So let’s say you’ve already finished the MyCareer mode in PGA Tour 2K23 and maybe even played through it a few times to come out on top of the FedEx standings. You’ve explored all of the casual online playlists the game has to offer and defeated enough people to realize just how little it matters until a proper competitive realm is added. Let’s also assume you’ve joined an online society or two and come to the conclusion that there will always be members who consistently end up ahead of you on the leaderboard. But now that you’ve done and all that and seen everything the game has to offer, you’re probably left with something of a hollow feeling as you wonder what else there is to experience within PGA Tour 2K23. These qualifications would make you an ideal candidate to discover the world of TGC Tours in PGA Tour 2K23.
TGC Tours is a third-party website that gathers scores from its online societies in the game across all platforms to allow you to compete against others at your skill level. Dating back to The Golf Club origins of PGA Tour 2K23, this entirely free site that’s run on a volunteer basis has been a welcome supplement to what the games themselves have offered. Though they do their best to walk you through the available options and give step-by-step instructions on how to join the TGC Tours, their site can still be a little overwhelming to newcomers.
To help demystify the process and get you started down the online career path that’s right for you, here’s a bit of a primer on how to get the most out of life on the TGC Tours.
TGC Tours And PGA Tour 2K23
Registration & Qualifying
Once you’ve signed up for TGC Tours, registering for the weekly qualifying event is as easy as clicking a button. You’ll need to remember though to first turn on third-party data access from the settings menu to allow the website to access your scores. All you’ve got to do then is join the TGC Tours (Challenge Circuit) online society in PGA Tour 2K23 and start playing the four rounds that comprise every event. If you score well enough, you’ll receive a tour card and be placed on one of the many flights based on your skill level where you will play your next event. If you don’t score well enough, you’ll have another chance to qualify next week.
Be aware of the required settings before starting your TGC Tours career and get plenty of practice using them ahead of teeing off. Master difficulty can be tricky without a power bar as a guide, especially when putting and hitting partial shots.
Challenge Circuits
With tours that run all the way from CC-A to CC-L and over 100 players in each of those flights, there’s no shortage of competitors to be found. If you perform well enough in any event, you can receive a promotion mark or two. Earning three of these promotion marks over the course of events will see you bumped to the next highest flight. On the flip side, a poor showing in an event will saddle you with a demotion mark. Once you have five demotion marks, you’ll be forced to compete on the next lowest tour.
It’s also possible to shoot so much better than everyone else on your tour that you’ll immediately move up a level. Special promotion events occurring periodically will give you yet another at shot at climbing the ladder. Should you be skilled enough to climb all the way past CC-A, you’ll then find the best players in the game, providing the ultimate challenge on the site’s pro tours.
Beer League
Competing on the challenge circuits or pro tours will require that you use the analog swing stick when playing your rounds. For those who prefer PGA Tour 2K23‘s new three-click swing control option, you’ll have the option of participating instead on the separate Beer League tour and in-game online society. You will have to forego entering the challenge circuits though if you opt for the three-click-friendly Beer league, as players are not permitted to participate in both.
True Sim Tour
Looking for the ultimate challenge? The True Sim Tour offers that to players by turning off nearly all of the visual aids that can help you out when assessing each shot. This means that you’ll have to gauge things like your lie and elevation by your eye only rather than relying on the game to give you some indication. Even when putting, you’ll need to assess the breaks of the green with intuition and hope your gut doesn’t steer you wrong. The only saving grace on the True Sim Tour is that the difficulty is set to pro rather than master, which might lead to slightly fewer instances of tearing your hair out due to an errant shot. The other good thing about it is that you can compete on the challenge circuits and and the True Sim Tour at the same time.
Courses
Should you choose to not actually want to join and compete on the TGC Tours, the website does have other components that can be of some assistance regardless. For instance, they’re diligent about vetting courses from the community and then adding them to their tours should they meet their standards. So if you’re ever hard-pressed for some new courses to play, simply log on to TGC Tours and you’ll find no shortage of quality options from their section devoted to the PGA Tour 2K23 course list. They’ll also be able to tell you whether a course is real or fictional and how difficult you’re likely to find the layout. Keep an eye out on the forums for course design competitions that ultimately only serve to add more quality courses to the game.
Stats
Along with the maintenance of the leaderboards on all of the tours (which includes making sure no funny business is happening), TGC Tours also compiles historical data detailing how you’ve done over the course of your career. Though it can be a little buggy (the site is free after all), your profile stores your scores in any event you compete in and where that puts you compared to the rest of the field. You’ll be able to chart your current and past rankings on the site and how much money you’ve been able to earn. Please note that all earnings are hypothetical only, so don’t send TGC Tours any angry e-mails about being owed money.
