Tiger Woods, Rory McIlory teaming up to create PGA events

Two of the PGA Tour’s greatest stars are coming collectively to create a sequence of occasions, as LIV Golf continues to pluck among the tour’s greatest names.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are creating one-day occasions that may have among the tour’s prime gamers face one another head-to-head in non-green grass, stadium environments, Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch reported Monday. The sequence will complement the PGA Tour’s schedule and is anticipated to start in 2024, Lynch added.

A players-only assembly amongst members of the PGA Tour was held in the course of the BMW Championship on Aug. 16, with Woods becoming a member of the assembly after being out since The Open Championship in July. The assembly was known as within the wake of LIV Golf including a number of stars from the PGA Tour, reminiscent of Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Bubba Watson. 

Woods and McIlroy have truly mentioned the thought for practically two years, utilizing the LIV Golf scenario as a cause to maneuver ahead in creating the sequence, in line with Lynch. The duo pitched to fellow PGA Tour gamers that the enterprise will enable them construct long-term fairness within the occasions, Lynch added. 

McIlroy was passionate concerning the assembly when talking with reporters final week. 

“We have to get the highest guys collectively extra typically than we do,” McIlroy mentioned.

McIlroy additionally shared that the celebs of the game have to determine an actual plan on find out how to strengthen the PGA Tour. 

“That is what we’re working by, proper?” McIlroy mentioned. “What is the short-term, what is the medium-term, what is the long-term. That is one thing that now we have to determine.”

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is anticipated to announce extra particulars on the Tour Championship later this week, in line with Lynch. 

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