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# Tiger Woods dropped from own video game cover
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## Tiger Woods may have been hoping this year would be an improvement on the
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last but 2011 didn't get off to the best of starts after he was dropped from
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the cover of his own video game.
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Then and now: Tiger Woods dominates the cover of EA's 2010 game but is only a
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distant figure on the 2011 version
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[![Nick Collins][2]][3]
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By [Nick Collins][4] 7:30AM GMT 07 Jan 2011
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[Follow Nick Collins on Twitter][5]
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[Comments][6]
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The fallout from a high-profile sex scandal and his subsequent divorce meant
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2010 was a year for **[Woods][7]** to forget off the course, while on it the
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world's most feared player resembled a shadow of his former self, losing his
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number one ranking to Lee Westwood.
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His collapse in form and the savaging of his clean-cut image also saw Woods -
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formerly one of the world's most bankable athletes - dropped by sponsors
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including Gatorade, AT&T, Gillette and Accenture.
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Now Electronic Arts has decided not to use the golfer's image on the cover of
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, to be released on Xbox 360, PlayStation
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3 and Wii in March.
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Instead, the cover will feature the iconic yellow flag at Augusta, the course
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where The Masters is played each year.
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He will still be a playable character in the game and will appear on the front
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of the PlayStation 3 Collector's Edition of the game, which is more expensive
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and has extra features.
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## Related Articles
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* [Gillette ends Tiger Woods sponsorship deal][8]
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24 Dec 2010
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* [Tiger Woods divorce: the women involved][9]
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24 Aug 2010
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* [Tiger Woods 'deeply sorry' for affairs][10]
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19 Feb 2010
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* [Read Tiger Woods statement in full][11]
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19 Feb 2010
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Woods's affiliation with the former bestselling game began in 1999, but last
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year worldwide sales dropped 50 to 60 per cent.
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The sales slump was put down to a slump in public interest in golf, rather
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than Woods's personal crisis, which began in November 2009.
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Despite deciding not to feature Woods on this year's cover, EA Sports
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President Peter Moore claimed the company was standing by the golfer.
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He said: "If the insinuation is it's a reflection of EA Sports backing away
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from its relationship that goes back literally 13 years with Tiger, that's not
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the case whatsoever."
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Gamers should not "read anything" into the decision not to feature Woods on
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the cover of the regular Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii versions of the game, he added.
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[What are these?][13]
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* Share: [Share][12] [ ][14] [ ][15]
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[Tweet][16]
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from-own-video-game-cover.html
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Telegraph
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## [Tiger Woods][7]
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* ### [News »][17]
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* ### [UK News »][18]
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* ### [Celebrity news »][19]
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* ### [Sport »][20]
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* ### [Golf »][21]
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In sport
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[![Health check: the troubled times of Tiger Woods][22] ][23]
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### [Health check: Tiger Woods][23]
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[![Tiger Woods][24] ][25]
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### [Tiger on prowl in China][25]
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[![][26] ][27]
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### [Woods dropped from video game][27]
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[X][12] Share & bookmark
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* [Tweet][16]
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* Advertisement
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## TIGER WOODS ON THE WEB
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### [Tiger Woods links][7]
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* [Tiger Woods official website][31]
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* [Tiger Woods PGA Tour profile][31]
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* [Tiger Woods Foundation][32]
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* [Tiger Woods Learning Center][33]
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* [Culture][36]
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[3]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/nick-collins/
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[4]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/nick-collins/ (Nick Collins)
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[5]: http://twitter.com/NicholasCollins
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[6]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/tigerwoods/8245118/Tiger-Woods-
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dropped-from-own-video-game-cover.html#disqus_thread
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[7]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/tigerwoods/
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[8]: /finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8223599
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/Gillette-will-not-renew-Tiger-Woods-sponsorship-deal.html
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involved.html
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[10]: /sport/golf/tigerwoods/7271840/Tiger-Woods-deeply-sorry-for-
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irresponsible-and-selfish-behaviour.html
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[11]: /sport/golf/tigerwoods/7272675/Tiger-Woods-statement-in-full.html
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[13]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4590190/Share-this-
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[19]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/
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[20]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/
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[21]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/
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[22]: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01894/woods_1894674g.jpg
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[23]: /sport/golf/tigerwoods/8511316/Health-check-the-troubled-times-of-
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Tiger-Woods.html
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[24]: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01877/Woods_1877424g.jpg
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[25]: /sport/golf/8464145/Tiger-Woods-finds-China-is-blossoming-with-young-
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talent.html
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[30]: http://disqus.com
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[31]: http://www.tigerwoods.com/
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[32]: http://www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org/
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