Whether your video golfing ability classifies you as a tour-hardened pro or weekend duffer Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 provides ample opportunity to refine and enhance your strengths. Gone is the swing power meter in earlier incarnations in favor of a new wrinkle from EA Sports--Total Precision Swing. Essentially the onscreen golfer is your real-time power meter as you now have the ability to control his or her entire motion from backswing to follow-through. Power drives insane-angle slices fading hooks and more can all be executed with the proper touch. And while the Total Precision Swings learning curve is steep it does add new flavor to the game. Among the new game modes are the Tiger Challenge and Speed Golf. In the Tiger Challenge you compete as Woods against a progression of 17 players--some PGA Tour players and some original EA Sports characters--to earn rewards and the right to unlock hidden golfers. You can also unlock individual holes on Tigers Dream 18 a course designed by Woods himself. Speed Golf features a fast and furious race to the hole in which you can either compete by yourself or split-screen against another player. is earned in head-to-head competition by finishing the hole first and through bonuses for such things as teeing off first and hitting a longer drive than your opponent. Any earned is subsequently drained from your opponents total creating all-out mayhem on the course. Other game modes offer stroke match and tournament play skins scenarios and practice. Also Play Now mode offers a helpful tutorial that you must complete before moving on to further options. Visually the games many courses and related elements depict a stunning near-live experience. From the well-kept fairways and greens of Pebble Beach and the TPC at Sawgrass to the otherworldly dazzle of Copperhead Canyon the courses come alive with rainy mists murky fogs and glowing sunsets. Also enhancing