Tiger woods online video problem.

I have a late 2009 iMac 27 inch with a integrated ATI Radeon 4850 graphics card. I think Apple wrote Unity Web Player so Great games like Tiger Woods Online could be played through a web browser on both Mac and PC. On half the courses in this game at least 2/5 of the holes are barely playable. They are jerky, glitchy and will most often cause you to lose a match.  If, however, I switch to windows 7 on the same machine, all these courses will play without a hitch or a glitch. This tells me that the graphics drivers on the Mac side are poorly written. If I hadn't been so hasty in my purchase, I would have never bought an iMac with a Radeon Card in it.
While I believe that Radeon makes superior graphics cards hardware wise, they fall greatly behind their competetors when it comes to support and driver updates and I've found Mac driver updates to be virtually non existant.
So now if I want to grab a quick game of online golf I have to reboot into Windows 7, then reboot back into OS X unles I want to greatly limit my courses.
Are there also issues with later model 27 inch iMacs?

Yes rkaufmann, I have, I beta tested the online program and even though I helped them, they will not respond to my question. I have set my graphics to the lowest levels without results. I have played these courses on lesser Macs with no problems (with lower graphic settings). I have talked to owners of the exact computer as mine who have duplicated and verified the problem.
Having said that, its very simple to figure out. The problem lies in the OS X graphic drivers for the 4850 built into the iMac 27" because the very same machine runs the program flawlessly in another OS thast uses different graphic drivers.
I doubt I'll get far because since EA Sports won't respond to their Beta testers I doubt I get them to do the easy fix and discover why it goofs up on 40% of the holes on 50% of the courses. Discover that and they could eliminate the problem on all new courses at least.
I know its fruitless to try to get ATI Radeon to update their drivers as better and more influential folks than I have tried. I wonder if the newer iMacs with ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM are having the same problem.
This is the last time I will buy a Generation One newer model Mac I was burned on a G3 that was supposed to take 2 drives, but didn't, a G5 that I had to buy all new ram to go from OS 10.3 to OS 10.4 and now this.
My only hope here, I guess is to get the attention of Apple to pressure ATI Radeon to update drivers and that is unlikely.

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