Welcome to PGA Tour Golf Shootout
It is a game available on Android and iPhone or an emulator. Clubs are based on cards that you can upgrade by spending fake silver coins. These coins are generated by converting gold, playing holes against other players or opening card packs. In-app purchases help increase silver coins faster to upgrade clubs to a maximum of level 12.
Clubs have special abilities that can improve it’s own power, spin and accuracy or it can improve other clubs. By arranging selected clubs in a particular order you can change the way you play holes.
There is also a player level that you can increase by upgrading clubs. As you level up your player you open the ability to get more advanced clubs.
Clubhouses open up after you reach level 3. You can randomly select a clubhouse or enter it’s unique 5 digit code to select a particular clubhouse.
Although not mandatory, joining a clubhouse allows you to receive tips from others for bag setups to increase your skill.
There are four modes of play available to you. Play against others from other clubhouses, solo, duels within your own clubhouse and tournaments.
The Main Screen
Silver Coins
These are what you need to collect to increase your player level in the game. The higher the level you are, the better the rewards and club cards are. All card packs contain Silver Coins. You can convert collected Gold into Silver Coins aswell.
Player Level
This is your overall game level. You increase your player level by upgrading club cards which is done by using your Silver Coins. So the more Silver Coins you gather, the easier it is to upgrade your Club Cards.
Avatar
This is your personal avatar that everyone in the game sees. Clicking the avatar shows your current personal stats.
Paid Bundles
These are bundles that you can purchase to help you earn extra Silver Coins, Gold and club cards.
Speed Up Timed Packs
Clicking this button will show an advertisement. After which will take a few minutes off the time until your timed packs are ready to collect.
Solo Mode
These are predefined challenges you can complete to get extra packs. You need a free space in the Timed Card Pack area to obtain a Card Pack. You can still play solo mode challenges even though you have not free slots in the Timed Card Pack area. You just do not get the pack it offers.
Change Screens
This cycles through the various game screens.
Play Mode
This is where you challenge members from other clubhouses in a one off hole challenge. By doing so you can get Silver Coins, Blue Ribbons, Live Under Par Trophy’s and Card Packs for the Timed Card Pack area. It is the most common playing mode to progress in the game.
Dual Mode
Allows you to challenge other members of your clubhouse at a hole of your choice. You can gain Silver Coins for winning the hole.
Timed Card Packs
There are 4 available slots that get filled with card packs. Clicking a pack will start a timer and depending on the type of pack determines how long you have to wait to open that pack. Club cards inside the packs are random so you do not know what you will get. Use the Speed Up button to make them available quicker. Once you can open a pack, sometimes you will get a free option to upgrade the pack (with advertisement).
Free Rewards
Just a built in feature to give you a few extra Silver Coins, Gold and Card Packs. These reset every 24 hours.
Live Under Par
In Play Mode, for every under par count you get you receive 1 trophy. Eg: Birdie is one trophy, Eagle is 2 trophies and so on. Once you reach 10 trophy’s you can open the card pack for extra Silver Coins and Gold. This resets at midnight each day in your time zone.
Daily Challenges
This allows you to gain a free Card Pack, Silver Coins and Gold if you successfully complete the challenge. Resets each day. You can try multiple times with an advertisement in between.
Ties
A maximum of 18 ties is allowed. When your Timed Pack Area free space is filled with a Timed Card Pack, the ties give you a random opportunity to get a better card pack that holds better rewards.
Gold
You can use Gold to buy Silver Coins or enter Tournaments.
Rank
By winning games in Play Mode you win Fed Ex Points which increases your Rank. Maximum rank is 50. This is reset back to 32 each month. The more Fed Ex points you get, the closer to Rank 50 you start at each month. Click this area to see your current Fed Ex Rank.
Clubhouse Screen
Clubhouse Icon
Click the clubhouse icon to show the members FedEx ranks, rules or leave the clubhouse.
Member Count / Clubhouse Level, Clubhouse Points
This bar across the top just gives you a few indications of what is going on with the clubhouse. Such as total members currently in the clubhouse, current clubhouse level, clubhouse points and power hour countdown.
Dual Results and Replays
If you challenge another clubhouse member to a duel or you are requested a duel, the results and replay shows here where everyone can see it. Press the play button in the middle to watch the hole they played.
Clubhouse Chat Box
This is where you type your chat. It will appear for everyone to see in the same spots where the dual results show. Watch your language here.
Clubhouse Challenge Progress
Press this to be taken to the Clubhouse challenge screen. It shows current members progress for the weekly clubhouse challenge. It also shows the current weekly progress for the tiers.
Clubhouse Name
This is simply the name of the clubhouse you are in. If you wish to invite friends to the clubhouse, use the clubhouse ID. It is located at the top of all pages.
Power Hour Countdown
Power Hour is where you can earn double blue ribbons for one hour in Play Mode. It helps you get to your 50 blue ribbons each week quicker than usual. It currently starts at 7pm for our clubhouse.
Current Clubhouse Tier Level
Each week all the members of the clubhouse earns 1 blue ribbon (2 during power hour) for every Play Mode win. These are all counted together between all members and the idea is to get to 2000 combined blue ribbons. There are 9 tiers to pass to get there. Each tier that gets passed gives you the reward for that tier at the end of the week. So if your clubhouse gets 2000 blue ribbons, you get all rewards from all 9 tiers.
Fed Ex Cup
Fed Ex Cup Explanation
The Fed Ex Cup is made up of Fed Ex Ranks and Points. Points are rewarded during “Play Mode”. Every win you get per hole gains you approx 20 to 35 Fed Ex points depending on the difficulty of the player you are up against. If you lose the hole you lose between the some amount of points. If you both tie there are no points given to you. As you gain more points, you move up the Fed Ex Rank. There is a maximum of 50 ranks. This rank is shown on the main screen (green background part). After you get to the maximum rank of level 50 your Fed Ex points keep calculating higher and higher as you win more games in “Play Mode”(no limit). When you start getting around 50,000 to 80,000 Fed Ex points you could very well start to enter the top 200 players currently playing the game. There are no extra rewards for getting this many Fed Ex points however you do get a banner that shows at the bottom of your avatar showing your current global rank within that top 200 (eg: 1st to 200th). Below are a few images showing where you see your rank, points and current global ranking.
Fed Ex Rank
This shows you the current rank. There is only a maximum of 50 ranks. Win in “Play Mode” to get to Rank 50. Press it to see more information about your current rank and points.
Winning Fed Ex Points
Winning in “Play Mode” shows you the above popup. You can see in this image the player won 28 Fed Ex points for winning the hole.
Player Stats
On the main page (green background) at the top left is your chosen avatar. If you press on that you are brought to this page, your stats page. At the bottom left it shows your current global ranking for the month. It resets each month. All members of the clubhouse can see your stats however they cannot see your global ranking.
Fed Ex Points Page
To get to this page you need to click the Fed Ex rank on the top right hand corner of the main page. At the top of this page is your current Rank (in this case its rank 50). Just underneath is your total Fed Ex Points. At the bottom shows you what rank you will start at next month. The more points (wins) you get in “Play Mode” the better your rank will be next month. It usually takes around 22500 points to get back to Rank 50. When you get over Rank 30 you are in the Pro Ranks. More rewards are given from this point on. You will never reset below Rank 30 at the end of each month.