf course via aerial means; this was demonstrated with theAugusta National course.^[27] On May 17, 2021, a delay was announced pushing the title's release date a year later to coincide with the 2022 Masters' Tournament,^[28] before removing its release date by November 2021.^[29]

On March 22, 2022, Electronic Arts announced the delay ofEA Sports PGA Tour by one year to spring 2023. EA did not give a reason for the delay, nor did they announce the game's platforms;^[30] on January 19, 2023, a gameplay trailer was released alongside a release date of March 24, 2023, releasing onPlayStation 5,Xbox Series X and Series S, andMicrosoft Windows. Further delays were announced on March 3, 2023, with the game releasing on the week of the Masters Tournament, with an early access release on Tuesday, April 4, and a worldwide launch on Friday, April 7, allowing the developers,EA Tiburon, to polish the game further before launch.^[31][32]

During development ofTiger Woods PGA Tour 10, in order to scan and faithfully reproduce the golf courses, the developers spent seven to ten days on each of the game's 16 courses and used a 3D laser scanner made byLeica. The developers took the equipment to each hole and placed it and did a 360-degree scan of the entire course to map the terrain of each hole with a high level of accuracy that allows the player to "play the hole and the course exactly as [they] would in real life."^[33][34]

The development ofTiger Woods PGA Tour 12 saw the usage of a new state-of-the-art laser scanning technology that took 10 days at Augusta National Golf Club to laser scan every hole in the game, allowing for significantly higher detail than in the previous titles.^[35][36]

The development ofEA Sports PGA Tour saw the usage of custom LiDAR helicopter flights over each of the game's courses, flying scans at lower altitudes and slower speeds to achieve a greater density of data points and a higher level of realism than scans from public sources. And they meticulously mapped the courses, using advanced technologies such as photogrammetry, drone technology and GPS for high accuracy.^[37][38]

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Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour was released forPlayStation 4 andXbox One on July 14, 2015, and is notable for being the first EA Sports game to run on theFrostbite engine. Following a hiatus after the release of the previous title, EA announced thatPGA Tour 14 was the last to featureTiger Woods as the title athlete, replacing him withRory McIlroy^[118]

EA Sports PGA Tour was released forMicrosoft Windows,PlayStation 5 andXbox Series X and Series S on April 7, 2023.

Developed and published by Electronic Arts for theAmiga,Sega Genesis, andAmiga CD32 in 1994, for theGame Boy in 1995, and for theSNES andMS-DOS in 1996. The SNES version supports the TeeV Golf club peripheral.

GamePro gave the Game Boy version a rave review, saying that it "delivers almost everything that made its 16-bit relative the best." They applauded the selection of courses, effective controls, strong realism, and the graphics, going so far as to state that when played on the Super Game Boy the game looks "almost as good as the Genesis version."^[3]

Developed byEA Sports and published by Electronic Arts for Windows PC in 1997.

The game received a score of 5.8 ("mediocre") fromGameSpot.^[119][120]

Developed byExient Entertainment and published byElectronic Arts under theEA Sports branding on April 23, 2009, foriOS. The game features commentary bySam Torrance andKelly Tilghman.^{[121][122][123][124]} The game offers five golfers:Tiger Woods,Vijay Singh,Retief Goosen,Annika Sörenstam, andNatalie Gulbis. For courses, it hasPebble Beach Golf Links,Old Course at St Andrews,TPC Sawgrass,The K Club,Doral Golf Resort & Spa,Fancourt Links, andTPC Boston.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online was an online streaming version of theTiger Woods franchise.

Players took part in single player modes or in tournaments. Tournaments were split into weekly and daily competitions, sometimes based on events then happening in the PGA Tour. For example, during theUS Open, the courses that have had the US Open had a discount on points.

Players chose between monthly and yearly subscriptions with unlimited access, or chose to pay for individual rounds through microtransactions.^[125] Players who didn't subscribe were still allowed to compete, although they were usually allowed to play only one or two rounds each day.

On September 6, 2011, it became integrated with theTiger Woods PGA Tour 12 PC version. EA Sports retiredTiger Woods PGA Tour Online on July 6, 2013.

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