EA Sports released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 in North America on August 26, 2008. The game shipped for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Wii and PlayStation Portable. The source also lists iOS as a platform, though it gives no release date for that version.
The developers were Exient Entertainment and EA Orlando. Wikipedia’s platform split adds EA Tiburon for the PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 versions, with Exient Entertainment on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The Wii release carried the title Tiger Woods PGA 09 All Play.
Trailer, via Tiger Woods PGA TOUR VideoGames.
Two Studios, Five Platforms
The PS3 version takes advantage of the Sixaxis controller, according to the source. That is the only hardware note attached to any build.
The game is listed as a simulator and a sport, played in third person, with single player, multiplayer and split-screen modes. Those modes appear across the line on paper.
What the Disc Offers
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 is non-fiction in theme. No invented tour, no fictional rivals — the PGA Tour and the players who fill it.
The modes cover the ground a golf game needs: a solo career, head-to-head multiplayer, and split-screen for two players in the same room. The source lists split-screen as a mode and says nothing more about it. Whether it plays well is not established here.
The Release Schedule
| Date | Platform | Studio | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 26, 2008 | Xbox 360 | EA Tiburon (per Wikipedia) | North America launch |
| August 26, 2008 | PlayStation 3 | EA Tiburon (per Wikipedia) | Sixaxis controller support |
| August 26, 2008 | PlayStation 2 | Exient Entertainment | — |
| August 26, 2008 | Wii | EA Tiburon (per Wikipedia) | Titled Tiger Woods PGA 09 All Play |
| August 26, 2008 | PlayStation Portable | Exient Entertainment | — |
| No date given | iOS | — | — |
Five platforms on one date. iOS sits on the list without one.
The Sixaxis Controller
The PS3 build’s Sixaxis support is the one version-specific detail the source provides. The PS3 version takes advantage of the controller. What that means for the swing, and whether it works, the source does not say.
That is the whole of the hardware story. The Wii version is titled Tiger Woods PGA 09 All Play. The source does not describe motion controls for it, and no other build gets a control note.
Where the Package Lands
The PSP and PS2 versions came from Exient Entertainment, per Wikipedia’s split. The source does not say how those versions differ from the others beyond developer and platform.
The iOS version appears on the platform list with no release date and no further detail. The source does not evaluate it.
Seven outlets aggregated to a 7.9 out of 10 for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 on IGDB’s critic aggregate. That number is the only quality measure the source supplies, and it covers the game as a whole rather than any single platform.
What the source actually establishes is narrow: a 2008 golf release, five platforms on one date, an iOS listing with no date, two named developers, and a Wikipedia split that assigns three console versions to EA Tiburon. The rest — how the Sixaxis swing feels, whether the PSP port holds up, what the iOS build plays like — is not in the record here. Anyone repeating the wider claims about this release is working from something other than the material in front of us.
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