Tiger Woods 13 PGA TOUR and CE Info

[DivotMaker]

Great shooting without the aids at Sawgrass JC.

Agreed....excellent round!

[XXXIV]

+9

I think its cool without anything on but a putting rating of 62 just wont work without the caddy or the arrows.

I will be skipping the next few to get me ratings a bit higher.

[Wilk5280]

XP Pin, don't leave home without it.

I got it up to the gold pin where you get 10x XP for every round and then would play in a bunch of the daily tournaments on Pro & Amateur difficulties. I know it sounds cheesy as hell, but I earned a lot of XP this way and was able to improve my CAG much faster this way.

[DivotMaker]

XP Pin, don't leave home without it.

I got it up to the gold pin where you get 10x XP for every round and then would play in a bunch of the daily tournaments on Pro & Amateur difficulties. I know it sounds cheesy as hell, but I earned a lot of XP this way and was able to improve my CAG much faster this way.

This is the way you build up your CAG.....

[J_Cauthen]

Great shooting without the aids at Sawgrass JC.

Agreed....excellent round!

Thanks guys, I somehow got hot with the putter on the back 9 after playing the front 9 in 1-under. I birdied 10, but it really got going on 11 with a 14 foot eagle putt. I wound up 6-under on the back, in spite of a highway robbery bogey on 17.

Get this, I hit a wedge across the water, hit the green, the ball backed up about 6 inches and stopped in the fringe, about 18 feet from the pin. Thinking I was going to be putting from the fringe, 18' away, imagine my shock when I'm dropped in the second cut of rough, on a 6 degree downhill slope, just in front of the teebox, 129 yards to the hole!? I couldn't get down in two from there because of the awkwardness of the shot... I had to put in on the green to avoid the risk of a penalty. Anyway, I wound up with a bogey and a feeling that I'd just been shaken down.

I shouldn't be complaining, I made some putts on which I honestly just made a SWAG at the break and got it right. I just hate to see the game commit such egregious, inexplicable acts.

[J_Cauthen]

+9

I think its cool without anything on but a putting rating of 62 just wont work without the caddy or the arrows.

I will be skipping the next few to get me ratings a bit higher.

I've got my putting rating at 93, but have had it as high as 100. I was hoping the 100 rating would get rid of my golfer's Parkinson's disease in his animation... it doesn't. I can't tell any difference between 93 and 100 in terms of performance. Maybe with the meter enabled it would, but that's not on my radar.

I would encourage you to play PGA Season mode with the 10X XP Boost pin in service. You can buy the boost pin refill pack and sell back all buy the XP pins to minimize your EA coin expense. It's worth it!

[J_Cauthen]

My apologies for not giving a notice on the DLC Daily Tournament that's underway today. I know not all of us bought the 11 course pack, but I figured most of us have played enough to have earned enough coins to download "X" number of plays on the DLC courses. If no one has any objections, I'll just keep calling Monday's "DLC Monday", and we'll play a new DLC course until we've run through them all. It will end up with the bonus course (TPC River Highlands) so that everyone will have had as much of an opportunity as possible to earn the right to play that course.

I was preparing to set up the Daily for this evening and I got the idea of trying gridless greens, with putt preview enabled. I've never tried it before, but I thought it might be something to experiment with. My thinking is that you'd try to get as good a read as you can get on your own, and then click the putt preview to see how close you got. More often than not, you're probably going to want to adjust your aim after the putt preview has displayed. If I understand the way this works, you only get one putt preview per hole.

Anyway, I just thought I'd toss this out there to see what you guys thoughts on it are. I was looking at setting today's Daily at Liberty National, which has some pretty tricky greens.

[J_Cauthen]

I experienced the most loading screen freezes I've experienced in my ownership of this game this past week. I got locked out of two Ace Opens on XBL, had one freeze in a DSP Daily (which thankfully we had a second try for) and I had four head to head matches freeze in online multiplayer. I was just wondering what you guys are seeing in both Live Tournament and Online Multiplayer. Oh, FWIW, I didn't have a freeze in my Career mode play, but only played 36 holes in it last week.

[J_Cauthen]

One final item I'd like to toss out there... Last week I was "annointed" the Club Champion of DSP. It was due solely to my extended play time I had with the game, not my performances. I won one Daily, but had top 5 finishes in all but one of them.

I was curious to see how the "Club Champion Invitational" tournament experience would be, even after seeing that it was set at Tour Pro difficulty. I played all 72 holes in the tournament which was held at Pinehurst. I shot a 17 under par to finish in 53rd place, out of 114 entrants. FILE THIS won it with a 76 under par total Only 65 players submitted four rounds. I'd have finished lower if some of those below me had played the tournament out.

One would think I would be able to score better with Tour Pro difficulty, but I swear, the dad-gummed swing meters (which can't be turned OFF) screwed me up more than the easier swing difficulty helped me. I couldn't tune those meters out and was distracted by them to the point that they caused me all sorts of problems with distance control. I hit everything straight, but had no confidence in my feel because I was second guessing myself with what I was subconsciously seeing from the meters.

