Golf Wii game to feature local star

Software development company Gran Tiki Games is to launch a Nintendo Wii game based around local golfing star Lorena Ochoa and her home Guadalajara Country Club course.

A team of 45 people has been developing the game over the past eight months at a cost of some 10 million pesos (750,000 dollars).

The game is expected to roll out later this year, around the time Ochoa gives birth to her first child.  It might also coincide with her annual LPGA tournament at the Guadalajara Country Club, held each November and which attracts the top 36 female players in the world.

The game has been planned for several years but Ochoa's retirement from professional golf last year delayed its launch.

The game, to be used on the Playstation 3 console, will be sold in Mexico, the United States and several Pacific Rim nations, including South Korea, Japan and China.