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‘Too Bad’: Latest PGA Tour 2K23 Game Announcement Regarding Nelly Korda Receives Mixed Emotions From Fans

Published 03/17/2023, 6:10 AM EDT

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With the Masters Tournament scheduled for the upcoming month, there are a lot of other things happening in the golf world. While fans love watching their favorite stars on the field, they can also play video games with these golfers’ avatars, thanks to PGA Tour 2K. And to raise the excitement, LPGA Tour ace, Nelly Korda, is all set to be part of this innovative project!

Nelly Korda joins PGA Tour 2K23 as a video game character

If you’re confused about what is going on, you need to know about the PGA Tour 2K project! Heading towards innovation in the era of Artificial Intelligence, the American Tour is currently up to something that has made golf fans extremely excited! One of the most successful projects of the league, PGA Tour 2K, is a series of video games that will let fans play golf sports providing them with a real-life-like experience.

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The tour is very excited about working further on the project, and so are the fans! And to bring things to life on an even greater level, they use all kinds of advanced techniques to involve famous professional golfers in the project. Developed by HB Studios, PGA Tour 2K23 recently called Nelly Korda to their studio to record her facial expressions, body language, and whatnot!

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They recently shared a video of the golfer sitting on a chair surrounded by several cameras from all sides. And the purpose was to record and analyze all her movements, even the smallest details, to make sure that the fans get a rich experience while playing the games. “Welcome to the @2K family, @NellyKorda! Exciting times ahead!” they wrote in the caption.

Fans react to Nelly Korda’s collaboration with PGA Tour 2K

Fans are giving all kinds of reactions to the recent video of Nelly Korda at the PGA Tour 2k studios. With her becoming an addition to the professional golfers in video games, fans are extremely excited to watch how things turn out. However, despite the big news, there were several fans who were not very happy with the existing features and condition of the PGA Tour 2K games! Here’s what some of them had to say:

“Too bad you guys don’t actually use the technology the rival game is using to record every golfers unique swing which is so important in golf.”

“Fix the game. From dropped matches to lagging swings…putter stuttering to go back, to Society. Just fix the game.”

“The 1st iteration of ‘the club’ played better than all its successors. How did things manage to get worse?”

“Whooooo caresssssss. 0 disrespect towards Nelly she’s awesome but the game needs things to be fixed and this is the update we get”

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“Nice! Great to see Nelly added to this game and the continued updating of in-game content.”

“ABOUT TIME!!!”

“this is AWESOME”

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Well, it surely appears that the games need some real improvement more than the need of adding new players. But keeping in mind Nelly Korda’s huge fan following, she is definitely a worthy addition to the project. What are your thoughts about this collaboration? Let us know in the comments below.

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Joydeep Singh

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Joydeep Singh is a Golf writer at EssentiallySports. Having completed his Bachelor's degree in Business Management, he possesses a writing experience of more than four years now. Having picked up on following golf for quite some time now, his favorite is the legendary Tiger Woods, whose games he just does not miss.
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Manaal Siddiqui

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