To my knowledge, there hasn't been a Tournament difficulty Club Champion or Club Pro invitational tournament yet. I have no interest in playing anything less than Tournament difficulty from here on out. I just wonder if EA can't find a better solution for these invitational tournaments. Should that have an invitational tournament for each of the four difficulty levels, or would that divide the available competitors up too much?

[Danimal]

I shot a 17 under par to finish in 53rd place, out of 114 entrants. FILE THIS won it with a 76 under par total Only 65 players submitted four rounds. I'd have finished lower if some of those below me had played the tournament out.

That's an average of 19 under a round. I would be so bold as to say golden tee golf in the bar delivers more realistic scores

I would of shelved this game by now if not for our little club / competition. I'm completely bored with playing offline but you need to do so to boost your guy to hope to compete. Since I started using the 10xp pin trick someone posted I have been raising my guys stats a lot faster but the offline tournaments are boring. I won my last one by 25 strokes.

I really hope they add the ability to have an OCC CAG next year. You can only use him in the daily and weeklys and thus everyone can raise their stats at the same pace. I have no doubt it wouldn't help me out I can't put (I 6 putted 17 last night to go from -1 to 5 over for my round) but it just seems more logical from a balance standpoint.

[webdanzer]

I would of shelved this game by now if not for our little club / competition. I'm completely bored with playing offline but you need to do so to boost your guy to hope to compete. Since I started using the 10xp pin trick someone posted I have been raising my guys stats a lot faster but the offline tournaments are boring. I won my last one by 25 strokes.

I just went back to playing some career mode this weekend after not having touched it since soon after the game had come out. It was funny to see where I had left it, on the first Nationwide Tour Tourney after two rounds!

I ended up switching the rounds to 2, and played about 6 rounds over the weekend. (Quickly advancing to PGA tour for winning 3 tourneys) Already saw 2 equipment boosts and gained a heck of a lot more XP than I did when I was exclusively playing our online tourneys, which is what I have been doing for most of my time with the game.

I figure I'll keep playing offline instead of the daily tourneys for a while now, to get my guy leveled up some. I simply CAN'T STAND to play on anything less than the same difficulty settings that we use for our tourneys, though, so it'll still probably take me a while. IIRC, I have two abilities in the 80s, one 70, and all the rest lower.

[10spro]

I experienced the most loading screen freezes I've experienced in my ownership of this game this past week. I got locked out of two Ace Opens on XBL, had one freeze in a DSP Daily (which thankfully we had a second try for) and I had four head to head matches freeze in online multiplayer. I was just wondering what you guys are seeing in both Live Tournament and Online Multiplayer. Oh, FWIW, I didn't have a freeze in my Career mode play, but only played 36 holes in it last week.

My problem thus far has been starting the game from the get go. The first couple of tries the game just goes into a freeze mode even before I have a chance to log out of XBL in order to start the game. Not until my average 3rd or 4th try at it and waiting maybe a full minute to log out of XBL, that I finally get the chance to play this damn game. Never had so many problems kick starting a game like this before.

Fortunately lately, during the tournaments I had no freezes at all, including the custom made matches I've been playing with randoms other than the typical 'Lost connection' by some of them. So in a way, it is damn frustrating to start TW for me in the beginning but once I am in, it has been smooth. I guess I rather pick this lesser devil than having a freeze in mid round of any event.

[Naples39]

Playing career mode isn't so bad IMO. I put it on expert, even if that means I rank up my guy slower, but at least you can use the 10x XP pin. Also, the scores the CPU puts up is adjustable, so you can make them score unrealistically low if you like.

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe we could put on boost pins for the daily tourneys with the gentleman's agreement that you are only allowed to the use the XP boost pin?

[10spro]

I loved playing Banff BTW. Although at times I just found myself marvelling at the nature's beauty and forgot how tricky and difficult the pins were at the expert location. Personally John, I have all the courses so I am OK with trying a new DLC every Monday.

I wasn't aware that you could only play 2 rounds in offline tourneys. Do you adjust the rounds in the settings? If so, I may dive in more for offline play.

[Naples39]

I loved playing Banff BTW. Although at times I just found myself marvelling at the nature's beauty and forgot how tricky and difficult the pins were at the expert location. Personally John, I have all the courses so I am OK with trying a new DLC every Monday.

I wasn't aware that you could only play 2 rounds in offline tourneys. Do you adjust the rounds in the settings? If so, I may dive in more for offline play.

I like Banff too. Not a difficult layout, but it looks stunning.

I am also a fan of Spyglass if we are talking DLC. A fascinating layout IMO.

[10spro]

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe we could put on boost pins for the daily tourneys with the gentleman's agreement that you are only allowed to the use the XP boost pin?

I am OK with that but perhaps I would limit it to a couple of dailies, not every day.

[orthostud23]

I thought I was going to post a LOW LOW number at Banff last night when I was -5 through 4 holes. Well lets just say we didnt make any progress after that and lost a couple of strokes. Damn that course!! I bought 3 rounds for that course so I am going to play it again tonight (offline folks before anyone starts accusing me of cheating )and try to figure the course it out.

