My only real problem with this game is the near-impossibility of figuring out how to raise the level of expertise of my golfer. I have 4 Tiger Woods games, for PS2, now, including 2005 where you just make money and buy expertise. Simple. I just don't get it with 2006. Money doesn't do the trick anymore. I've made over $5 million dollars with my little guy and his expertise level is still mediocre. There's something there that I'm missing.

Anyway, besides that, the 2006 version carries on well from 2005, which is probably my favorite one. 2006 has the new feature: all the golfers now talking, but they quickly get as annoying as the tedium of Fairway Faraday's jokes (a joke can be funny about 3 or 4 times, but not after 300 times). I usually turn all talking off or way down low. What I love, in this version, is the new putting feature. You can now vary the strength of your putt, with your backstroke. Before, it was always... on/off, putt now, click, done. Now there's some subtety to it, like in the pitches. Speaking of which, I like the pitch stroke better in 2005 because it rolls a good length. This one rolls a foot and stops dead.

But, it's fun playing on some new courses, even though the tournament isn't exactly gradual in toughness. I played through, and won, the early tournaments and then the 4th or 5th one was the hardest course in the game, the Greek Isles. That was a bit jarring. But, I like the fact that you can take a 'guest' out on the tournament with you (one of your invented characters). Now it's not so lonely at the top.