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Tiger Woods 06 demo on Live

Try out four holes.

Microsoft and pals continue to round out the array of free demos on Xbox Live Marketplace with stuff from five months ago - adding Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 to a list that last week saw the addition of Amped 3.

The demo is a whopping 890MB and for that you get to play on your own, or against Tiger Woods, on one hole each from four of the game's courses - TPC at Sawgrass, Riviera Country Club, Carnoustie and Pebble Beach.

The full game consists of a Career mode, along with stroke play, match play, skins and sundry options, online golfing, and a character design tool - a healthy amount of content, but not, as we said in our review, a patch on the relatively enormous current-generation console releases.

If you enjoy the demo, you might want to check out the most recent Xbox version instead, which despite offering very little over its own predecessors is still probably the best version of EA's golf series around. Although if you do that, you should also beware that none of the Xbox 1 versions of Tiger Woods are compatible with the Xbox 360 at this time.