Tiger misses cut again

TIGER WooDS has endorsed every annual computer golf game released by EA Sports for the last 16 years. But his fall is such that Tiger is not even included in Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, to be launched at St Andrews on Thursday.

EA said golfers were picked from the top 100 — Tiger is ranked 241 — and also cited ‘political reasons’. EA announced in october 2013 they were ending their relationship with Woods, while McIlroy was selected as title golfer last March.

Meanwhile, no prizes for guessing which caddie refused to wear the bagman’s bib identifying his golfer during the first day of practice. It was the obnoxious Steve Williams, Tiger’s former bagman who is now with Adam Scott.

l THE test event date for the troubled Olympic golf course in Rio has been put back from November to the first quarter of 2016. But organisers say they are now ‘very confident’ the course will be completed in time. Legal challenges from conservationists have gone away, with wild pigs back roaming the area and eating the long grass that has grown remarkably quickly. TENNIS great Rod Laver was in the group that greeted Novak Djokovic as he came up the Centre Court stairs with the trophy. But sadly Djokovic didn’t see shy Laver because he was in the second row behind the gushing All England Club chairman’s wife Gill Brook, who pushed forward to get a kiss on both cheeks from Novak.

l IT IS not the best of timing for Manchester United that their head of marketing, Jonathan Rigby, announced he was leaving on the eve of their commercially-driven USA tour. A spokesman said: ‘Jonathan has had five successful years here and felt it was time to pursue something new.’