![]() ![]() ![]() THE PLAYERS Championship and FedExCup Playoffs - Players will also be able to compete in the PGA TOUR’s most thrilling events during the golf season including THE PLAYERS Championship and FedExCup Playoffs. More up-to-date details on golfers, courses, and other aspects of the game will be revealed closer to launch. “Through our PGA TOUR and LPGA partnerships, all-new PGA TOUR athlete tracking integration, and events like THE PLAYERS Championship and FedExCup Playoffs, players will be able to get an all-access pass to pro championship golf like never before.”īelow are a few of the key features that players can look forward to in EA SPORTS™ PGA TOUR™ when it launches next year. Open Championship, and The Open Championship - and a true next gen championship golf experience to fans next year,” said Cam Weber, EVP and GM, EA SPORTS. “There are few things in sports that match the thrill of winning a major championship, and we’re excited to bring all four majors - the Masters Tournament, PGA Championship, U.S. This even includes getting the right color patterns for the azaleas during different times of the year.Experience the Thrill of Championship Golf with EA SPORTS PGA TOUR in Spring 2023 (Photo: Business Wire) It just allows us to represent the breaks of the course of the terrain slopes absolute perfect detail, to the point where the caddies playing our game are like, ‘Holy cow, this is perfect.’” At Augusta, EA got data from the greenskeepers’ plant health software to track the locations, widths and heights, colors and even branch dispersions of every bush, shrub and tree on the course, as all the foliage has changed since EA last worked with Augusta National. You just you can't even get it from the government that dense. “The level of data that we were able to get when we scanned - it's attached to a helicopter - is insane. “We partnered with former geologists that helped us procure this $800,000 laser that's literally designed to find oil reserves and gold mines,” noted Ramsour. Other techniques that helped the developers map courses include GMP mapping and photogrammetry. They even had a helicopter equipped with LIDAR and cameras from a firm called JMS Geomantics (which maps golf courses) so they could capture just the undulations, curves and flow of each hole, but also map distinct features like crevices on rocks. EA developers were part of the PGA Tour’s pandemic bubble, recording every golfer going into the game to best capture each person’s unique swings to reproduce authentic shots. EA’s developers used data from Shotlink and Trackman to compile over 1,300 physics profiles, working on categories such as ball angles, spin and shot dispersion. TECH SPECS: This game will be the second time EA uses its in-house Frostbyte Engine, which now powers all its games and is known for its stunning visuals. Our list is over 100 of those different partners, which are all personal relationships that you develop to help grow the game of golf together.” Every course is its own entity, every brand and apparel company has its own entity. … Between each golfer that we license, there's not a players’ association, we license them separately. “In Madden, we have the NFL as a partner and the NFLPA as a partner,” said EA Sports Producer Ben Ramsour. EA needed to work with each golfer for rights, along with the gear and apparel brands that are in the game. The game, which will be available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PCs, also will see the return of Augusta National and the Masters to the video game circuit (Take-Two’s PGA Tour 2K23 does not have the event). Courses making a debut on the game include The Country Club at Brookline (which EA said was the hardest to sign), France’s Evian Resort (home to one of the LPGA’s five majors), the Ocean Course at Kiawah and New Zealand’s Tara Iti. EA Sports will have 30 courses and 35 brands attached to its PGA Tour video game release on March 24, which is the video game maker’s first effort with the Tour in seven years. ![]()
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