You have to feel slightly sorry for Tiger Woods. Yesterday saw his US team get thrashed in the Ryder Cup and then, just 24 hours later, he was at a rain-soaked Leicester Square doing the promotional thing with Vernon Kay, Jodie Kidd and Ian Wright. Just think of the money Tiger, just think of the money. The EA event, designed to promote Tiger Woods 2007, saw the clearly uncomfortable golf star playing real and videogame golf with the "celebs" and some lucky competition winners.
I popped along to the event, mainly because I've always enjoyed the Tiger Woods games but also to get a peek at the best golfer on the planet. He was a lot shorter than I expected, though who wouldn't look dimunitive when stood next to Kay. The event was being filmed for T4 so probing interview questions were clearly off the agenda. The best it got was the revelation that Tiger never actually plays as himself in the game, preferring instead to create a "fat guy" character. Can we read anything into this? Does he harbour a secret desire to let himself go? Can he not bear seeing himself lose? Am I digging to deep into a throwaway remark probably fed to him by the PR? Most definitely. At least the game looked good, although I'm still not totally at home with using the analogue stick to swing with - I blame hours spent on Leaderboard in the 80s.
