Dominic Snadeeza


Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 is the latest offering from EA, which has been consistently delivering the goods when it comes to sports gaming franchises.

This series has paved the way for golf gaming standards. As an improvement from previous games, developers took the time out to make significant changes in terms of gameplay and spice up the golfing experience for old and new players alike.

In this improvement efforts, developers of Tiger Woods 09 considered two factors. For one, this game will hopefully take you a step closer to what real life golf is all about. Certain aspects and features of a real golf game are extracted then integrated to the game in the form of new attributes and features.

To those of you who do not possess ******** golfing skills but are willing to learn more about the sport, Tiger Woods 2009 offers a venue to explore and enjoy the sport at the same time. Hence, this game is not just isolated to the skilled and pro golf gamers but is also suitable for all skill levels.

To give players more control over their performance on the game, some improvements were done on certain features like the dynamic attribute system, rewind and club-tuning feature. Tiger Woods 2009 emphasizes how the level of attributes are reflected into actual game performance. To put things into perspective, there are different aspects of your skill that are focused on in this game which includes power, accuracy, short game, and putting. Having concrete data to base your performance on, you can now assess which ones you need to adjust on if you want to improve your game.

There is also a new coach feature that is available in Tiger Woods 09 so you can get valuable feedback and gauge your skills. If Haney have managed to make a golfing champ out of Tiger Woods, then he might be the person to turn to for better golfing skills.

Improving on the previous game’s online feature, it is now possible to have up to 4 players take on a golfing game simultaneously. And for more choices, 5 additional courses will be available to play on thus expanding your golfing experience.

If you want a more dynamic game, then the improved features on this game will certainly provide the much needed boost. But unlike popular misconception, this golf game will offer lots of ways to gather your friends together and enjoy virtual golfing.

With Tiger Woods 09, its developers have certainly transported the excitement of an outdoor golf game straight into your living room set. Aside from that, this experience will be shared by loyal gamers to the series and those who will try their club-swinging skills for the first time.

Let’s face it though, all you really want to know is whether this game is so much better than last years version, that its worth buying ?

Find out in our huge review of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 which you can read by following the links below.

Payton Brooks


Usually, all of the attention paid by the media when a birth announcement is made is given to teen celebrities and people like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. While plenty of professional athletes and their wives have children each year, not all of them really make the news; simply put, that’s not the case for golfer Tiger Woods.

Within the first days of September, Tiger Woods made an announcement in the blog on his web site: he and his wife Elin Woods are expecting to have their second child over the course of the next months. According to the post that was made with the announcement, Tiger Woods’ second child will be born at some point during the late winter and the golfer is already starting to wonder whether his daughter, Sam, is going to be the big sister to a younger sister or a younger brother.

Of course, there’s no doubt whatsoever that, even though Tiger Woods and his wife will be having a second child, Sam will not hold a special place in the golfer’s heart. Ultimately, the 32 year old who has - in many ways - changed the face of golf will not only love his first child, but also, because of his knee injury and efforts to recover from surgery, he will be able to treasure the memories that he has made while he has been kept on the sidelines of the PGA. It is the time that Tiger Woods has spend with Sam and his wife Elin that lead him to look at the surgery as more than just a disappointing time period in his career and to see that, in some ways, the surgery and recovery period have been a blessing.

Still, it’s unlikely that Tiger Woods fans will have to worry that a second child would lead him away from the game of golf. Though he has not participated in a tournament since June of 2008 and the U.S. Open, Tiger has not let go of his love for the game of golf. In the meantime, while going through the work of recovering from a knee injury and the surgery that followed, Tiger Woods has been working to design two separate golf courses - one in the nation of Dubai and the other in the state of North Carolina.

In other words, while Tiger Woods may not feel that 2008 has been very successful for him in terms of time spent out on the golf course, it’s safe to assume that he is pleased with the way that things are going. Tiger Woods says that he enjoys spending time designing golf courses, has been working toward recovering from the surgery and that the time that he got to spend with his daughter assures him that being a parent is its own reward. And, of course, given the news of a second child, it would appear that the rewards of parenthood are among the top prizes that Tiger Woods has received over the course of his career.

