Wii are now a golfer
Seb was just asking if the Wii was gathering dust or if I’ve been using it much lately.
Well, it’s not gathering dust. I’ve been playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007
It’s not technically my birthday yet — but it is this weekend — but as the GLW liked the other golf one too, she was quite happy to allow this one to go through early.
Basically, if you don’t like the golf game on Wii sports, you won’t like this. The principle is the same — hold the Wiimote like one of them golf bats and swing it at the ball. But beyond that it’s completely different. You can have both golfers sharing the same ball, you can take part in the Tiger Woods challenge event, you can progress through five years worth of different golfing events and so on and so forth.
You can win trophies for achieving specific things — if you hit six birdies in a row, hit back-to-back eagles, or hit the pin on the green with one of your shots, you get a trophy ball. As you progress through events and challenge points you get experience which can be used to improve your distance hitting, accuracy with irons, putting and so on. You can even get sponsorship deals to wear particular hats.
It’s a serious, and well-developed golf game, that’s perfectly suited for the Wii. It might take you a few rounds to get the hang of it. To give you an example my first round was 22 over par last thursday night, but within about a week’s worth of playing I’d improved sufficiently to win a four-round tournament, finishing two strokes clear on 34 under par after 72 holes.
Like I say, it’s the full-blown game version of the mini-golf that comes with Wii sports. You can play at many of the world’s best courses (I think there are about 18 courses in the game. And it’s better than real golf because:
- You don’t have to worry about the weather.
- You don’t have to wear silly trousers.
- No-one is there to see you scuff one into the bunker again.
- There’s none of that walking about.
- You don’t have to spend lots of money on joining a golf club and then buying those metal bats.
- …and above all, you don’t have to listen to golfers droning on and on about what a fantastic game it is, and how they aren’t dull and futile people with sad little lives at all, honest.
Go on, buy it.
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Cool - thanks.
I may try the golf again - on my only attempt so far I found it very difficult to control the strength of swing particularly for short putts, making it very frustrating. I guess it all comes with practice.