EA Sports recently announced a “legacy challenge mode” to the upcoming “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13″ video game, featuring levels in which users play as Woods at various stages of his life, ranging from a two-year-old to a future Woods seeking a record 19th major title.

Tiger worked with EA Sports developers throughout the game design process, even contributing personal photographs and memories to help make the game as realistic as possible. Despite his recent struggles, EA Sports has been an ardent supporter of Tiger and now is helping to make his invincible persona more human.

“Our challenge with ‘Tiger,’ like all our games, is to raise the bar and bring new things in every year. But, here, we’re telling a story of a very human side of Tiger and his development as a golfer,” said EA COO Peter Moore. “It’s almost like we’re making the very first golf (role playing game).” The game is set for release March 27. To learn more, visit the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 website.

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 to Feature 9 Tigers

Woods is already commited to play with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, with whom Woods shared a round at Torrey Pines in 2008. Whether Woods would play with Romo or Tebow is still up in the air.

Tebow grew up playing golf in the Jacksonville, Florida area. He played golf a couple years ago with four-time major champion Phil Mickelson at a nearby golf course the week of THE PLAYERS Championship. The Broncos’ quarterback also hosts his own golf tournament, the Tim Tebow Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic. Tebow also has some experience playing with PGA Tour players as he participated in the pro-am of the St. Jude FedEx Classic last year.

PGATour.com speculation is Woods could be paired with Romo, while Tebow would play with another PGA professional. One player who might make sense playing with Tebow would be fellow University of Florida alum Camilo Villegas.

The 2012 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am takes place from February 6-12. D.A. Points is the defending champion along with his celebrity partner, Bill Murray.

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Tim Tebow Could Join Tiger Woods at Pebble Beach

LaCava’s move came as a surprise to Johnson, who will be Woods’ teammate at the upcoming President’s Cup matches this fall. David Winkle, Johnson’s agent at Hambric Sports Management, has indicated that a search for a new caddie would begin immediately.

“Needless to say, Dustin and I were completely surprised, as they have enjoyed a great relationship and have been very successful together,” Winkle said. “Nonetheless, we think highly of Joe, both as a caddie and a person, which is why he was hired in the first place. We wish him nothing but the best with his new employer.”

If you’re looking to break into the business as a PGA Tour caddy, you might be in luck. Dustin Johnson is partnering with Caddy For A Cure to offer one lucky person the opportunity to caddy for him at the 2012 Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla, California. The Farmers will be played at the beautiful and historic Torrey Pines January 23rd thru January 28th, 2012. The caddy date will be Wednesday, January 25th during the pro am competition round.

Caddy For A Cure offers PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour caddy opportunities through auctions. 100% of auction proceeds are donated to charity. To learn more, visit Caddy For A Cure.

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PGA Tour Star Dustin Johnson Looking for a Caddy

“We saw the best of Tiger in 2000 and 2001. I don’t think golf can be played any better than that,” said Rory McIlroy. “He didn’t even need to play that well to win tournaments — he won the US Open by 15 shots, the Open by eight — I so think we’ve seen the best of him but that’s not to say to he won’t win again.

“It will be difficult for him because the fields are so much deeper. He set the benchmark and that’s where we’re all trying to get to. I don’t think anybody has got there yet but we’re getting closer. It will be a tough ask for him to get back there.”

Tiger Woods has suffered numerous setbacks on and off the golf course over the past two years. He’s been working with swing coach Sean Foley for the past year and has had to overcome multiple injuries as well. Currently ranked 49th in the world, Woods is hoping to gain some momentum over the next few weeks before appearing in the President’s Cup later this fall.

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Rory McIlroy Doubts Tiger Woods Can Return

Eager to prove that his 2010 US Open title was not a fluke, McDowell expressed his concern about Tiger Woods’ health, calling his abscence from the field this week “a massive blow” to the game of golf.

“We all hope as golfers that his health can come back,” said McDowell. “Golf needs him. He has been golf for the last 15 years. Will he be back? Nobody knows at the minute. There’s obviously a lot going on. His mental health is one question and his physical health is now another.”

McDowell was definitely concerned when Woods pulled out of the PLAYERS and felt the injury could be worse than most feared.

“The warning signs were there, but we thought he’d be ready for the U.S. Open,” he said. “Tiger plays his cards close to his chest and it’s pretty difficult to know what’s going on, His quest to beat Jack Nicklaus’s record is one of the great golf stories and we hope he gets better soon.”

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2010 US Open Champion Concerned for Tiger

Currently, Hernandez is playing in the 6-and-under divisions of the Callaway Junior Tour, Future Champions Tour, and the US Kids Golf Junior Tour. Not only is he playing in highly competitive leagues, he is also the current points leader in the local US Kids Golf Junior Tour for Player of the Year honors.

