Tiger Woods, the injured golf star coming off record sales for his video game last year with help from the Masters, has enlisted ex-NBA star Shaquille O’Neal’s help in selling the newest version. Woods posted a Twitter link on Tuesday to unveil a two-minute video of himself and the massive retired basketball star exchanging kung fu moves before making shots in hyping ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 — Duel of the Masters’. “Watch me do battle with @Shaq using the ancient method of Golf-Fu,” Woods posted on his Twitter website. Woods, a 14-time major champion chasing the all-time record of 18 major titles won by Jack Nicklaus, and ‘Shaq’ used the Xbox 360 Kinect motion sensor to make game swings after elaborate kung fu-style moves.
The video game duel between ‘Crimson Cat’ Woods and ‘Swinging Giant’ O’Neal is a nod to older kung fu movies and not unfamiliar to O’Neal, who had a 1990s video game called ‘Shaq-Fu’. Woods, whose new video game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 goes on sale on March 27, had the strongest opening sales for any of his video games last year when Augusta National Golf Club allowed its course to be measured and portrayed in a video game — an unprecedented move for the famed pine-tree-laden lay-out.