[Aristo]

I would of shelved this game by now if not for our little club / competition. I'm completely bored with playing offline but you need to do so to boost your guy to hope to compete. Since I started using the 10xp pin trick someone posted I have been raising my guys stats a lot faster but the offline tournaments are boring. I won my last one by 25 strokes.

I shelved it once I realized that to compete with the folks playing here, I would need to master the game to a point that would be not fun. If I shot those kinds of scores I'd quit playing.

Seeing guys scoring that low erased my desire to get better at the game. Not because I couldn't, but because it was clearly to easy to break the realism of the game. The end goal had become ruined.

If I was scoring 8 goals a game in NHL 12, Cranking 90 HRs in MLB 2K13, or scoring 75 points a game with Kansas in NCAA 12, those would get shelved to. I quit the last Madden league I was in because of a guy that was rolling everyone else in the league to point of ridiculousness. Again, to become good enough to beat him, it would have ruined the experience of the game.

[Danimal]

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe we could put on boost pins for the daily tourneys with the gentleman's agreement that you are only allowed to the use the XP boost pin?

I think that would be a good idea. Not sure how there is any disadvantage to it since the guys with their scores maxed don't lose anything.

[J_Cauthen]

I don't think we'd have to worry about the DSPers abusing the Boost Pins, by having them enabled for XP multiplier only. I now have all the XP I can distribute; I'm just shuffling them around among the 6 attributes seeing what works best for me.

As for today's daily, let me know what you'd prefer to see in the setup:

Gridless - no caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - manual caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - no caddy, putt previews

[DChaps]

+9

I think its cool without anything on but a putting rating of 62 just wont work without the caddy or the arrows.

I will be skipping the next few to get me ratings a bit higher.

Wuss!!! Please don't skip, I need someone to compete with. My putting is yet to be in the 60's. In fact the only attribute I have in the 60's is power. I never play offline and basically all of my TW13 is either DSP CC Daily's or Weeklys so it is just taking a long time to build it up. Plus I don't for the life of me understand how the stupd pins, refills, course/pro packs and all that stuff work.

[Danimal]

I don't think we'd have to worry about the DSPers abusing the Boost Pins, by having them enabled for XP multiplier only. I now have all the XP I can distribute; I'm just shuffling them around among the 6 attributes seeing what works best for me.

As for today's daily, let me know what you'd prefer to see in the setup:

Gridless - no caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - manual caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - no caddy, putt previews

Gridless - manual caddy, no putt preview is what I prefer. I play the 3rd one as well but if I hit a tourney with the 1st option I just back out and quit. I'm still waiting for someone to explain a plausible way to read the greens with that first setting.

[10spro]

I don't think we'd have to worry about the DSPers abusing the Boost Pins, by having them enabled for XP multiplier only. I now have all the XP I can distribute; I'm just shuffling them around among the 6 attributes seeing what works best for me.

As for today's daily, let me know what you'd prefer to see in the setup:

Gridless - no caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - manual caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - no caddy, putt previews

We haven't tried the 3rd choice, have we? So that's my vote. But again, it doesn't really matter in my case.

[J_Cauthen]

I shelved it once I realized that to compete with the folks playing here, I would need to master the game to a point that would be not fun. If I shot those kinds of scores I'd quit playing.

Seeing guys scoring that low erased my desire to get better at the game. Not because I couldn't, but because it was clearly to easy to break the realism of the game. The end goal had become ruined.

I can completely understand your thinking on this. There are times when I'm close to reaching that point. I just played today's Ace Open (Tournament Difficulty) Daily Tournament on the main Live Tournaments page, under breezy conditions, long rough and fast greens with gusts enabled at Celtic Manor4. The leader is -19, with a guy behind him at -11. I shot an 11 under par round (which I didn't feel like I earned, BTW) and I'm in 15th place.

The thing is... I didn't particularly enjoy the round because it felt artificially easy. I hit all but one fairway and the one I missed was because I misjudged the wind, not because I didn't hit it straight. Hitting greens was too easy because it's too easy to hit the ball straight, even in tournament difficulty.

I get far more out of this game when the conditions are such that I'm having struggle to break 70. My favorite round of all time is still a 72 that I shot in one of our Tournament Dailies for DSP at Pinehurst. I had to think and play like a golfer under more earthlike conditions for that score. That should give you and idea of how I can relate to your perspective.

The biggest problem with this game is it's too easy to hit the ball straight. I hit over 90% of the fairways in regulation and 82% of the greens in regulation. I think the swing interface could be tuned to punish errant swings more than it does now.

[Danimal]

I don't think we'd have to worry about the DSPers abusing the Boost Pins, by having them enabled for XP multiplier only. I now have all the XP I can distribute; I'm just shuffling them around among the 6 attributes seeing what works best for me.

As for today's daily, let me know what you'd prefer to see in the setup:

Gridless - no caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - manual caddy, no putt preview
Gridless - no caddy, putt previews

We haven't tried the 3rd choice, have we? So that's my vote. But again, it doesn't really matter in my case.

We played a weekly or daily with it and people hated it.