The Masters

1. Wind, the wind needs to be more unpredictable. How many times have you been playing real golf and you take your backswing and the wind dies down or picks up. Or the ball is the air and the wind dies or comes up(like in the movie Tin Cup). This wouldn't happen all the time, but once in a while would be more realistic.

2. Need to see drops of rain in the streams or lakes on the course.

3. Have option to set the spin before or after the shot, this would be more sim-like for players who want more difficulty. Once you set the spin before the shot you, can't change it

4. The target circle should never get as small it is off the tee, should be bigger(part of it should always be in the rough no matter how good you get.

5. Shouldn't be able to spin the ball out of the rough like a shot from the fairway. Three to one ratio would be good. The ratio should get worse depending how bad the rough is.

6. Course conditions should change a little during a round or tournament. One day/start of day the greens would be medium, the next day/later in round they could get harder/faster.

7. Need to know what the temperature on the course is. As the day goes on the course should dry out if it's hotter, players who start day early would have slower conditions as compare to those who start the day late.

8. Should have the green grid for every shot(from the fairway, from the tee on par 3's, pitch shots, etc)

9. Should see the shadow of the blimp from time to time as it flies overhead(see this a lot in the real PGA Tour-maybe even add a camera angle from the blimp)


10. If it's raining too hard the round should be delayed until it dies down or have to finish round the next day, just like on Tour. Would see some events going until Monday.


11. EA, you guys need to partner up w/ some clothing maker(nike, tommy hilfiger, etc) so that we can shopping at an online store. There should be hundreds of different clothes we can buy online.

12. should be able to see your opponent's distance off the tee and to the hole on after every shot they hit just like mine.

13. Created golfers reactions should be based on previous hole performance, coach expectations, and attributes.

14. Shouldn't have to play a shot in online multiplayer mode(match, best ball fourball) when it won't change the outcome of the hole. If i can't do anything to win the hole, hole should be over.

15. Should be able to concede in any offline or online match play game. Should also be able to concede an opponent's putt if they're only a couple feet from the hole.

16. More random crowd reactions, they all shouldn't be doing the same thing.

17. More options in online mode, should be able choose to turn off turbo, spin, or putt preview. Not turn them all but choose which one's I want to play w/, or w/o. for example, could play w/ just turbo but no spin or putt preview. Or More than just amateur or tour mode.

18. Instead of putt preview, there should be a caddie system. You'd start w/ beginner caddies who don't always read the putt correctly or hand you the wrong club. As you progress you could purchase/pay better caddies who remember what clubs you prefer for certain shots and are better at reading greens. There could be beginner, amateur, pro and tour pro caddies and you have to earn them. If you don't like one caddie, you could fire him and pay another caddie from the same level or upgrade to better one. You should be able to your caddie handing you clubs and helping you read the green, kneeling beside you, walking around the green, etc.

19. Live Tourney's- you should only get one chance to play in a Live tourney, once you start, you can't quit and start over to post a better score. If you quit, you have to wait for the next tourney to play another one. this would stop people playing the same round over and over til a get a score they want ot post. You can't start over in any real life tourney, should be same in game.

20. Should earn attributes any online mode, not just live tourney's.

21. There should be custom announcements off the tee that change as you win more tourney's. Would like to hear what city, state I'm from by the tee announcer. It would start out like for example" from San Antonio Texas(your name hear) and would be something like if win more tournaments for example(from San Antonio Texas, five time PGA Tour winner(your name ). The more times you win the announce would be constantly changing.

22. Should be able enter birthday in the game. Would be nice to see my age. My golfer would get older as I play more years on tour.

23. Should be able purchase another five years of tournaments in PGA Tour mode.

24. The further a putt is the smaller the margin of error should get. A putt from w/i ten feet would look beginner level, a put from 30-40ft should have the Tour Pro sized yellow thing as far as how far you have to pull it back.

Wow. Those are alot of suggestions! Good ones in most instances.

Unfortunately, the majority of them are serious updates which won't make it into any Tiger 10 DLC update, if thats what you meant.

Don't get the wrong idea, I am not trying to pass myself off as if I represent EA, but I have been on the testing team at Tiburon twice in the past two years, and we ask for major improvements in realism and career modes as soon as the game gets to us. Problem is...the time constraints of a yearly-released game dictate the development cycle, and so EA can't always get the development team the time they would need to implement these sorts of things. Expect to see alot of these ideas added over the next couple of years of development, as they aren't unthought of, just not implemented during the last year's cycle.

Comments on the specific suggestions you gave:
#8. Why a green grid on every shot? Even if you have played the course before, you can't judge a putting surface that well from the tee even on a par 3. More reasonable would be to give that when one could putt or chip anyways that other shot types also include the grid display. The green grid is present on the putt and chip shots so.. why not when performing a different shot like a pitch??

#11. Our testing team asked for that. Huge money maker right?? That's what we thought but very hard to get something like that actually implemented. Maybe due to the added server load and legal concerns. Everything has to be correctly represented at all times to avoid issues with the vendors, and just think of the fallout if everyone saw the wrong shirt on the thumbnail instead of the for example new Nike shirt, and then sales went down the tubes..

#14. Should be working that way now! Broken is it?!?!?

#18. I personally love that caddy idea!