Tiger Woods meeting with top PGA Tour players to talk taking on LIV Golf
The PGA Tour’s top-ranked gamers are assembly to speak about LIV Golf.
They’ve invited a ringer.
Tiger Woods is touring to the Wilmington, Delaware web site of the BMW Championship on Tuesday to affix them as they tackle the Saudi-backed insurgent golf league and the way greatest to strategy its escalating infringement on the Tour. The Hearth Pit Collective’s Alan Shipnuck first reported the assembly on Monday.
On the desk, per his report: main championship boycotts, Tour commissioner Jay Monahan’s future and potential compromise. However principally LIV Golf.
ESPN’s Mark Schlabach confirmed the deliberate assembly and spoke with an unnamed participant who was invited. Per his report, a number of of the world’s prime 20 gamers and different influential Tour members who have not defected to LIV Golf will attend.
“It is a assembly to get the highest 20 gamers on the earth on the identical web page on how we will proceed to make the PGA Tour the most effective product in skilled golf,” the nameless participant advised Schlabach.
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Apart from Woods, the studies did not title the scheduled attendees. However the visitor checklist may conceivably embrace World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, No. 3 Rory McIlroy and No. 5 Jon Rahm amongst others, all of whom have expressed solidarity with the PGA Tour and are scheduled to compete this week. McIlroy has been one of LIV Golf’s most vocal critics.
Unlikely to attend is World No. 2 Cameron Smith. The reigning Participant’s Championship and British Open champion continues to be technically an energetic member of the PGA Tour with the $18 million FedEx Cup prize at stake. However he’s reportedly bolting for LIV GOLF on a $100 million deal that hasn’t but been introduced. He withdrew from the BMW on Monday, citing a hip injury.
Additionally not invited, Monahan. This can be a gamers solely assembly. Monahan is scheduled to satisfy with gamers in a often scheduled assembly on Wednesday.
Woods has been sporadically energetic on the golf course as he continues to get better from a 2021 automotive crash that left him with extreme accidents and nearly value him his proper leg. However he is been vocal about his distaste for LIV Golf and turned down a “mind-blowingly enormous” offer to affix the league, in line with CEO Greg Norman.
“I believe that what they’ve carried out is that they’ve turned their again on what has allowed them to get to this place,” Woods said of LIV Golf gamers whereas talking on the British Open in July. “Some gamers have by no means received an opportunity to even expertise it. They’ve gone proper from the beginner ranks proper into that group and by no means actually received an opportunity to play out right here and what it feels wish to play a Tour schedule or to play in some huge occasions. …
“What these gamers are doing for assured cash, what’s the incentive to observe? What’s the incentive to go on the market and earn it within the dust?
Woods shouldn’t be competing this week. He’ll be in Delaware to speak enterprise.
