Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09

Just had a review copy of this sent to me today in the post - never played that much golf before but it looks solid from what I have seen.

Anyone picked this up yet? Any of you experts at this title?


From official website:


Tiger Woods’ coach is now your coach! In Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 09, Hank Haney will be there from the start to assess your skills, help you tune your clubs and give you feedback after every round as you attempt to climb the leaderboards and win the FedExCup. Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 09 is a highly adaptable game that allows both the rookie and the seasoned veteran the ability to have a personalized and customized day on the links. This year’s game also features enhancements to the online experience with a highly integrated EA SPORTS GamerNet experience as well as an all-new online engine powering Simultaneous Play.

Features

* Performance Coach – The TOUR pros have their own coaches and now you do too. Tiger Woods real life coach Hank Haney will guide you through your career right from the start and help you improve your skills as you play each of your rounds. Haney is constantly watching your performance and assessing areas for improvement, providing you tips on how to increase your skills.

* Tune Your Clubs to Maximize Your Swing – With the all new Club Tuner you’ll be able to tune your individual wedges, irons, woods and driver to customize your bag and get the most out of every club. But strategy will come into play as you must weigh the risks of club performance versus ease of use. So tune wisely!

* Dynamic Skills — All-new Dynamic Skills eliminates the chore of building your character up from scratch with skills you set at the beginning of your career. Based up on your performance after each round, your skills will go up and down.
 
* Enhanced EA SPORTS GamerNet — Personalize your experience on EA SPORTS GamerNet like never before. With the all new Instant Challenges you can earn points in any game mode and climb the Daily GamerNet leaderboards. These Instant Challenges - long drive, approach shots and putting, will appear throughout every round, providing a multitude of opportunities to earn GamerNet points while playing other modes.
 
* New Online Mode - In addition, to turn based play an all-new 4-Player Online Simultaneous Play will allow you to compete in a four person round in the same time it takes to play single player. No more waiting for your buddies to hit their golf shot. You will see ball trails from each of your playing partners as the foursome plays the hole at the same time. Finish the hole first and switch over to spectator mode where you’ll see your partners characters as they finish up the hole.
 
* New Courses and Golfers — New challenges await with exotic new locations including Gary Player Country Club in South Africa, Wentworth Country Club in England, Sheshan Golf Club in China, Wolf Creek in Nevada and Bay Hill Country Club in Florida. Adding international flavor to the available golfers in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 are Si Re Pak, Darren Clarke, Nick Dougherty and Rory McIlroy.

I used to play 06 and 07 all the time. I never got 08 because the reviews were pretty poor.  Thinking about getting this though.

I've got it on the way for Wii.  Not sure how it will look or work on that console though.

Sounds good by the review.  Online should be good.

Hows it looking DM?

I got tw09 on ps3 imo it's a very good game,getting your attributes higher is a little frustrating though

I just rented the game to see if it is good enough to buy and I must admit I really like the game though my putting is killing me

I got TW09 on X360 - Pretty much the same as 08 except i think it looks better and the coach and club tuners add different dimensions to the last few.

I'd recommend anyone to buy this who doesnt have it - even non golf fans will love it.