EA Sports PGA Tour Update Adds 3-Click Swing System And Tons More Good Improvements

EA Sports PGA Tour has been updated with a number of welcome improvements, the biggest of which is the promised three-click swing system that harkens back to golf games of old.

The three-click system lets you click once to initiate a swing, click again at the top of the arc, and then once more at the bottom to complete the swing. Hitting the sweet spot is the goal to execute a good swing. To ensure fairness, some online events in EA Sports PGA Tour have rules about which swing types are supported. The standard swing system will stay in the game as an option.

EA Sports PGA Tour's swing system was criticized at launch for being laggy and inconsistent. According to EA Sports, it was always planning to add a three-click swing system after launch, and now it's finally here.

Also with the new title update, EA Sports PGA Tour has a new "Fast Play" option that skips player reactions. Before this, players had to wait and watch golfers ham it up with the crowd before moving on to their next shot.

The new update also lets players turn the putt meter visibility on and off, and it also provides an on/off option for button hints. Additionally, the putting grid will now fade away after the ball hits the green to help with visibility. Also related to putting, the green grid beads will now "flow more accurately" to help players read putts more effectively.

What's more, the new EA Sports PGA Tour update includes new camera fixes. Previously, playing the ball out of certain positions would limit visibility, but that should be sorted out now. And in another response to player feedback, EA Sports PGA Tour now includes a "shot types" screen in the Pause menu that explains different shot types to players to help them learn what to do.

You can read up on all the major EA Sports PGA Tour changes in this blog post.

Beyond these changes, EA said it is "constantly evaluating community feedback" as it looks to make additional improvements to EA Sports PGA Tour over time. Fans have been calling for a proper tutorial mode to help them learn the basics, but EA Sports didn't say if this is being worked on.

The game was released on April 7 during the middle of the biggest professional golf tournament of the year, The Masters. GameSpot's EA Sports PGA Tour review scored the game a 7/10.