PGA Tour is the collective name of a series of golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 video games published by Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

 and later their EA Sports

EA Sports

EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...

 sub-label from 1990 to 1998, when EA began publishing their golf games with the endorsement of Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...

. After Tiger Woods '99 was released, subsequent titles were named Tiger Woods PGA Tour

Tiger Woods PGA Tour

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR is a series of video games developed and published by Electronic Arts featuring professional golfer Tiger Woods, among other pros on the PGA Tour....

and released yearly.

The series were responsible for several innovations in the genre, such as the now standard three-click swing method, but unlike other games in the EA Sports label, the series were often shadowed by other competitors such as the Jack Nicklaus series, Links

Links (computer game)

Links was the name of a series of golf simulation computer games, first developed by Access Software, and then later by Microsoft Game Studios after Microsoft acquired Access Software. The line of golf games was a flagship brand for Access, and the series spanned several years: from 1990 to 2003...

, Microsoft Golf or The Golf Pro.

Games in the series

• PGA Tour Golf
• Originally released in 1990 for DOS
  DOS
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   computers, 1991 for Mega Drive/Genesis and Macintosh
  Macintosh
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  , SNES
  Super Nintendo Entertainment System
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   and Commodore Amiga and 1993 for Sega Master System
  Sega Master System
  The is a third-generation video game console that was manufactured and released by Sega in 1985 in Japan , 1986 in North America and 1987 in Europe....
  
   and Game Gear.
• PGA Tour Golf II
• Released in 1992 for the Mega Drive/Genesis.
• PGA Tour Golf III
• Released in 1994 for the Mega Drive/Genesis.
• PGA Tour Golf 486
• Released in 1994 for DOS personal computers; the name is a take on Access Software's Links 386.
• PGA European Tour
• Originally released in 1994 for DOS, Amiga and Mega Drive/Genesis, 1995 for CD32
  Amiga CD32
  The Amiga CD32, styled "CD32" , was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released in western Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil. It was first announced at the Science Museum in London, United Kingdom on 16 July 1993, and was released in September of the same year...
  
   and Game Boy
  Game Boy
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  , 1996 for SNES and Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows
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   and a 2000 game of the same name for the Nintendo 64
  Nintendo 64
  The , often referred to as N64, was Nintendo′s third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil...
  
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• PGA Tour 96
  PGA Tour 96
  PGA Tour 96 is a 1995 sports video game originally released for Sega Genesis, Sony PlayStation and 3DO then ported on Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Gear and Game Boy.-Summary:...
  
  
• Released in 1995 for the Mega Drive/Genesis and the SNES (later also for the 3DO, Saturn and PlayStation Systems); it was the first game of the genre to use 3D courses, but had fewer courses and golfers to compensate.
• PGA Tour Pro
• Released in 1997 for Windows; online play only.
• PGA Tour Gold
• Released 1998 for Windows; last title in the series before Tiger Woods' endorsement.