
You can even add bias to the clubs, to counteract any hook or slice tendencies you may have.

So it's a trade off, boosting in one area without causing too much harm to the overall performance. The lower this percentage, the harder it will be to hit a straight shot. You could increase the power of a driver, for instance, but each new improvement lowers the "sweet spot" of the club. It sounds - and looks - daunting but it's actually quite accessible and Hank Haney will offer suggestions, if you feel out of your depth.Īfter hitting a few practice shots, graded green, yellow or red depending on how straight you hit, you can enter the workshop to make adjustments. This is a tinkerer's dream, a driving range where you can not only practice your shots with drivers, irons, woods and wedges, but take each individual club in your bag and tweak it to suit your playing style. Obviously you're hoping to see a nice straight line bisecting the ball, but if you have a tendency to hook or slice this will show you precisely where your fingers are letting you down.Īrmed with this info, you can head to the Club Tuner, the last of the major new additions for this year. The game now displays an exact representation of your swing as a yellow line across an icon of the tee ball.


It's still not much of a cheat, since it can save your skin by squeaking you past the edge of a bunker, but you can't shift the ball's direction by any ridiculous degree.Īlso new for those using the stick system is Real Time Swing Feedback, another idea so simple it's amazing it's not been used before. Features like draw, fade and loft are now easier than ever to set before taking a shot, while the ability to give the ball a little aftertouch nudge in mid-air also remains. Hammering a button during your backswing while using the stick system gives you a power boost of up to 20 per cent, but such features are disabled in the Tour Pro difficulty, along with the handy Putt Preview that shows you the trajectory of your planned putt, but only once per shot.
