Other than access to the premium courses, free players can do everything else. Andrews and Sheshan, but EA says it will soon start rotating the 'open' courses. As for what you get by upgrading your membership to premium level ($9.99 a month or $59.99 for the year), you can play any course available, not just the two 'open' courses EA has designated as free courses.

You can either choose do a career mode where you play by yourself or challenge other players (you can meet up with friends online and organize your own tournaments).

A running IM feed on the left side of the screen allows you to interact with other players, talk trash, or just give a running commentary of how well-or badly-you're playing. You can move from hole to hole in a few minutes and play a round in around half an hour (at least at the beginner levels). At least initially, you can only do a very limited amount of customization to your avatar (one of the game's shortcomings right now), but once you get out on the course, the graphics are pretty decent and the game plays smoothly-and quickly. To get started playing all you need to do is go to the Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online Web site, sign up for an account, and you'll be good to go after a quick setup process (the browser-based game works on both Macs and Windows machines). In case you haven't heard already, the best thing about it is that it's free-or at least a good portion of it is-as EA Sports has brought the freemium model to its popular golf franchise. While everybody these days seems to have some sort of diverging opinion on Tiger Woods, the man, it's pretty hard not to really like Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, the video game. Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online has surprisingly good graphics for a browser-based game.

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