Check out the official reviews from the big boys gathered here for your reading pleasure:

“Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for Wii is the definitive golf game. It’s filled to the top with content, sports spectacular controls enhanced by MotionPlus, and includes great Disc Golf and online modes. Seriously, this is an amazing package made all the better by the peripheral pack- in. Just as impressive, though, is that this year’s effort is so intuitively enjoyable that it has, in my experience, transcended the golf category altogether to become one of those rare Wii games that I will confidently recommend to anybody. Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Boom Blox and now Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 — these are all games that are spectacular because of the very technology that makes Wii great. Like Wii Sports, Woods 10 could not be made as well for any other system. Get out there and support this excellent sequel — a standout effort that will surely be in competition for sports game of the year” ~ IGN : 9.0

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“Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 has turned last year’s great near-miss into an all-time classic. Improved motion-control support, more game features, and expanded online modes make it incredibly immersive and authentic. Golf games just don’t get any better than this.

Tiger Woods 10 for the Wii is as close as you can get to a golf course without paying green fees.” ~ Gamespot : 9.0

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“With the addition of MotionPlus, Woods 10 on the Wii is a fantastic golfing videogame, besting its console counterparts because of its control options, extra courses, party game modes, and Frolf. Not to mention, it’s casual friendly for anyone to play, but with enough difficulty options for the hardcore to stay interested. It’s almost hard to imagine it getting better than this for the foreseeable future.” ~ 1UP : 91/100

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Enjoy the Video!

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Wii MotionPlus Walkthrough

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Unlock sponsorship items and players. : At the menu, select “Options” and the “Passwords”.
[Password > Effect]
SnakeKing > Acquire all Cobra gear
THREE STRIPES > Unlock all Adidas items.
SHOJIRO > Unlock all Bridgestone items.
JUST SHAFTS > Unlock all Grafalloye items.
INTHEGAME > Unlock all Level 3 EA Sports items.
MACTEC > Unlock all Macgergor items.
RIHACHINRZO > Unlock all Mizuno items.
JUSTDOIT > Unlock all Nike items.
JANNARD > Unlock all Oakley items.
LIGHTNING > Unlock all PGA Tour items.
SOLHEIM > Unlock all Ping items.
GAMEFACE > Unlock all players in team play.
GUYS ARE GOOD > Unlock all Precept items.
MR ADAMS > Unlock all Taylormade items.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Game Cheat Passwords: Enter the following by choosing “Passwords” from the “options” menu. When you press enter, you’ll hear a unique sound if you’ve entered them correctly. (If you can’t hear the confirmation sound, turn down the in game music to make it more noticeable.)
[Password > Effect]
PROSHOP > All Clubs Unlocked
GAMEFACE > Unlock All Golfers
NOTJUSTTIRES > Unlock Bridgestone Items
THREESTRIPES > Unlock Buick Items
CLEVELAND > Unlock Cleveland Golf Items
SNAKEKING > Unlock Cobra Items
INTHEGAME > Unlock EA Items
JUSTSHAFTS > Unlock Grafalloy Items
JLINDEBERG > Unlock J.Lindeberg Items
RIHACHINRIZO > Unlock Mizuno Items
JUSTDOIT > Unlock Nike Items
GUYSAREGOOD > Unlock Precept Items

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play
Passwords: Enter on the Password screen, you will hear a unique sound when entered correctly.
[Password > Effect]
1) CEPHALUS > Big Head Spectator Mode
2) SWOOSH > nike items unlocked
3) THREESTRIPES > Unlock the Adidas sponsored items
4) BERTHA > Unlock the Calloway sponsored items

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Enter in the password section in the options menu.

[Password > Effect]
1) eltigre > Unlocks TW Golf items in pro shop

Enjoy! Compiled from Games FAQs.

When the Wii version of the game came out, Woods welcomed a controller that players swing like a golf club, but he saw room for improvement. “It was too easy,” he says. “If you rotated the [club] face, nothing happened. Now if you rotate your wrists, it changes your shot. The ball goes to the right if you under-rotate, which is what happens in a golf swing.”

Check out the full write up via: Fast Company

Sorry for the long break in blogging. I had a very busy year-end with little time to enjoy my golf on and off the green. However I did managed to get on the green over the holiday season. So I’ll leave u with a little nugget that I saw on my golf cart.

Happy new year Wii golfers!

Via: Infendo

If you missed the original viral video by Levinator25, do check it out below as well!

That is using social media for you!

Edit: Here are a few more great trailers and game play videos for you!

The new 1 to 1 swing with the developers.

Official E3 Presentation

Club Tuner feature

Hank gives you tips!

Just a gentle reminder, that Tiger Woods PGA 09 will be out this month. According to Gamespot, it will be launched August 26 in North America, and August 29 in Europe to be exact.

