Post by trueblue on Aug 16, 2022 17:08:13 GMT
'Report: Tiger Woods to join PGA Tour player meeting on LIV Golf'
The future of the PGA Tour is on the agenda of a players-only meeting on Tuesday in Wilmington, Del. — and Tiger Woods is reportedly flying in to make his own voice heard.
According to multiple reports from both Alan Shipnuck of the Firepit Collective and ESPN, Woods is expected to fly in to join a group consisting of many of the top-20 players in the world on Tuesday morning ahead of the BMW Championship. The group is reportedly meeting with the hope of charting a path forward from the developments of the last several months in professional golf. “Everything is on the table” in the meeting, according to Shipnuck, including major championship boycotts and the job security of current PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.
According to multiple reports from both Alan Shipnuck of the Firepit Collective and ESPN, Woods is expected to fly in to join a group consisting of many of the top-20 players in the world on Tuesday morning ahead of the BMW Championship. The group is reportedly meeting with the hope of charting a path forward from the developments of the last several months in professional golf. “Everything is on the table” in the meeting, according to Shipnuck, including major championship boycotts and the job security of current PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.
The meeting comes after months of advances from LIV Golf, which has used unprecedented amounts of Saudi funding to form its own rival golf league and pluck away a group including half of the Tour’s most popular players, per its own Player Impact Program. With a reported $2 billion investment, LIV has weaponized the Tour establishment against itself, courting players with guaranteed payouts and record-breaking tournament purposes. In just a few months, LIV’s cash infusion has presented the first serious threat to a major American professional sports league in decades.