EA announced in February they were firing, well they were calling them layoff, almost 700 employees, cutback had to be done somewhere. And they have a new very successful College Football game, they were boasting 5 millions players in the first week alone, I'm sure they have lots of devs there. Golf game are not selling many copies , not even close of football. Probably why 2K keep recycling their game over and over again on their old engine, selling them on last generation consoles.
Personally, I just feel fortunate EA gave us one more golf game with modern graphics, even though the game is far from perfect.