PGA TOUR announces GOLF+ as its exclusive virtual reality golf game - PGA TOUR

“Official Virtual Reality Golf Game of the PGA TOUR” to integrate PGA TOUR tourney courses into GOLF+ opening with TPC Scottsdale and TPC Sawgrass aboriginal successful 2023

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA TOUR and GOLF+, the starring VR play crippled successful the world, contiguous announced a semipermanent woody that makes GOLF+ the “Official Virtual Reality Golf Game of the PGA TOUR.” The statement volition besides spot the instauration of caller PGA TOUR crippled experiences wherever GOLF+ players volition beryllium capable to acquisition exclusive, interactive contented and features tied to real-world PGA TOUR tournaments.

Using a Meta Quest VR headset, GOLF+ users volition beryllium capable to vie connected prime TPC Network play courses and different PGA TOUR tourney courses opening with TPC Scottsdale and TPC Sawgrass aboriginal successful 2023. These in- crippled PGA TOUR experiences volition connection players exclusive tourney contention wrong the game. Additional tourney courses volition beryllium added successful the coming years to articulation the GOLF+ roster of world-class venues.

“The PGA TOUR is excited to enactment with GOLF+, the starring play crippled successful the emerging VR gaming market,” said Len Brown, PGA TOUR Chief Legal Officer, and EVP, Licensing. “The GOLF+ VR level is simply a forward-thinking mode to bask the athletics that is appealing to gamers and golfers of each levels, and an innovative mode for radical to play the crippled of play and turn the athletics globally. The TOUR volition enactment the concern with caller courses, ShotLink powered by CDW data, changeable trails and video highlights from PGA TOUR competitions.”

GOLF+ volition person rights to usage PGA TOUR marks, rights to advertise wrong TOUR media and TOUR spouse platforms, positive contented and video rights allowing GOLF+ to make unique, in-game experiences.

“We look guardant to moving with the PGA TOUR arsenic it provides the quality to contiguous unparalleled interactive tourney experiences to our players successful VR,” said Ryan Engle, Co-Founder and CEO of GOLF+. “We are some committed to utilizing innovative exertion and interactive experiences to scope caller golfers worldwide and turn the crippled we love.”

Golfers and different athletes who person joined GOLF+ arsenic investors see Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, World Golf Hall of Famer Ben Crenshaw, Tom Brady, Steph Curry and Mike Trout.

“Beyond providing 1 of the champion VR sports experiences successful the world, GOLF+ volition present connection a caller mode for fans to bask the excitement of the PGA TOUR,” said Rory McIlroy. “This exertion has the powerfulness to not lone bring caller radical to the crippled of golf, but besides germinate the mode the PGA TOUR is seen and experienced by golfers and gamers everywhere.”

"When I was a kid, I ever dreamed of making it to the PGA TOUR and investigating my crippled wrong the ropes against the champion players successful the world,” added Jordan Spieth. “It’s large that fans and aboriginal TOUR pros are going to beryllium capable to usage this level to get a sensation for what it’s similar to vie connected the PGA TOUR.”

Designed to beryllium complementary to accepted golf, the GOLF+ VR acquisition removes emblematic barriers specified arsenic clip constraints, greens fees and upwind to let users to play anywhere, anytime. For those who person ne'er picked up a nine successful the existent world, it offers a stress-free mode to learn, play and signifier astatine their ain pace. Avid golfers tin bask realistic physics and life-like recreations of immoderate of the astir iconic courses successful the world. In little than a twelvemonth since launch, the platform's hundreds of thousands of golfers person played implicit six cardinal rounds connected the platform.

GOLF+ is presently disposable connected the Meta Quest 2 level for $29.99. The crippled comes modular with archetypal people designs, Topgolf, and a mini play acquisition called Pro Putt. Players tin adhd the famed Pebble Beach, Pinehurst No.2, The Ocean Course astatine Kiawah Island and Wolf Creek Golf Club arsenic in-app purchases. GOLF+ allows for some single-player and multiplayer options, making it perfect for solo signifier oregon a societal round.