The most important identify in golf, Tiger Woods, is reportedly set to fulfill Tuesday with fellow PGA Tour gamers concerning the continuing menace introduced by the fledgling LIV Golf collection.
In response to Fireplace Pit Collective and ESPN, Woods would be the headliner in a participant assembly in Wilmington, Del., the place the BMW Championship will start on Thursday. The Delaware occasion is the second of three tournaments within the FedEx Cup playoffs.
An unnamed PGA Tour participant informed ESPN, “It’s a meeting to get the top 20 players in the world on the same page on how we can continue to make the PGA Tour the best product in professional golf.”
A PGA Tour Participant Advisory Council assembly can also be scheduled for Tuesday, and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is because of deal with the gamers individually, per ESPN. Fireplace Pit Collective wrote: “Supposedly everything is on the table, from major championship boycotts to Monahan’s future to a larger compromise (with LIV).”
The Saudi-funded LIV circuit, led by CEO Greg Norman, has pulled quite a few star gamers away from the PGA Tour with nine-figure greenback ensures. The LIV roster consists of Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson, Spain’s Sergio Garcia and South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen. Australia’s Cameron Smith, at the moment ranked second on the planet, reportedly is about to go away the PGA Tour to affix the LIV tour, too.
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Gamers who’ve competed in LIV occasions have been suspended by the PGA Tour, and final week a California courtroom sided with the PGA Tour in its resolution to ban LIV gamers from the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Woods publicly backed the PGA Tour amid a flood of defections earlier this summer season, saying forward of the Open Championship, “I disagree with (gamers leaping to LIV). 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.
“Some of these players may not ever get a chance to play in major championships. That is a possibility. We don’t know that for sure yet. It’s up to all the major championship bodies to make that determination. But that is a possibility that some players will never, ever get a chance to play in a major championship, never get a chance to experience (the Open Championship), walk down the fairways at Augusta National. That, to me, I just don’t understand it.”
Woods declined a proposal of greater than $700 million to affix LIV, Norman stated in a Fox News interview this month.
