PGA Tour unable to start a private match

Me and my friends have not been able to get into any private matches. When we chose to start the match the screen would go black and then boot us back to the main menu. It did it multiple times with separate parties. 

PLUS. How is it only stroke play?! That may be a deal breaker. This game is much better than 2k in the career mode but most of the reason I play golf games is to game with my friends. Plus I’m reading that you can’t even watch each others shots? Huge disappointment.

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Product: EA SPORTS PGA TOUR
Platform:Xbox Series X
Summarize your bug When playing a private match on the series x, we can’t get a game to start with only 4 people. 3 people works and more than 4 works but for some reason when exactly 4 join, the game kicks us all out
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Get 4 people to join a private match in the series x version of the game.
What happens when the bug occurs? The game kicks everyone out.
What do you expect to see? I would expect to see the game starting like normal.

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See above, we cannot start a game with exactly 4 people.

Hi,  the message we get is that all players are kicked out of the EA servers and we have to reconnect.  This has been happening lately with 4+ players, tonight it happened with 5 and then with 6 players, but it worked with 4 players.  

It happens when the person setting up the private match sends out the invite in the game to all the people in the xbox party, when we all accept the invite, the last person to join will cause all the other players to be kicked off the EA servers.  I don't have a video of it, but I will try to get one next time we get on.  It is very strange and random.  It is frustrating because it only happened after this past update, it was working perfectly before.

Hello,

Last night, I played my first Private Match Play round vs a friend.  We attempted to play two rounds and the same thing happened both times, so this bug is repeatable.

Essentially, no matter what the outcome of the hole, the game awarded both of us 1up.  Through 9 holes, we were both 9up, and the match auto ended as we conjectured it would after the 10th hole.   The match had gone back and forth a bit, with both of us being up at certain points, but I believe through 9 holes, I should have been 2up.  

A few other strange items I noticed:

If we went into the score card on the menu, every single hole said "Even".

If someone won the hole with an eagle, the other player was still forced to putt out.  This is silly.

There is no apparent way to concede a putt or the hole.  This is also silly.

This was on Xbox X.

 I don't play EA PGA TOUR 23 online I'm forced to purchase Playstation plus Essentials which cost another $90.00, I purchase EA PGA TOUR 23 early it cost me $140.00, now spend another $90.00 no way. It's not good for Playstation to force people to purchase playstation plus in order for me to be able to play the game online , I already paid over $ 100.00 in the first place. Today when you purchase a game they are mostly over $100.00 then you need to buy season pass's and add-ons now spent another $90.00 to play online. Rip Off!  Not so long ago a game use to be $ 49 or $59 and it included everything to play there was no season pass's or add ons to purchase. Today the games are in the $100.00 plus , how do younger players afford to play games . I currently pay for my internet which again is over $100.00 there's no way I will pay another $90.00 just to be able to play the game I purchased online .