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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 116
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: golf_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15546
Model: 15546
UPC: 014633155464
EAN: 0014633155464
ASIN: B00160PA4E
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Battle your friends in 15 fun and challenging mini-games that keep the competition fierce, long after you have finished your round | | • | Tiger Woods' real life coach Hank Haney will guide you through your career right from the start and help you improve your confidence | | • | Get the most out of every club with the Club Tuner, an all-new swing-control feature that allows you to calibrate your clubs to fit your personal tendencies and preferences | | • | Coach Haney will be constantly watching your performance and assessing areas for improvement | | • | Ball trail visuals indicate your competitors' shots, allowing you to swing whenever you're ready |
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Amazon.com
Everyone Plays, Anyone Can Win Whether you're a seasoned veteran or hitting the links for the first time, now everybody swings on an even playing field in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 All-Play. Your career begins under the watchful eye of Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' real-life coach, who takes you under his wing, helps you tune your clubs, and provides training drills to help improve your game. With experience under your belt and confidence as your ally, take aim at family, friends, and rivals in fun and challenging game modes, including the new Golf Party mini-game mode. With improved swing mechanics, an all-new controller system, and tutelage from one of the game's best coaches, play your way to the top of the leaderboard with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 All-Play. 
 | Key Features
- EA SPORTS All-Play-An all-new controller system allows golfers of all skill levels to play on an even playing field, removing the guesswork as the game shows you exactly where your ball will travel before every shot.
- All-New Golf Party Mode-Battle your friends in 15 fun and challenging mini-games that keep the competition fierce, long after you have finished your round.
- All-New Performance Coach-Tiger Woods' real-life coach, Hank Haney, guides you through your career by assessing your performance and providing tips to increase your skills.
- Maximize Your Swing-Get the most out of every club with the Club Tuner, an all-new swing control feature that allows you to calibrate your clubs to fit your personal tendencies and preferences.
- All-New Online Simultaneous Play-For the first time on the Nintendo Wii, compete with a live foursome in the time it takes to play a single-player round. Ball trail visuals indicate your competitors' shots, allowing you to swing whenever you're ready.
- New Courses and Golfers-Test your skills on new courses, including Gary Player Country Club in South Africa, Wentworth Country Club in England, and more, while international stars Se Ri Pak, Darren Clarke, and others join the competition.
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Product Description
Whether you're a seasoned veteran or hitting the links for the first time, now everybody swings on an even playing field, in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. Your career begins under the watchful eye of Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' real-life coach, who takes you under his wing, helps you tune your clubs, and provides training drills to help improve your game. With experience under your belt and confidence as your ally, take aim at family, friends, and rivals in fun and challenging game modes, including the new Golf Party mini-game mode. With improved swing mechanics, an all-new controller system, and tutelage from one of the game's best coaches, play your way to the top of the leader board with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. All new swing controls provides a one to one relationship between what you're doing with the Wii remote and what your player is doing on screen, for the ultimate control and accuracy with every swing. For the first time on the Nintendo Wii, compete with a live foursome in the time it takes to play a single-player round
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
 Golf Shold be Difficult September 11, 2008
Professor (New York City)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All Play for the Wii is an excellent golf simulation. I have read the complaints about the putting. Listen, putting was far too easy on ealier iterations. Putting on Tiger 09 can be mastered, but guess what? Doing so takes effort and practice and touch and hard work--just as putting in real life does. The satisfaction from becoming skilled and consistent is just what a golf game should demand. In like manner, mastering the full or partial swing takes time and effort. Good, golf is a difficult and demanding sport,a humbling experience. Tiger 09 for the Wii is terrific, a golfer's delight, if not a gamer's delight. Buy it, master it, and experience the satisfaction for learning how to do something difficult very, very well.
Best Console Golf Game October 8, 2008
To Be Simple
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have played dozens of golf games dating back to golf on the Commodore-64. Some games have been completely pathetic, while others have been relatively good. I bought Tiger Woods 09 for the Wii basically because I like to try most every golf game that hits the market. My expectations for this game were actually fairly low, as EA has not exactly put out killer software for the Wii.
