At 10am on Wednesday morning, the gauntlet was thrown down between the greatest golfer of all time (probably) and the newest Late Night host. Tiger Woods and Jimmy Fallon had a mini 3-hole tourney to determine just who is the greatest Wii golf aficionado, using "PGA Tour 10" as the point of contention.

As it happens, Tiger got crushed by Fallon, needing a hole-in-one on the last hole to have a chance. Tiger was quick to recall that he's had 19 hole-in-ones over his career, but sadly this was not his 20th and he fell to Fallon by a large margin.

On a sidenote, this was the best press event ever, 'cause it took place literally 50 feet outside my building. Note to future PR people...plan every event to take place in the island in the middle of Times Square, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
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A few weeks back I got a look at the future of "Tiger Woods PGA Golf" and it's definitely a departure from anything EA has done before. "Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online" is a browser-based golf game that'll pack in all of the major features from the full console versions, just without the heavy duty hardware requirement.

Like the recently-released "Quake Live," "Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online" can be played right from your browser. There's a short install at the beginning, but after that the entire game is streamed right onto your computer. Best of all, it's extremely scalable, allowing you to play the game on aging computers with minimal graphics cards. Minimum system specs haven't been released yet, but the idea is that it'll be able to run on computers from 3 or 4 years ago, giving you something other than Solitaire on that aging work laptop.

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