EA Sports PGA Tour: How is your Career Mode going?

[tcnumba10]

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I really am loving this game now. Every good or bad shot is totally reliant on my judgment of setting up each shot. Then my execution of the shot using 3 click. If it's a poor shot I do get frustrated, but knowing that it's completely on me makes it the enjoyable type of frustration with a video game. I know the next round I need to play the approach shot or that drive off tee differently.

It just makes for a very immersive game now. One round I birdie a hole easily. The next I am struggling for a par save, or I flat out bogey the hole. Pin location changing each round plays a part as well which just makes playing all 18 a great way to play.

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Same here! When I first got the game it felt incredible but then it got too easy and stale as soon as I levelled up my golfer with all the skill points too much. I was constantly winning tournaments by double digits and every shot was near perfect. Even hitting the ball from the sand or rough had no consequences.

But now that I’ve restricted my skill points and capped my golfer, that same “new” feeling is back again. The game feels more realistic and every miss shot is totally on me. I’m actually not able to hit the ball on every fairway now because of my own timing (mistakes).

I truly feel now that I’m myself, a pedestrian playing the courses against Pros instead of being a superhuman golfer who wipes out the competition.

[tcnumba10]

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That's just ridiculous that EA would make you so OP from the start lol. The game is a full arcade golf game when level 50 and all gold shot types. It's pretty insane really to think about. They really have no business promoting this game as simulation golf.

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It’s funny you say that because I posted something similar on Reddit about limiting your skill points so that your golfer doesn’t become too OP and I received a ton of black lash saying if we want to be scoring -70 we should! Goes to show that the majority of the crowd who plays expects this to be an arcade golf game…

[DarthRambo]

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It’s funny you say that because I posted something similar on Reddit about limiting your skill points so that your golfer doesn’t become too OP and I received a ton of black lash saying if we want to be scoring -70 we should! Goes to show that the majority of the crowd who plays expects this to be an arcade golf game…

Luckily the game allows us to limit ourselves or be as OP as we want to be. The attributes I kinda look at as sliders for the game in a way lol. But I can't hate on those players who want to shoot -70 so long as I am able to create a balanced character somehow. I remember over 10 years ago with TW golf, loving to use the arcade power spin and changing ball direction by spamming the x button mid flight lol. They actually have that option still which is wild for 2023.

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[tcnumba10]

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Luckily the game allows us to limit ourselves or be as OP as we want to be. The attributes I kinda look at as sliders for the game in a way lol. But I can't hate on those players who want to shoot -70 so long as I am able to create a balanced character somehow. I remember loving to use the arcade power spin and changing ball direction by spamming the x button mid flight lol. They actually have that option still which is wild for 2023.

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I agree, that the skill points act like gameplay sliders like in Madden, NHL, 2K. I just find it funny that the majority on the Reddit community seems to play PGA Tour more of an arcade style than Sim and would criticize anyone otherwise. Hope EA don’t value the arcade players opinion over the Sim players.

I wonder if this is the reason that bunker shots and shots from the rough doesn’t make a difference if you have a skill point in recover… so that the Arcade players don’t get too frustrated in there lol

[woody2goody]

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My last tournament before the US Open was at Liberty, shot 69, then 64 and 63 to lead by seven shots going into the final round.

BUT...

After a decent front 9 of 1 under in the final round, I was still 6 shots ahead of Tony Finau, but the back nine was diabolical.

Hit a stinger into the water one one hole, three putted another and double bogeyed one of the par 5s.

Went into the last three holes even with Finau at -16. Birdied the 16th to retake the lead, followed by a sloppy par at the 17th.

Drive down the left hand side of the fairway on the 18th, making sure to be as far away from the water as possible. Thought it would hit a high fade into the green to try to get it to stop and overshot the green completely.

Coupled with a pretty shoddy pitch shot, it left me needing to drain an 11 footer for the tournament, and it just crept in for my 4th win of the season and the first since I increased the difficulty just before the Masters.

I don't think I've ever played Brookline before so this US Open is going to be fun!

[DarthRambo]

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Well I finished tied for 3rd in the first KFT event. Rounds of 70, 68, 69, and 70. I started the final round with two birdies and was one shot back of the lead. Only to then bogey holes three and four lol.

A couple more bogeys on the back 9 along with three birdies and I ended the day -2. Finished with score of -11. Second place Duane Rogers with -12, and Sammy Young wins the Wisconsin Open with a score of 15 under. Melvin Jimenez shoots a 66 in the final round to finish -11 with me. But too little too late for him.

Next is the Desert Championship at Wolf Creek, which I hear is a nightmare course so oh joy!