Syd Z. Nohcud asked:


Now that you “have taken up” the social sport of golf you may well have a couple of questions. Golf and golf is a most terrific social sport. You get to while away hours, conferring with the golf greens as well as your friends on the golf course. It’s a wonderful, relaxing pastime. As well many of business’s “big deals” and business contacts can well be made golfing and on the golf course as well in the golf course clubhouse.

Now that you have decided to enroll in the pastime of golf what indeed are the basics of golf?

To begin with w standard set of golf and golfing clubs includes three “woods” golf clubs. These three woods or “drivers” comprise the “driver”, “three-wood” and “five-wood”. Next in line, in the description of standard golf clubs are the “irons”. The groups of the “irons” group of golf clubs generally are composed of the three-iron, five-iron, six-iron, seven-iron, eight-iron, nine-iron, pitching wedge and finally the all famous golf club, with which to make your final shot into the golf cup on the golf green.

According the strict rules of golf you cannot carry more than fourteen clubs in your personal golf bag. This is a very strict and enforced rule of the game and sport of golf. You cannot carry more than the maximum allotted number of fourteen golf clubs in your golf bag - even if you never ever use those extra clubs. It can be said that often more experienced and advanced golf players mix and match here and there with extra , non of the mill , non standard golf clubs , for example a one-iron or a seven wood. However in these cases the sum total maximum of the golf clubs in their bag adds up to 14 golf clubs. As a newcomer or beginner golf player it is always best to start your golf career with the standard , simple array of golf clubs that are used by most golfers. Why make life, and your golf career, complex for yourself, unnecessarily.

The woods have the longest shafts of any golf club in your bag. The golf wood clubs are designed to simply hit the golf ball either from a small wooden peg, called the tee, which elevates the ball slightly. You can only use a “tee” in the tee-box at the start of a golf hole. Next you can hit the golf on a flat surface of the golf course, like the fairway. The “wood” golf clubs are made and designed to hit the ball a long, long way. Accuracy of the hit of the golf ball is less of an issue here. Woods obtained their name as they used to be made of persimmon wood itself. While some of these clubs are still made the old way, out of actual persimmon wood, most now are made out of metal - generally steel or better yet titanium. Some golfing fanatics will tell you that the permission based woods gives these golfers “more control” on the golf course. Again as a beginner golfer why complicate your life unnecessarily. Start with standard metal woods. In addition maintenance and care of these clubs is easier.

Like woods the irons are mismatched. These groups of golf clubs are not made out of iron but mostly of steel, titanium and with higher end iron utilizing high tech graphite materials in their structures as well. Irons with the smallest numbers, like the three-iron or the four-iron, have the longest shafts and are designed to hit the golf ball lower and further, and like the woods, with less accuracy. Shafts get shorter as the numbers printed on the sole get bigger and larger, until you get to the “Sand Wedge”. The sand wedge is the shortest club in the golf bag. The standard sand wedge has a 34 inch shaft, which is eight inches shorter than a standard driver shaft. The shortest clubs, like the nine irons, pitching wedge, and sand wedge are designed for accuracy, not distance. An optimum shot with a pitching wedge flies high in the air and lands softly, without much roll. That way you can aim right at the hole. Indeed golf professionals often call their wedges “money clubs” since these pro golfers cannot win the high end golf tournaments unless they can hit the ball so close to the hole that they are in with only a very few putts.

Lastly you will find that because these shafts are so much shorter and are designed to get your golf ball into the air, you will find that you will generally have your most success as a new and budding golf aficionado with your nine-iron and pitching wedge. These are very good clubs to practice when you are first starting out. You will soon discover what a great golf shot is supposed to feel and look like. Keep practicing with these two clubs because when you finally make it onto the golf course, these will be the clubs that will save you many a golf shot and lower your golf score.