Let the Tiger Woods web spoofs begin

A screen grab from the Tiger Woods Wife Outrun web game.

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Web pranksters and talk show hosts have mobilised to lampoon fallen sports idol Tiger Woods in the only way they know how - relentless parody clips, remixes, online games, jokes and greeting cards.

Woods's marriage is on the rocks, his mother-in-law went to hospital and sponsors have already started abandoning him, but no amount of public humiliation will deter the online spoof makers from using his spectacular fall from grace for a cheap laugh.

And it's not just pranksters cashing in - traffic to news websites has skyrocketed, with the Woods stories propping up the news cycle during the normally quiet holiday season.

"God bless Tiger," Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz told a conference this week, adding that all of the main Yahoo news sections got a "huge uplift" from the story.

"It is better than Michael Jackson dying; it is kind of hard to put an ad next to a funeral."

Spoof YouTube songs

Among the many online Tiger clips is the Voicemail Slow Jam Remix, which adds a soul tune to the voicemail message one of Woods's alleged mistresses claims he left on her phone.

The slow jam is listed on the Viral Video Chart for the last seven days at No.18, with more than 830,000 views.

Getting into the festive spirit, there is also a Christmas Song Parody clip, with the tune of It's the most wonderful time of the year used under new lyrics ("He's the most unfaithful guy of the year").

To go along with the festive season, another prankster created an online Christmas greeting card featuring a Photoshopped picture of wife Elin Nordegren next to a battered and bruised Woods. Inside a message reads "Drive Safely!"

A clever US hip-hop radio station, B96, took the Black Eyed Peas hit I Gotta Feeling and created a new song, Tiger's Been Cheatin'.

Games

No less than three web games have been released, based on the early suggestions - now discredited - that the initial car accident that sparked the media interest in Woods was caused because he was running away from Nordegren.

In Tiger Woods Wife Outrun, Woods is in his black Cadillac Escalade with a mistress in the passenger seat and players must dodge road obstacles while being chased by a golf club-wielding character resembling Nordegren.

Hit too many obstacles and the Nordegren character runs to the front of the car and proceeds to bash Woods and the windscreen relentlessly with a driver.

Another web game, Golfer's Getaway, follows the same premise but with slightly better graphics.

Tiger Parking Slam takes a slightly different bent, with players tasked with parking Woods's car in increasingly difficult scenarios while dodging golf club swings from Nordegren.

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