At this point I think it?s safe to call The Golf Club an actual sports franchise. Ever since cementing 2K as publisher earlier this year, the hits have just kept on coming. The crowning achievement was securing the rights to the PGA Tour back in February. This is a gigantic get for HB Games, especially when considering that the PGA license has been locked up by Electronic Arts in one form or another since 1990. As exciting it may be, the lingering question still remains: has The Golf Club 2019 actually earned its tour card"
De-Toured
While this is an officially endorsed PGA Tour product, a cursory glance at the title denotes that this is far from a spiritual successor to the PGA Tour series popularized during the Tiger Woods era. The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA Tour implies two specifically unique components: The Golf Club core experience and the additional PGA Tour themed pieces. It is hard to say why this segregation is necessary, but the delineation between the two brands is immediately apparent. The extent of the licensing agreement consists of a handful of courses from the actual tour, including the like of TPC Sawgrass and TPC Scottsdale. Amusingly enough, when I was playing through a round with one of my visiting siblings, we were actually able to pinpoint that a specific course we were playing was TPC Scottsdale, thanks to the familiar course design. That said, the limited palette of art assets still resulted in the six premium destinations suffering from the...