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Pick your pleasure, be it power or predictability.

PGA Tour 09's new Club Tuner lets you fiddle the design and physics of your club set to favor performance or ease of use. Fire this up, and you'll appear on a driving range, then choose a driver, wood, iron, or wedge. Take a dozen or so of your best swings with your chosen club, then pop open the tuning menu to modify its power, draw and fade on the ball, adjust loft and spin amounts, or apply bias to correct bad hooks or slices. Hank weighs in afterward, too, suggesting settings based on your playing style, though it's usually better to ignore him and suss things out for yourself. Aside from the game's practice drills, the Club Tuner is probably the most helpful corrective tool the series has ever seen, and one that delivers immediate and substantial results on the fairway.