I did power down my power skill to 2. Ran out of reward points to go any lower. But I see already with average drive distance I'm going to be way ahead of everyone. I'm good with leading, but try to get it to be no more than 10 yards average lead if I can.

[DarthRambo]

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Wolf Creek is the dumbest course ever. Not super difficult, but just the dumbest holes with severe elevation every single shot. It's not fun to play. Going to withdraw from that and quick play any time I have to play there. Looks like a created course. Can't believe that's real lol.

Down to just 9th in KFT rankings after withdrawing. Oh well. I don't need the xp so don't even care. I'd take a week to play 4 rounds there cause it's just that bad.

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[DarthRambo]

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Since I found a balance for difficulty I felt like I could go back to quick play. I'll do that unless a Major or playoffs. What's great is your character's overall doesn't seem to effect or matter what they do in simulated holes.

So we finished week 3 of the KFT. A par 71. We shot rounds of 70, 68, 66, and 72. I entered round 4 ready to play the final 5 holes at -8. Only one shot back of the co-leaders. Unfortunately I couldn't clutch up and bogeyed 15. I birdied 18 though at least and we finished 4th. We are still 9th in the KFT rankings nearly 300 points behind. Easily qualified for the playoffs where I'll play all 18 again.

Up next is the Florida Open at TPC Sawgrass which will be fun!

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[UpTheIrons]

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Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, but this is only happening to me in career mode. In between holes I get “swirling blue ring” of the auto save function and it takes a long time to resolve. My internet connection is strong, Xbox Live and EA servers appear to be okay. Is this a situation where I should uninstall and reinstall the game? It takes a solid 3 minutes for the rings to disappear and autosave to finish on each hole. Frustrating.

Otherwise, really enjoying the game.

[DarthRambo]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour: How is your Career Mode going?

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, but this is only happening to me in career mode. In between holes I get “swirling blue ring” of the auto save function and it takes a long time to resolve. My internet connection is strong, Xbox Live and EA servers appear to be okay. Is this a situation where I should uninstall and reinstall the game? It takes a solid 3 minutes for the rings to disappear and autosave to finish on each hole. Frustrating.



Otherwise, really enjoying the game.

I haven't experienced or heard of that happening before. Maybe try to delete the game data? But that will cause you to lose your saved career. Try deleting game and reinstalling first since that won't delete your progress.

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[tcnumba10]

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I’m having too much trouble with the performance of my golfer so I’ve decided to change my house rules so that I can apply skill points to my golfer obtaining silver instead of bronze but not gold traits. Hopefully this helps me get through Q school since I’ve been stuck and having to repeat it lol

Still keeping Power and both Recovery at 0

[DarthRambo]

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I’m having too much trouble with the performance of my golfer so I’ve decided to change my house rules so that I can apply skill points to my golfer obtaining silver instead of bronze but not gold traits. Hopefully this helps me get through Q school since I’ve been stuck and having to repeat it lol

Still keeping Power and both Recovery at 0

I have silver for the finesse and knock down shots. Approach accuracy and control do need to be fairly high still to be competitive lol. I have approach accuracy at 6 and control at 7 if that helps you.

I am with you now on power at 0. Absolutely no need to go further. We can use overswings to get more distance. Even at 0 I was still banging 300yd+ drives.

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[DarthRambo]

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Hey tcnumba, we should play a round online. Since we have even characters and both use 3 click it would be fun and a solid even match.

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[tcnumba10]

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I have silver for the finesse and knock down shots. Approach accuracy and control do need to be fairly high still to be competitive lol. I have approach accuracy at 6 and control at 7 if that helps you.

I am with you now on power at 0. Absolutely no need to go further. We can use overswings to get more distance. Even at 0 I was still banging 300yd+ drives.

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Yup especially for 3-Click, if I need extra juice I just click into the red to over swing but even if I’m not consistently doing that, I’m still the leader in driving yards on the stats board.

I will increase Accuracy and Control since I’m hitting less than 60% on drives to the fairway lol and it’s really hinder my scoring since my ball often goes into the sand or rough.

With Recovery at 0, I’ll have to shoot my way back to the fairway first before shooting again and try to get onto the green. Essentially 2 shots are used if I’m in the sand or rough which is challenging and great! Sand and rough means something now unlike before which was treated as a normal shot.

Can’t emphasize that this was a great find by you with Recovery at 0. It makes it 100% more realistic when you’re not on the fairway or green.

[tcnumba10]

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Hey tcnumba, we should play a round online. Since we have even characters and both use 3 click it would be fun and a solid even match.

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Believe it or not I don’t have PSN lol I’m solely a SIM offline gamer lol I know sad right? It’s 2023 but I like my own little SIM bubble.