The premise of the series is to emulate the sport of golf, and more specifically, the PGA Tour.

On May 22, 2018, HB Studios reached a license agreement with the PGA Tour to include six TPC courses and a PGA Tour career mode in The Golf Club 2019 video game.

The agreement did not include rights to player likenesses, as the PGA Tour maintained an existing license agreement with EA Sports for its own PGA Tour game series.

[1] Later that year, on August 28, 2018, 2K announced that it had acquired the publishing rights to The Golf Club series under its 2K Sports label.

[3] In March 2021, 2K fully acquired HB Studios, the rights to The Golf Club series IP, and the PGA Tour license.