After weeks of speculation and chatter on the forums about this new mode and what it might entail, we're excited to finally talk about our new Tournament Challenge feature. You've all been waiting patiently, so let's get right to it...
What it's all About
Tournament Challenge is a new game mode that places you directly in some of recent golf history's most memorable scenarios. It'll be up to you and your created golfer to take on each of these challenges to relive or rewrite history. Each of the courses in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 is represented in this new mode and each course includes a series of challenge scenarios you must beat. Within each course there will be a number of pro golfers waiting to challenge you with one of their best real life tournament moments. Each of these moments has been hand-picked and turned into a challenge to test your skills in a number of different golf situations.
A lot of the challenges found in Tournament Challenge will allow you to play against the real life shots that these pros made while they were in the scenarios we've recreated. Here's an example of one of these challenges. At the 2001 THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, Tiger Woods sank an unbelievable putt on the signature par three 17th. This putt has become one of the most recognizable and legendary putts in Tiger's career.
In Tournament Challenge, you'll be challenged to not only make the same putt Tiger made, but to do it shot for shot against him. So in this challenge you'll see Tiger's in-game character execute the same shots he made on this day, at this tournament and on this exact hole and you'll have to match them.
We went through hours and hours of footage and data to recreate the shots that the pro's make in our Tournament Challenge scenarios. Our goal here was to place you alongside these golfers as they made some of the best shots and scored some of the best rounds of their careers. So, these challenges are going to put you up against the licensed pro golfer's in our game and allow you to compete directly against the shots, as they made them in real life, within that tournament scenario. In some of these scenarios you may have to follow a golfer shot for shot. In others you may have to beat his front 9 score or the number of FIR's they hit...or both!
There's a multitude of challenge scenarios and win criteria to challenge your game throughout this mode. However, the one consistent theme is that all of the challenges in Tournament Challenge are based on real life events from actual historic golf tournaments.
More Tiger than Ever Before
While our licensed golfers play a huge role in Tournament Challenge, the star of this feature is Tiger himself. In years past we've had a feature called Tiger Challenge in which Tiger only appeared at the very end. This year we wanted to make sure he was a central figure in this new mode, so we got him personally involved.
If we were going to have players competing against some of Tiger's greatest tournament moments, then we wanted to bring some exclusive content to each of Tiger's individual challenges. So earlier in the development cycle Tiger came out to Tiburon for a video shoot to relive, on camera, each of the Tournament Challenge situations we had selected for him. This was a once in a lifetime experience that all of you will soon be able to enjoy in Tournament Challenge. We asked Tiger to give us his personal insight into each and every one of his 18 individual challenges.
What surfaces in these videos is a master at his craft. Tiger details out for all of you, what he was thinking, feeling, his strategies, and his approach to the game in each of these moments we picked from his career highlights. So each time you go in and take on one of Tiger's scenarios, you'll have the opportunity to watch these videos and get a firsthand account from the man himself to help set up the challenge you are about to play.
Character Progression
Tournament Challenge is located within the My Career section of Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 which means you'll use your created career golfer within this mode. It also means that you'll be able to affect your created golfer's attributes, unlock courses, earn career money and also earn pro shop unlocks as you progress through the challenges.
We're really proud of this new feature and are extremely excited for all of you to try it out in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10! Please feel free to carry on the discussion in the comments section below or on the forums. This is a huge feature with many details and it's difficult to sum it all up in a single blog post. I'd be glad to chime in here or in the forums to answer questions or discuss comments you may have regarding this new mode.
Mike D.