Editor's Note: I love playing golf with my father and my brother. I wish they would play Tiger Woods PGA Tour with me -- then maybe I could use my superior knowledge of videogame logic to beat them at some form of golf for the first time in more than two decades! Reid brings up a valid point; golf on the links is different than golf on a console. -Jason
My father loves to play golf. He's been playing since he was in high school. Unfortunately, actually going out to play is becoming harder and harder to do thanks to time constraints and financial issues. So for Father's Day, my siblings and I got him Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for Wii (with Wii Motion Plus). My father was pretty excited about the gift, so we both drove to his house and started playing.
First off, thank you, EA, for allowing players to use the same Wii Remote when playing golf and disc golf. Allowing all players to use one Wii Motion Plus without having to trust the consumer to know to buy more is a genius move.
One of the key features of the Wii Motion Plus is that it will give a more 1:1 experience than the original Wii-mote. Tiger Woods PGA Tour has been boasting that with Wii Motion Plus, every flaw in your game will be re-created accurately. Unfortunately for long time golfers -- and new-time gamers -- this is not the case for the entire experience. My father has a very weird golf swing; he deliberately adds a lot of draw to his shots and aims to the right to compensate. The game doesn't read this action very well, so I tend to have better accuracy than him. He also knows how to read greens and elevation very well, but Tiger Woods PGA Tour does not. My father frequently overanalyzes a shot and completely screws it up because the game is not like real golf.