From facial hair to walking on water, Tiger Woods game tries to keep it real

From facial hair to walking on water, Tiger Woods game tries to keep it real By: Neil Davidson, THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian Mike Weir was working on his "playoff beard" when developers from Electronic Arts' "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09" caught up with him to capture his new in-game face. As in real life, the facial hair didn't last long in the video game. "He kind of wanted it to be more clean-cut," Travis Sailer, assistant designer on the game, said from Orlando. "That's what he normally goes with. So we actually worked with him and worked with our modellers in the game and got it so that we wiped away his beard a little bit for him." Weir isn't the only golfer keeping an eye on the game. Woods, currently recovering from knee surgery, watches closely as well, according to Sailer. "He's obviously very busy but it's still his name... [read full story]