OK this issue seems to have fixed itself.
I installed Panther this weekend. I had backup my Tiger Woods and just dragged it back to my Panther install. Tiger would crash 8 out of 10 times when the course would load. I did a clean install of Tiger Woods and added the Aspyr patch for it but then got the odd graphical errors with the players on screen. I reinstalled Tiger again but did not add the patch but got the same results. Got a response from Aspyr to try things I already had tried. Then I reinstalled the patch just for kicks and it's all back to normal. Odd!