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“It's like baseball without Yankee Stadium, but that still fails in comparison to what this means to golf and to sports,” said Nick Wlodyka, executive producer for what will be named Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. “A lot of people will be drawn to this just for the fact this may be their one and only chance to play Augusta National.”There are replica Omega 1631.78 Ladie's watch only 300 members of Augusta National Golf Club and its 18-hole course is only playable, even to them, for a few months out of the year. Tickets to The Masters are famously difficult to acquire. It's probably the most revered venue in sports that few will ever see for themselves. The course's only appearance in a game had been in the 1990s, in the Japan-only Harukanaru Augusta for SNES, Nintendo 64 and Genesis.

Yet, even as video games pressed into sports' mainstream, they seemed to offer little hope of experiencing Augusta National virtually. Fans had come to assume The Masters, a deeply conservative presentation, were being held out of games because of the golf club's famously protective stance in front of its symbols and traditions.In fact, Augusta replica Omega 1847.73.31 WoMen's watch National Golf Club has regarded video games as a means of fulfilling its mission of growing the game of golf, for some time, Wlodyka said. The wait came largely from EA Sports Tiburon's 80-man development team, knowing they had to hit every detail perfect on the first try.

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2011年1月16日星期日

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