“We’re thrilled that the LPGA Tour is coming back to EA Sports PGA Tour especially with the inclusion of a major global tournament like the Amundi Evian Championship,” said Brian Carroll, the LPGA’s senior vice president of global media distribution, in a press release. “EA Sports has done a great job in continuing to expand female representation in the various modes throughout the game and featuring women’s golf in an authentic and modern way.”

It will not be the first time female pros are represented in a golf video game. Past iterations of EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchises featured the likes of Annika Sorenstam, Natalie Gulbis, Lexi Thompson, Stacy Lewis and Paula Creamer. The most recent iteration of the Tiger Woods video game (2014) also included a mode in which LPGA players could play on the LPGA Tour.

In the new game, which is set to hit shelves in the spring of 2022, gamers also will have the ability to create a female player with a newly overhauled Create-A-Player feature. Right from the start, your player will be able to compete in a number of LPGA-themed challenges, amateur tournaments and professional events like the Evian.

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As of now, only one player on the roster of female pros has been announced: Jin Young Ko, the former World No. 1 and 2019 Evian Championship winner.

“I’m beyond excited to be included as one of the female golfers in EA Sports PGA Tour,” Ko said in a press release. “Women’s golf is growing so fast and having us included in this game is a great opportunity to reach fans all around the world. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.”

The Evian Championship will be one of five majors featured in the game, joining the four men’s majors, including the Masters, which returns to the virtual world for the first time since Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2014.

The game will also include GOLFTV and Sky Sports broadcaster Iona Stephen as its first female on-course commentator.

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The tour announced on Monday an agreement with lesser-known developer HB Studios to produce the tour’s licensed video game starting in 2019. The game will be called “The Golf Club 2019,” keeping the name from the developer’s previous golf game “The Golf Club,” which included the ability to design your own golf courses. According to GameSpot.com, all existing Rory McIlroy PGA Tour games will be pulled off the shelves, but an EA Sports representative also told the gaming website: “We continue to have an ongoing relationship with the PGA Tour.” It’s unclear what that might mean for the future, but for the time being, the licensing agreements have not been renewed for a new game this year.

“The Golf Club 2019” game will be available in August on Playstation 4, XBOX One and on PCs and will feature a career mode, allowing players to go through the path to the PGA Tour—from Q-School, to the Web.com Tour, a 32-tournament season on the PGA Tour, and if you make it—the FedEx Cup playoffs. According to the release, only TPC-sanctioned courses are available to play in the game, which include TPC Sawgrass’ Players Stadium course, TPC Scottsdale (Stadium), TPC Boston, TPC Southwind, TPC Deere Run and TPC Summerlin. It appears that this deal does not include being able to use the likeness of players, which previous EA Sports games included, enabling users to play with some of the tour’s best players, including Tiger Woods, obviously.

It’s unclear what to make of EA Sports’ comment, saying that the relationship between the PGA Tour and the gaming giant has not ended, but perhaps there will be another EA Sports game down the road. With Tiger Woods back to playing a full tour season, we’d imagine another Tiger Woods game would be pretty appealing to all parties involved.

Here’s a preview video provided by HB Studios and the PGA Tour:

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