Tiger Woods chosen for PGA Tour 2K25 cover: 15-time major champion is featured player in new golf video game

Tiger Woods has been named the cover athlete for the latest golf video game, PGA Tour 2K25. Woods will appear individually in the Legend's Edition of the game, making it his second consecutive PGA Tour 2K cover after signing with the franchise in early 2021. Before Woods received the honor for PGA Tour 2K23, Justin Thomas was the cover athlete at the inception making his first foray into the golf video game space.

Woods will share the cover of the game's regular edition and deluxe edition with Max Homa and Matt Fitzpatrick.

Woods was one of many playable characters in the latest edition of the game, which also featured Fitzpatrick, a 2K athlete, world No. 1 Nelly Korda, Olympic gold medalist Lydia Ko, two-time major champion Xander Schauffele, Rickie Fowler and Collin Morikawa could be seen. among other things. Neither the game's official release date nor the player roster for PGA Tour 2K25 have been announced.

Woods is no stranger to seeing his face on the cover of video games. From 1999 to 2013, the 15-time major champion had his own video game franchise, with EA Sports serving as the cover athlete for each edition. EA featured Rory McIlroy on the cover of its 2015 game before he left the space for eight years. EA returned in 2023 with the EA Sports PGA Tour, which had no cover athlete but gave players access to golf courses like Augusta National.

Although Woods no longer plays as regularly as he once did, he remains as popular as ever on the PGA Tour. The 49-year-old recently won the top prize in the PGA Tour's Player Impact Program and launched his TGL Simulator golf league on ESPN, where he will make his playing debut this week.