“He loves it,” father Victor Hernandez says. “His mentality is to just have fun. He knows he’s going to go play with friends. Obviously he likes medals and likes trophies. But I told him it doesn’t matter where you end up, as long as he does his best.”

“From the first day I noticed him,” golf professional Steve Labarge said. “During the camp we break out into two sections. One works on short game and the other on the long game. While working on his short game and putting I noticed his touch and feel and sense of the stroke were pretty incredible for a 4-year-old.”

Larbarge was amazed at how advanced Hernandez’s motor skills and hand eye-coordination for a child at that age were. He decided to go talk to his father and put out some feelers about possibly getting Hernandez some lessons and entering him in some tournaments.

“I just observed the fact that he was more talented than the other kids. I just mentioned to his dad about his son’s ability to create feel with the swing and hand eye coordination.”

Hernandez quickly found himself taking lessons with Labarge where they worked on the basic fundamentals of the golf swing.

“At that age you can’t give a whole lot of detailed instruction. He has a natural swing. The main thing I focus on him with are primarily the fundamentals of alignment, making sure when he hits the ball his body position is the same,” Labarge said. “The swing thought I give him is to swing smoothly.”

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Tiger Woods to be Challenged By 5-Year-Old Golf Prodigy

“With the new My Swing App I get instant feedback on my swing whether I’m out on Tour or practicing at home,” said Tiger. “This device gives me with all the tools necessary to analyze and break down my own swing, and best of all I don’t need another set of eyes or expensive equipment to do it.”

Tiger’s app offers a feature that allows anyone to compare side-by-side their swing with the four-time Masters champion. Woods promises exclusive updates along with information about his life on Tour though the app. It also provides a how-to video directly from Tiger covering swing analysis as well as exclusive video updates for members only.

The app is priced at $9.99. “We want to raise as much money as we possibly can for the Foundation, and it’s a way for anyone who participates in the game of golf to use the same technology that I use on a daily basis,” he explained. “That’s how I make the swing changes with Sean. I take a video of my swing. So I use it almost daily. And there’s no reason why anyone else can’t.”

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Practice With Tiger Woods Golf Swing App

To begin, start from behind the ball and pick a spot close to you, like a broken tee on the tee box, old divot or dark piece of grass that’s on the same line as your ultimate target. Then picture a line from the ball through both of those targets.

Step into your stance with your back foot, then line up your clubface so it’s perpendicular to the intermediate target. As you finish setting up, make sure your feet, knees, hips, shoulders and eyes are aligned parallel to the line that runs from the ball through both targets.

Take a last look at the far target. If your aim feels off before you swing, go through the whole process again. Don’t just adjust a single element, like your feet or shoulders. That throws your entire alignment out of whack.

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Secret Golf Tip That Both Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus Share

Woods was partnered with Steve Stricker and attempting to chip his third shot on the final hole of the morning fourball against Europe’s Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher on to the green. To his surprise, Tiger laid the sod over the golf ball and duffed the shot straight at photographer Pain, who captured this extraordinary picture just before the ball hit his camera, bounced on to his chest and came to rest at his feet. Woods was furious about his blunder, but neither he nor caddie Steve Williams objected to Pain’s position.

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Golf Photo of 2010 Not Tiger’s Finest Moment

“It’s a little strange sometimes thinking about it, but I guess you teach golf for so long it kind of doesn’t matter who is in front of you,” Foley says. “That ball is going to fly based on the face position and the attack angle. It doesn’t matter who is doing it, the ball solves the equation when it’s in the air.”

As he winds his way home from the Orlando-area academy where he works — completing an interview that was interrupted by a session with Woods — Foley says his most famous client looks good. “Much more control of his golf ball,” he says.

So how did a kid from Scarborough, Ont., end up with the ear of the planet’s most famous athlete?

Some of the 36-year-old’s path is oft-told. As a junior instructor at Glen Abbey in Oakville, he defied orders during one Canadian Open and ended up on the range talking shop with the PGA pros. A teaching assignment during a junior event sponsored by Stephen Ames led to full-time work with the Calgary professional, which ultimately became the springboard to a client base that now includes Woods, Hunter Mahan, Justin Rose and Sean O’Hair.

“Starting to work with Steve and those guys on tour … it’s a bit of rush,” he says. “They say you fake it ’til you make it, so you never really know until you’re put in that position — one, mentally how strong you are; and two, how confident you are.”

Confidence is not a problem for Foley these days. How true that was when his journey began is less certain.

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Sean Foley Helps Tiger Woods Recover His Touch