'EA Sports PGA Tour' Is Now Teeing Off For Xbox Series X|S This April

Update: There's been a short delay

by Fraser Gilbert Fri 3rd Mar 2023

Update: EA Sports has announced a short delay to the new PGA Tour game, pushing it back from its original March 24th release date to April 7th, 2023. Here's what EA had to say in an update:

"EA SPORTS PGA TOUR will now launch the week of the Masters Tournament, with an early access release on Tuesday, April 4 and worldwide launch on Friday, April 7. Creating an authentic golf experience has been our goal, and this small shift in release date allows us to add a few final touches to the game that we are very excited to deliver to all of you, including updates to some favorite courses to reflect 2023 designs."

Original story: The first EA Sports game of the year is upon us, as the company has announced today that EA Sports PGA Tour will officially be releasing for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S (along with other platforms) on March 24th, 2023.

EA Sports PGA Tour marks the first golf game from EA since 2015's Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, and will act as a direct competitor to Take-Two's PGA Tour 2K23. It's being advertised as the "exclusive home of the Majors", featuring the Masters Tournament, PGA Championship, U.S. Open Championship and The Open, while also including The PLAYERS Championship, the FedExCup Playoffs, the Augusta National Women's Amateur and much more.

The title will feature 30 courses designed in the Frostbite engine, some of which are the "world’s most exclusive", complete with "the most realistic visuals in any golf game" to date — at least according to EA. As for gameplay, you can expect a Pure Strike swing system with fluid swing mechanics, innovative ball behaviour and lifelike course dynamics, along with a career mode featuring unified RPG progression.

Here's what Cam Weber, EVP and GM at EA Sports, had to say in a press release:

“We're bringing the premier PGA TOUR experience to players around the world with real-world golf data powering incredibly realistic gameplay with every shot, and some of the most iconic courses in the world rendered in painstaking detail."

Pre-orders for EA Sports PGA Tour on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are available starting today, and the game will also be getting a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 10-hour trial starting March 21st, so you can try before you buy!

You can check out a selection of brand-new screenshots below.

Excited for EA Sports PGA Tour on Xbox? Let us know down in the comments.

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.

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themightyant
Thu 19th Jan 2023

That does look lovely. Been partial to a bit of golf gaming since the original PGA Tour Golf on MegaDrive with my Dad, through Tiger Woods PGA Tour, through to Rory McIlroy PGA Tour. High hopes here.

First stop Sawgrass.

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Fortang1980
Thu 19th Jan 2023

What does everyone think of PGA Tour 2k23 so far? I like the gameplay and the fact that you can customize the difficulty in various ways. I'm not too crazy about the club fittings system, I preferred the old system where the actual branded clubs had their own attributes. The graphics, however need a lot of work (even on a series S my golfer looks creepy), so that's one thing this EA sports release can improve on. I remember in the old Rory Mcllroy game actually feeling like I was stuck in the weeds or the sand traps, and that game was from 2015.

I'll definitely try this new release. It looks gorgeous and if they can improve the gameplay and difficulty settings from the old Rory Mallory release then I'll be happy. I just remember the old version being hard to play.

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peterandom
Thu 19th Jan 2023

Oh how I wish there was a button-press swing system as an alternative too. My screwed up wrists can't cope with all that repetitive thumb flicking anymore.

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Titntin
Thu 19th Jan 2023

That looks really good!
I've not played a serious golf game for some time - too many rounds of 'everybody's golf' on PS machines. But this looks like I might really enjoy it.
I'm concerned EA might try and MTX it to death, but I'd like to try this one

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FraserG
Thu 19th Jan 2023

@peterandom I believe they're adding a 3-click system post-launch.

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StylesT
Thu 19th Jan 2023

Even though I find golf boring as sin to watch...I used to really like the tiger wood games back in the day....have been tempted to buy the latest 2k golf game a few times ....might wait for this one to see how it reviews

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Barry_Biscuits
Thu 19th Jan 2023

I'm really interested to see how this looks when it finally comes out. I hope this is a big improvement on their Rory McIlroy installment. The core golf game was very good indeed, but the content built around it was really parsimonious. And the character creation was abysmal too.

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peterandom
Thu 19th Jan 2023

@FraserG yuuusss, that would be amazing. I rinsed old Tiger Woods games back in the day.

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wazza99999
Fri 20th Jan 2023

Looks nice and it'll be nice to play an officially rendered Augusta but I see they've retained the spin control dynamic from the old games. I was really hoping they'd get rid of that. Once you hit the ball you shouldn't be able to affect the spin IMO. I know I could just leave it alone but the temptation would still be there. It's why I like the 2K golf games as it wasn't even an option.