Seeking to increase awareness and support the cause to reinstate gold as an Olympic sport, golf gaming environment World Golf Tour has partnered with GGL Global Games to include the sports title with GGL's Digital Games event.

The Digital Games is a worldwide, online video game competition across multiple platforms, genres, and gaming titles. Players represent their country in a series of Inter-Continental Regional Qualifiers before advancing to the Digital Games Grand Finals, a live event in Shanghai hosted by the China Government and included as part of the Our Olympic Organizing Committee's welcome events.

In addition to World Golf Tour, the 2008 competition will include Soulcalibur IV, StarCraft: Brood War, MLB The Show 08, Call of Duty 4, and several other titles.

World Golf Tour offers an online community in which players can compete on recreated courses and sponsored tournaments for an “authentic golf experience.” Since the demo’s launch in May 2007, World Golf Tour has attracted over 500,000 players from over 150 different countries. The full version of the game will be available later this summer.

Said World Golf Tour CEO YuChiang Cheng "World Golf Tour’s goal is to introduce new people to golf and we support the sport’s bid to join the 2012 Olympics. Gaming was recently declared the 99th Official Sport of China and with the launch of the Digital Games coinciding with the 2008 Olympics, it’s a great opportunity to bring the game of golf to a large international audience, and reach out to younger participants. Online golf is much more affordable and can engage those who may not have the means to hit the links in real life.”