Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

[DivotMaker]

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Loved that game too and the 3-click in TW10...It would have been nice to have the 3-click as an option but not a deal breaker.

Unfortunately two major issues have kept 3-click out of Tiger since TW13....

1) Less than .01% of all users played 3-click

2) 3-click is no longer compatible since EA introduced TSC (Total Swing Control) in TW13....

[HANDSWARD_EA]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Hands, what time can we expect to see this blog? I'm stoked to read about the updates?

It's up...

http://www.easports.com/tiger-woods/news/article/career-mode-dev-blog

[Love13]

It's up...

http://www.easports.com/tiger-woods/...-mode-dev-blog

Sweet!!! Headed there now

[Flightwhite24]

Nice write up!!!

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[Love13]

It's up...

http://www.easports.com/tiger-woods/...-mode-dev-blog

Hey hands, I just read your blog. Looks fun and can't wait to play. I do have a question though.

With the addition of the money list and the new format with q school, is the career fully dynamic? Meaning do you actually have to earn your way into q school by your amatuer performance, and to move from web.com to PGA? Or will you automatically get moved up to each stage after playing so many tournaments in the previous stage? Also once your on the PGA tour, do you have to earn your card for future years? Can you get sent back to the web.com tour if you are not hacking it on the PGA tour? Or once your in the PGA tour you are there no matter how you perform?

[CallCenterZombie]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Great stuff! You guys listened. Been wanting a money leader stat for years. Thanks!

[Matt10]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Great write up, definitely exciting for offline mode as well. Thanks, hands.

[chi_hawks]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Great stuff! You guys listened. Been wanting a money leader stat for years. Thanks!

Yeah, this is an awesome feature. Increases the longevity of the game for me big time. Kudos to EA!

[Love13]

We wanted to make it fully dynamic where you could be kicked back to the Nationwide Playoffs to re-earn your tour card but we didn't have the time to get that far with it. We tried to get an early start on all these progression changes but we had to wait for the new system to get finalized with the official rules and structure. That took longer than we hoped and we ran out of time to get the backwards progression into the game. So once you advance, you won't go back.

Well I'm happy to hear that it was at least an idea. I think that will do wonders for the longevity and realism of this franchise when you can get it implemented. So I hope to see it in the future. Thanks for the insight. I can't wait until the 26th. I may even have to get an Xbox live gold membership so I can check out the country clubs this year. That look like a lot of fun.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

We wanted to make it fully dynamic where you could be kicked back to the Nationwide Playoffs to re-earn your tour card but we didn't have the time to get that far with it. We tried to get an early start on all these progression changes but we had to wait for the new system to get finalized with the official rules and structure. That took longer than we hoped and we ran out of time to get the backwards progression into the game. So once you advance, you won't go back.

You addressed the point oif not having to re-earn your PGA tour card but you weren't specific about whether we have to earn our way into the Web.com tour and then the PGA tour when you start your career rather than just being kicked up into the PGA tour simply because you played all the events regardless of how well you did.

I am ecstatic that the career mode is more involving this year and full season stats are back. I was one of the biggest whiners in previous years complaining how boring career mode had been so this is like Xmas for me. Stats, season and the ones that occur as you play gives the mode so much more replay value.

Will there be a a notification alert like they had a couple of years ago which would post what the top of the leaderboard would be doing as you play? If I was on a certain hole, an alert would come up saying another golfer just birdied or bogeyed on another hole. That was a good feature that should have never been taken out.

[Love13]

You addressed the point oif not having to re-earn your PGA tour card but you weren't specific about whether we have to earn our way into the Web.com tour and then the PGA tour when you start your career rather than just being kicked up into the PGA tour simply because you played all the events regardless of how well you did.

I am ecstatic that the career mode is more involving this year and full season stats are back. I was one of the biggest whiners in previous years complaining how boring career mode had been so this is like Xmas for me. Stats, season and the ones that occur as you play gives the mode so much more replay value.

Will there be a a notification alert like they had a couple of years ago which would post what the top of the leaderboard would be doing as you play? If I was on a certain hole, an alert would come up saying another golfer just birdied or bogeyed on another hole. That was a good feature that should have never been taken out.

Agreed. I loved that feature. I also would like in the 2/3/4 day tournaments what you've done on previous days on each hole. If I'm on hole 12 and ive gotten birdie par birdie on that hole the previous days it should show that as I come to the tee. Even have the broadcasters mention it sometimes. It would add a lot to the tournament/presentation feel of the game.

[Danimal]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Can I still sue a belly putter but just not anchor it to my belly?

Sorry that is not a serious question I am just still annoyed by that ruling. Only because my coach finally convinced me to go to a belly putter at the start of last year, it took me the whole season to get use to it and now I have to ditch it.

Anyway nice write up.

[CallCenterZombie]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Sometimes you have to tell coaches no. They don't know everything.

[Danimal]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Sometimes you have to tell coaches no. They don't know everything.

How did that work out for Tiger Woods?

Sorry back on topic.

[Love13]

I didn't own the progression changes, so I am not 100% on this. But I believe web.com Tour advancement works like this...
- You can win 3 events and earn the battlefield promotion, which is an instant PGA TOUR card.
- You can win the money list before the playoffs and earn a PGA TOUR card.
- If you finish 2nd-50th/75th (not sure which, but its one of them) you earn a spot in the web.com playoffs. If you finish top X (not sure what number that is either) in the playoffs you earn a PGA TOUR card.
- If you miss the playoffs or finish out of top X in playoffs you have to replay web.com tour.
- But once you do advance to PGA TOUR, you will never get demoted.


We don't have the specific notification like you saw in Tiger 11. However, the new broadcast presentation banners will keep you updated on scores/stats/etc. throughout your round and should provide you with a lot of cool info that hasn't been in the game before.

Nice, still sounds like a lot of fun. Is there an amatuer season like there is in 13? Also I read in your blog if you win the US Am, you get invited to play in the us open. Is this correct? Is there no option to play in the masters as an amatuer anymore?