

The agreement with HB Studios comes after a similar long-term licensing agreement between the PGA Tour and Electronic Arts came to an end. According to EA, the split is a mutual decision. In October 2013, EA's partnership with Woods and a licensing agreement with Augusta National Golf Club reached an end. However, when CEO John Riccitiello resigned March 2013, this plan was dropped to save costs, the sources said. That's according to Kotaku sources, Electronic Arts reportedly planned to outsource Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15 and give the in-house team at EA Tiburon two years to make Tiger Woods PGA Tour 16 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The deal with Woods was worth $6.2 to 7 million a year at the height of his 15 years at EA Sports. Starting in 1998, Tiger Woods was the star and face of the series.


The series was responsible for several innovations in the genre, such as the now standard three-click swing method. In October 2013, EA ended its relationship with Woods, being replaced with Rory McIlroy, then top golfer in the world, who became the new title athlete of the franchise, known as Rory McIlroy PGA Tour.

IOMO also produced versions of the game for mobile phones for the 2002, 2004, and 2005 editions. Following the Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf release, subsequent titles were named Tiger Woods PGA Tour and released yearly.Īlthough EA Sports developed most games in the series internally, some SKUs have come from outside developers including the first edition, Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf, which Adrenalin Entertainment developed in conjunction with EA for the PlayStation and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001 for the PlayStation, which was developed by Stormfront Studios. In 1998, EA began publishing their golf games with the endorsement of Tiger Woods. PGA Tour, and other notable courses (such as those that have hosted majors). The series primarily features courses featured on the U.S. PGA Tour is a series of golf video games developed and published by Electronic Arts - and later their EA Sports sub-label - since 1990. MS-DOS, Sega Genesis, Amiga, Macintosh, SNES, Master System, Game Gear, PlayStation, Game Boy, 3DO, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, GameCube, Mac OS, N-Gage, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Mac OS X, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
