Video Gaming News - January 2004
Redmond, WA (January 8, 2004) - Microsoft today announced that the
Kapalua golf course is now available for download from Xbox Live.
From Microsoft:
Links 2004 now offers gamers a chance to improve their golf game on their
Xbox and in real life. At the same time Mike Weir is teeing off to begin the
official golf season, gamers will also be able to grip it and rip it on the same
course, the breathtaking Plantation Course at Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii after
downloading it via Xbox Live. If a new course wasn’t enough, after downloading
the course, one lucky gamer will win a new set of clubs and three others will
win Suunto Golf Watches with built in GPS functions. Start the new year off
right with a new course and a set of new clubs. The sweepstakes is open to U.S
residents only.
Beginning January 8, golfers will be able to download the Plantation Course
at Kapalua via Xbox Live and four randomly chosen gamers will receive some very
special golf prizes. The course download will be available to Xbox Live
subscribers for $4.99. Gamers will need a valid Xbox Live account and “Links
2004.” Upon purchasing the download, each gamer will be entered into a random
drawing to win a full set of golf clubs including irons, fairway woods, a
driver, a putter, a wedge and a tour bag. Three runners up will win Suunto Golf
watches with GPS functions.
The par 73, 7,263-yard Plantation Course at Kapalua, the opening event on the
professional tour, is the course of the champions. Each January, the course
hosts an elite field of the previous year's winners. The grand scale of the
course designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore unfurls across natural geographic
formations and pineapple plantation fields that take your breath away. The
addition of Kapalua brings the total number of courses in “Links 2004” to ten.
“Links 2004” also features real international courses like St Andrews, Loch
Lomond, Grey Wolf, Four Seasons Resort Aviara and New South Wales just to name a
few.
With the cold weather keeping most golfers in doors for the winter, “Links
2004” offers golfers a variety of exciting options for play. Gamers can compete
in Stroke, Match Play, Nassau, Skins, Stableford, Best Ball and even Alternate
Shot matches. Players can also select the player count, course and course
conditions for their match. In addition, “Links 2004” offers online play via
Xbox Live. Golfers from all over the world are coming together for a round of
golf and “Links 2004” now offers a new “Fast Play” mode, where golfers play
simultaneously (not turn based) and a full round can be completed in a fraction
of the normal time.
“Links 2004” delivers one of the most realistic and competitive golf
experiences available for Xbox. As part of the XSN Sports brand, “Links 2004”
offers gamers the ability to create and compete in their own online golf
tournaments via Xbox Live while keeping track of hard-earned stats on their own
virtual sports page, the centralized website XSNsports.com.
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