Having put in over 30 hours with Tiger Woods 09 I can safely say that this is the most fun console golf game I have ever played. Not only is the game incredibly deep with an absolute ton of modes of play, but it also sports a great online component. The developers really did a good job of making TW09 a truly fun multi-player experience.
What makes Tiger Woods 09 such a great game is the control. The 1:1 swing mechanic can be tuned in a variety of ways. It takes some getting used to in terms of shot strength, but once the user gets it down the game is butter. As far as putting is concerned, this is the best putting system in a golf game, no questions asked. Yes, the putting system may seem confusing at first, but after spending some time with it the user will realize that putting in TW09 is as close to real-life putting yet seen in a golf game. Everything from the clearly visible slope on the greens to the depth of resources the putting system provides to the user makes hanging out on the green a joy.
As to be expected, the graphics of the Wii version of Tiger Woods 09 are not as detailed as those of the 360/PS3 versions, but they are still not too shabby. I particularly like the way the undulations and elevation changes on each hole are depicted.
Finally, EA smartly included an "All-Play" level of difficulty that allows inexperienced or less-skilled gamers to be able to be competitive. Of course, there are standard and advanced difficuly levels as well. This allows someone who has never played the game or is not very good to be able to play with a seasoned TW pro and still have fun without being blown out of the water. I like to play on the hardest difficulty level, but when someone comes over to the house they still have fun since they can play on the easier mode.
Overall, Tiger Woods 09 is exactly the type of sports game Wii owners deserve. It wonderfully takes advantage of the controller technology, offers a ton of modes of play and customizations, and has a high fun factor. Get this game and spend some time learning to play it properly. You will not be sorry.
Very Enjoyable! September 19, 2008
pedro101
I read through a lot of the reviews here and I have to say I disagree with the complaints about the new putting system. I really do find it intuitive. When putting, a marker is given with a percentage bar. If you need to adjust the marker, the percentage will change, so adjust your put accordingly to make it to the hole while paying attention to the slopes on the green. Sure, it takes some practice and getting used to, but within my first game I was getting pars and birdies on some of the holes! I also took my game online only to find people who are much better than me.
In conclusion, I really find the game intuitive and enjoyable. Overall this game has gotten great reviews from gaming sites (I suggest reading them as well as the reviews here), and I'm enjoying this game and am having fun building up my golfer and playing online.
Addicting Game September 25, 2008
John Mills (Minneapolis)
This is a great game. the game play is addicting, the play is logical. If I have one complaint it's the putting. Putting is not intuitive, it feels like you have to swing for the fences to putt, and it's very difficult to get it to putt at three quarter strength. If you don't swing for the fences, you only get credit for 1/2 strength, and you unfairly dub the ball.
The play with the clubs is pretty logical, drives and wood play requires you to swing similar to a real golf game, Iron selection is logical.
Picking out clothes and accessories is great fun, as is picking custom reactions to good and bad plays.
So all in all, this game is a lot of fun. I have spent many hours playing it, and plan to spend many more.
It's hard, but so is real golf. November 19, 2008
Mr. Myst
Just want to talk about the putting, because the rest of the game is phenomenal. Yes, the putting is hard, but it's still not as hard as putting is in real life. Some of these other reviewers have obviously played more golf video games than real rounds. The putting takes admittedly a couple days at least to get used to, but I've had the game about a week and I've nearly mastered it. I put on this game about the same that I do on an actual golf course. You just have to move the target back from the default position and estimate the power you need. Not that hard to figure out.
The rest of the game is terrific. The PGA tour is so immersive and potentially time-consuming that you'll forget to spend time on the real course! There's also tons of minigames and alternate modes, like showdowns with pro golfers, but I haven't gotten the chance to play much of these yet.
Bottom line is that this game is REALISTIC. That means it's difficult. But don't kid yourself, a real game is substantially harder.
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