From LauncherWP: LIV vs. PGA battle provides roster wrinkle for EA’s upcoming golf game
When the popular EA Sports golf franchise returns this spring, it will immediately find itself wrestling with a new conundrum that was nowhere on the horizon when the series, formerly and familiarly known as the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise, went dormant in 2015: What to do with PGA golfers leaving for the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour?Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson and Ian Poulter have all appeared as playable characters in EA’s golf series in the past, but their inclusion in the upcoming...
Instead of marketing the game around a massively popular golfer, as it has done in the past with Tiger Woods and, briefly, Rory McIlroy, EA is framing its new offering around its exclusive inclusion of golf’s four major tournaments: The Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship and the PGA Championship. Those tournaments, the most-watched and most notable on the annual golfing calendar, are not run by the PGA Tour, which means each major is able to decide which golfers participate.
“For many players the main draw in golf video games is to create their own character and play against some of the real-life pros on real courses. This continues to be an evolving situation with PGA Tour and LIV Golf and although we’re closely monitoring, it currently hasn’t affected our development of ‘EA Sports PGA Tour.
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