Are you sure you have that right? Before the days of Tour Mode, EA golf used to allow the option to play a four-round tourney against the CPU field using up to four human-controlled players. But that only applied to stand-alone tourneys as I recall. Tour Mode -- where you create a golfer and begin a career as a golf pro -- has always been single player only.
And I too would love to see the return of some of those old features/options. It's kind of crazy they were ever removed, to tell the truth.