If you’re like most sports fans, you haven’t watched that much golf since June, when Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open — and next announced he was getting knee surgery and was done playing for the rest of 2008. Since thereupon, the PGA Tour has suffered from the absence of its most glamorous celebrity.

But while we may not be watching golf, that doesn’t mean we aren’t playing it. Even whether you don’t have an entire day to spend on the urls, or whether you can’t afford the clubs and the greens fees, you can still squeeze in 18 holes in about half an hour. And it’s all thanks to video golf.

Golf games have been around nearly from the start of the video-game era, but by the last decade or so, EA Sports’ “Tiger Woods” series has been atop the leaderboard. that year’s edition has a bigger selling point: It’s the only way you

can see Woods play before 2009.

_”Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09″ (EA Sports, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99; Wii, $49.99; PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, $39.99): Woods isn’t the only familiar face in his namesake game: You’ll plus compete against pros like Vijay Singh and Annika Sorenstam. But the one guy you’ll really see a lot of is Woods’ coach Hank Haney, who pops up after every round with exercises to improve various aspects of your game. Haney is a welcome addition, and I found that his drills actually did improve my overall performance.

The big improvement in “PGA Tour 09″ is in the mechanics of swinging your club. The analog controls in last year’s edition made it too difficult to gauge the ability and accuracy of your shots. that duration, EA has added on-screen indicators to give you a better concept, before you assemble the shot, of…

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