• Battle your friends in 15 fun and challenging mini-games that keep the competition fierce, long after you have finished your round
• Tiger Woods' real life coach Hank Haney will guide you through your career right from the start and help you improve your confidence
• Get the most out of every club with the Club Tuner, an all-new swing-control feature that allows you to calibrate your clubs to fit your personal tendencies and preferences
• Coach Haney will be constantly watching your performance and assessing areas for improvement
• Ball trail visuals indicate your competitors' shots, allowing you to swing whenever you're ready

Whether you're a seasoned veteran or hitting the links for the first time, now everybody swings on an even playing field, in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. Your career begins under the watchful eye of Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' real-life coach, who takes you under his wing, helps you tune your clubs, and provides training drills to help improve your game. With experience under your belt and confidence as your ally, take aim at family, friends, and rivals in fun and challenging game modes, including the new Golf Party mini-game mode. With improved swing mechanics, an all-new controller system, and tutelage from one of the game's best coaches, play your way to the top of the leader board with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. An all-new controller system allows golfers of all skill levels to play on an even playing field, removing the guesswork as the game shows you exactly where your ball will travel before every shot.

Tee off with Tiger for the '09 season

The pros have their own coaches, now you do too in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or hitting the links for the first time, Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' real-life coach, takes you under his wing, assesses your skills, and provides feedback after every round. With experience under your belt and confidence as your ally, take on all-new challenges in EA SPORTS GamerNet or new Online Simultaneous Play, where four live golfers can play a round in no time. With the new Club Tuner, an all-new Dynamic Skills feature, and tutelage from one of the game's best coaches, play your way to the top of the leaderboards with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09.

Key Features All-New Performance Coach-Tiger Woods' real-life coach, Hank Haney, guides you through your career by assessing your performance and providing tips and drills to increase your skills. Maximize Your Swing-Get the most out of every club with the Club Tuner, an all-new swing-control feature that allows you to calibrate your clubs to fit your personal tendencies and preferences. Stay Atop Your Game-Adding Skill Points to your abilities is only half the battle as all-new Dynamic Skills shift after every round, emphasizing consistency as much as improvement. Enhanced EA SPORTS GamerNet-All-new Instant Challenges-long drives, approach shots, and putting contests-appear throughout your round, adding excitement to the competition. All-New Online Simultaneous Play-Compete in a live four person round in the time it takes to play a single-player round. Ball trail visuals indicate your competitors' shots, allowing you to swing whenever you're ready. New Courses and Golfers-Test your skills on new courses, including Gary Player Country Club in South Africa, Wentworth Country Club in England, and more, while international stars Se Ri Pak, Darren Clarke, and others join the competition.

Instant Gamernet challenges View larger image Visualize the hole...not the hazard View larger image Simultaneous multiplayer helps speed up the round View larger image

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2009 is a great golf experience, if you do not own a next- gen version. 2009 has better graphics, and is a fun all-around game. I think the best feature is online play and your "best shot" clip saving system.

My family and I have a lot of fun with TW09. There are a few new features, but nothing that you have to have if you already have TW08. The putting seems to change from year to year, and I really like this year's style. But, I am disappointed that TW still hasn't come out with a multi-player tournament season. Having a handful of friends compete for the Cup in a season long tourney sounds like a natural extension to me.

Simply put, I like it. The graphics are stunning at 1080p. It loads and saves fast, (much faster than the Xbox 360), and is generally user friendly. The Photo GameFace can be a bit tricky to get it to look right, but it can be done. Coupled with the EA daily challenges, you're sure to have an entertaining round.

This game isn't perfect. I have almost played every golf game ever developed, since "Links" (Some of you old timers will know what that is.)
This game is very good. Even though my dude doesn't seem to look like me. (They allow you to add your own face to avitar.) Good mechanics, good graphics, (Of course I play on Playstation Three and have a 50 inch HD TV so I am spoiled. I like the role playing aspect of it and the fact that you can't save your game untill you complete the round. Otherwise of course one could play every hole till the got a birdie and then save and go on to the next hole.(Make sure you allow enough time to finish else you have to replay the whole 18 holes.) I don't think you can go wrong buying this version.
the Alaska Dude

this is the first Tiger game i've liked & kept since the 05 version. it's easy to play & looks really beautiful on the flat screen. the only issue's i have are:

1) you can only play up to 5 years in a career, there were 10 year careers on 05. you're supposed to increase over the years not decline.
2) you can't use multiple profiles in a PGA Tournament
3) the payouts are low. they were low on Tiger 05 but at least you still made six figures for winning. on 09 after winning my first event i only made $15,000. that's hardly enough to buy anything.
4) no winning celebrations. why can't they put a trophy presentation into the game, i mean it's bad enough you can't play Agusta National & put on the green jacket but at least they should put in trophy presentations when you win. this game's been around for almost a decade now & it's unexcusable that these things are not in it. they (EA Sports) need to put forth the same effort they put towards Madden & NCAA Football for Tiger. golf is a very popular game and alot of folks purchase this every year.