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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
Hey Big, can you please tell me more about career play. Do you level up skills? Do you start amateur and move your way up? How many different courses do you play?
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You start on the Korn-Ferry Tour (guess that is the new name for the Nike Tour - I had to look up what Korn-Ferry even was). That is 6 tournaments in the schedule. There are several ways to qualify for the PGA Tour (Top 25 in Points for the year or 3 wins on the lower tour). You do not progress your skills or attributes but you can unlock and purchase new equipment that has different attributes. There is no equipment that is "cheaty" in nature - if there is added power with a club there is an loss of accuracy, forgiveness, or some attribute to offset it. But you can buy clubs to suit your style. I will tell you that the progression of your golfer will not be with attributes in an RPG kind of way but rather you actually developing better skills with the sticks, rhythm of your swing, reading greens better, making smart decisions with course management, etc.
Once you are on the PGA Tour you have 33 events per season. A few are major like championships where there is an alternate event for the players who didn't qualify. This uses a mixture of real courses included with the game and fictional official courses that have been created by the developer. There are no repeats of courses in a season that I can tell. You can choose to play 1-4 rounds per tourney in the settings.
The other neat new thing in career mode is the real players included. Some have 3D models (there are only a handful) and will show up in highlights between holes during your round. This gives it a little more immersion than the older games had.
Hope that helps explain it some. Could the career mode be more robust in time with future versions? I am sure it could but I think it has enough to hold my interest.