So it looks like us PAL owners will not t have to wait that long for our copy!

I wait with bated breath!

EDIT: Tiger plugs the game in his August newsletter from TigerWoods.com

Later this month, we’re going to launch our new video game: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. We’ve made some exciting changes, like the new “true one-to-one golf swing,” that I really think you’re going to like. In fact, the game just recently won the Best Sports Game of E3 2008 for the Wii. ~ Tiger Woods

Get well soon Tiger, we miss you!

play golf, I’m lousy at it, but I play golf. The main reason to why I haven’t really improved, a least I think so, is that I only play 3-5 times a year. The last couple of years I have played to a handicap around 48, which I’m not entirely satisfied with.

But in november 2007 we got a Nintendo Wii at work, so people can play in their lunchbreak and after work. I have played a lot of golf on the Wii, and on the Wii like in real life, I have a really bad slice. So game after game on the Wii, during the winter, I have tried to correct this slice, and I have succeeded. So a little month a go, when I was out playing my first real game of golf this year, to my big surprise, I did in real life as I did on the Wii, and my slice was almost gone. Now I have played a couple of more games, and each time to a handicap around 40 and almost without slicing. With this in mind, I have played a lot of Golf on the Wii for the last week, to prepare for the next game of real golf, which will be on sunday. This time I have focused on controlling my swing speed, to be more persistent. Hopefully It pays off.

Looks like there is evidence that Wii Golf does help your real golf game! Best of luck Bo and let us know how it goes.

Via: Bo Henriksens’s Weblog

That’s the conclusion of a study sponsored by The American Council on Exercise (ACE), which has just announced it’s research findings.

Conducted exclusively by University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Exercise and Health Program, the study, released Tuesday, shows that playing the five Wii games – golf, tennis, baseball, bowling and boxing – will burn anywhere from 3.9 to 10.2 calories per minute.

“While the caloric benefit was rather modest, the take home message from this study, as the researchers indicated, is that playing these games on Wii is better than sitting around,” said Thayne Munce, Ph.D, a professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition.
The study called for eight men and eight women between the ages of 20 to 29 years old to play the Wii games as they would be playing the sports in reality. The participants played the games for 10 minute intervals, and researchers recorded their heart rates and oxygen uptake every minute.

According to the study’s results, boxing burned the most calories, compared to the other games – 216 calories for 30 minutes of play. Wii Boxing is also intense enough to qualify as a way to improve or maintain cardiorespiratory endurance, according to the Indianapolis-based American College of Sports Medicine.

At the low end, 30 minutes of Wii Golf only burns 117 calories.

However, playing a real game of golf or boxing will burn more calories, experts said, and the skills used for playing Wii sports and playing real sports are not necessarily the same.

“While many of the Wii Sports games are fairly realistic, one should not mistake the skill set required to be successful in these games with the real thing,” Munce said. “I don’t think that anyone is going to become an all-star baseball player by skipping practice and playing their Wii.”

On the upside, Wii Sports are a great alternative for people, like senior citizens, who cannot play sports because of physical ailments.

“If we can get these older people to engage in a variety of movement activities, we can help them maintain better joint mobility,” said Cedric X. Bryant, Ph.D., chief science officer at ACE.

Interestingly enough, adults are more frequently the purchasers and players of Wii and its games, according to Chicago video game merchants.

“I don’t see many kids coming in here looking for Wii games,” said Cordero McCalure, an 18-year-old senior game adviser at the GameStop in the South Loop. Since the Wii was released in 2006 – and sold with the Wii Sports game as a package – more adults have purchased it than kids, he said.

Best Buy employees in the South Loop agree that more adults play with the Wii than do kids, but it’s hard to tell if adults are buying it for themselves or for their kids.

Nintendo’s newest Wii gadget, Wii Fit, is specifically targeted to adults as a workout device. And ACE is already researching its potential health benefits.

Even though kids are the stereotypical video game users, it appears that Wii games which promote physical activity are ultimately more popular with adults.

Xbox and Playstation 3 are more popular with kids, according to McCalure, because, “You can sit down and play instead of doing all the movements.”

“Kids don’t want to play the Wii,” he said.

Via: Medill Reports

Nintendo’s upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space. The Wii MotionPlus accessory attaches to the end of the Wii Remote and, combined with the accelerometer and the sensor bar, allows for more comprehensive tracking of a player’s arm position and orientation, providing players with an unmatched level of precision and immersion. Every slight movement players make with their wrist or arm is rendered identically in real time on the screen, providing a true 1:1 response in their game play. The Wii MotionPlus accessory reconfirms Nintendo’s commitment to making games intuitive and accessible for everyone. Nintendo will reveal more details about the Wii MotionPlus accessory and other topics Tuesday morning at its E3 media briefing.

Via: MTV Multiplayer