Rory McIlroy PGA Tour

Additionally, the game introduces new swing modes and assists, Golf Channel personalities and in-game presentation, and an arcade-style challenge mode. Tour received mixed reviews; although critics acknowledged the game's increased graphics quality and realism over previous installments in the franchise, the game was criticized primarily for its regressions over previous entries in the franchise, including a small number of available courses on launch, and the removal of various modes and features that had been present in previous PGA Tour games; additional courses, and some of these missing features, were added back in subsequent updates.

• Title — Rory McIlroy PGA Tour • Developer — EA Tiburon • Publisher — Electronic Arts • Series — PGA Tour • Engine — Frostbite 3 • Platforms — PlayStation 4 Xbox One • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

EA Sports' PGA Tour franchise was placed on a hiatus following its 2013 release, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14; in October 2013, EA announced that the game would also be the final installment in the series co-branded with Tiger Woods. At its E3 press conference in June 2014, the company presented footage of the next game in the series under the working title EA Sports PGA Tour. In March 2015, Rory McIlroy became a new title athlete, naming the game Rory McIlroy PGA Tour. It was scheduled to be released in June 2015, before being delayed to July 14, 2015. Unlike other recent EA Sports titles, which were unified around the Ignite engine, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour utilizes the Frostbite 3 engine, originally developed by DICE for the Battlefield franchise. The Frostbite engine allows an entire course to be rendered all at once on a single map rather than on a hole-by-hole basis, reducing loading times between holes. Executive producer Brent Nielsen explained that Frostbite 3 was tailored towards "creating complex, lifelike environments", and that it allowed the team to "recreate some of the world's most beautiful courses, as well as create some new ideas of our own." Producer Ryan Ferwerda explained that the changes necessitated a complete rebuild of the game from scratch. Rory McIlroy PGA Tour features NBC Sports' Golf Channel in-game presentation, with NBC Sports' Golf Channel commentators Rich Lerner and Frank Nobilo replacing CBS Sports' Jim Nantz and David Feherty as the game's commentators.

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour contains new features, assists and gameplay changes. New Backswing Meter, Aiming Arc, and putt read features were added to assist players in making accurate shots. Three main swing modes are offered; "Arcade", which uses the analog sticks to swing and allows application of spin to the ball in mid-air, the traditional "3-Click", and "Tour"—an advanced mode similar to Arcade mode, but with no assists enabled at all and higher sensitivity. Players can toggle individual assists to customize their experience. The usage of Frostbite 3 provides more realistic physics and interactions between the ball and aspects of the environment, such as accounting for firmness and grass length, and shooting balls through plants and trees. As an entire course is now treated as a single map, errant shots can also land and be played from areas that were previously considered out-of-bounds and incurred penalties. A new mode, Night Club Challenge, requires players to make shots at targets in a nightclub-inspired setting. Some features were removed in comparison to PGA Tour 14; amateur (aside from a Web.com Tour event for earning the player's PGA Tour membership) and women's events were removed, as well as certain alternate modes (such as Stableford scoring) beyond stroke and match play, the ability to play individual or certain types of holes (only back 9, front 9, or 18 can be played), online Country Clubs Quick Tournament, weather, and career schedules.

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour includes eight real-world courses on-disc; Bay Hill, Chambers Bay, the Old Course at St. Andrews, Royal Troon, TPC Boston, TPC Sawgrass, Whistling Straits, and Wolf Creek. TPC Scottsdale was a pre-order exclusive. Additional courses will be added through downloadable content. Four fantasy courses are also offered, including one based on the Battlefield 4 map Paracel Storm, the Grand Canyon, and a nightclub-themed course for the game's new challenge mode. Due to an expired license, Augusta National and the Masters Tournament do not appear in the game, although an EA representative has suggested that the course may be re-introduced as DLC in the future.

Free updates were released to add additional features to the game. TPC Scottsdale, East Lake Golf Club, the fantasy course Treasure Island, and Quail Hollow Club were added in August, September, October, and November 2015, respectively. The Quail Hollow update also re-introduced alternate shot, best ball, four ball, and skins play. Henrik Stenson and Dustin Johnson were also added as playable characters in October and November 2015 respectively. PGA West Stadium Course was added in January 2016. In March 2016, Oakmont Country Club (host of the 2016 U.S. Open) was added, as well as updated commentary relating to it. An update in May 2016 added Banff Springs, a recurring course from previous PGA Tour games. The update also introduced changes to the behavior of majors in career mode, which now alternate between one of two included courses that had recently hosted it, such as Chambers Bay (2015) and Oakmont for the U.S. Open, St. Andrews (2015) and Royal Troon (2016) for the Open Championship, and Whistling Straits (2015) and Quail Hollow (2017) for the PGA Championship.

The online services shut down on January 16, 2025. This made users unable to access any online multiplayer features of the game.