Tee Off With Tiger Woods
Ah, springtime, when the thoughts of many turn to romance, cleaning out the house and hitting the links. If the first two are interfering with your ability to fulfill the third, grab a copy of Aspyr Media’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003. With 12 PGA Tour courses and 15 pro golfers to choose from — including Tiger himself, of course — this game will allow you to live out your fantasy of teeing off at Pebble Beach with the wind at your back, a gentle sunrise on the horizon and an adoring gallery cheering you on.
While many golf titles do a serviceable job of immersing you in the game, the developers at EA Sports really went all-out in their quest to faithfully recreate the sport on your Mac. Birds chirp in the distance as you prepare to hit the ball. Trees sway in a gentle breeze while your drive flies high over the fairway. A plume of sand appears when your ball lands in a trap. The people in the gallery clap and cheer as your next stroke places the ball on the green. And Tiger performs his signature fist pump after knocking a long putt right into the hole.
In addition to embarking on a full PGA tour with the pro of your choice, you can select from 14 types of golf games. For example, match play pits you against another golfer — controlled by either the computer or a friend — and awards one point to the player who finishes each hole with the fewest strokes. The winner is the player with the most points after 18 holes (you can also play 1 hole, 3 holes, or the front or back 9 on each course). Or you could try a shootout, in which up to 8 players battle through 7 holes of golf. The one with the worst score at each hole is eliminated and the last 2 golfers vie for the win at the final hole.
Your Career as a Golfer
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 also allows you to create your own golfer in career mode and put him or her through the paces. You can take lessons to improve your game, compete in various money-paying events, and take time off to hit the practice range. Other golfers will challenge you to a variety of skills competitions that pay out cash to the winner. You use your money to buy better clubs, pay entry fees for events, and improve your golfer’s skill ratings as you work your way from amateur to master.
A calendar shows you the events for each month. You choose which ones to play through the end of the current year, keeping in mind that they get tougher as you get closer to December. Once you complete every event for the year, you move on and face increasingly better opponents, as well as tougher competitions. As your career progresses you can view your trophy case from time to time and admire the hardware you’ve won.
So whether you want to vicariously live the golfer’s life through your favorite pro or try to make a name for yourself as a top-notch player, you’ll find what you’re looking for in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, even if you have no prior experience with the sport.
No Cigar. You’ll soon learn that golf is a game of inches.
Fun in the Sun. Try to get your ball out of a sand trap.
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System Requirements:
 | Mac OS X version 10.2.3 or higher |
| 450MHz PowerPC G3 processor or higher |
| 256MB of RAM |
| 32MB of VRAM or more (ATI Radeon/NVIDIA GeForce video card) |
| 850MB of free hard disk space |
If you liked this game, check out:
| Links Championship Edition 2002 |
Bay Hill Club & Lodge: Located in Orlando, FL, Arnold Palmer’s country club has been part of the PGA Tour since 1979. Its championship course stretches 7,206 yards.
Spyglass Hill Golf Course: These links opened at Pebble Beach in 1966, after Robert Trent Jones, Sr. designed one of the most difficult golf courses in the world. Spyglass also hosts the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and has seen its share of Bill Murray’s legendary antics on the fairway (he participates in almost every Pro-Am and usually puts on a unique comedy routine for the fans).
