It has been announced that Tiger Woods will give a speech to PGA Tour players about LIV.
It has been announced that Tiger Woods will give a speech to PGA Tour players about LIV. Tiger Woods, the biggest name in golf, will reportedly meet with other PGA Tour players on Tuesday to talk about how the new LIV Golf series is still a threat.
Fire Pit Collective and ESPN say that Woods will be the main attraction at a meeting of players in Wilmington, Delaware, where the BMW Championship will start on Thursday. In the FedEx Cup playoffs, the Delaware event is the second of three.
An unnamed PGA Tour player told 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.”
On Tuesday, the PGA Tour Player Advisory Council will meet, and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan will talk to the players separately, according to ESPN. Fire Pit Collective wrote, “Supposedly everything is on the table, from major championship boycotts to Monahan’s future to a larger compromise (with LIV).”
With nine-figure dollar guarantees, the Saudi-funded LIV circuit, which is run by CEO Greg Norman, has lured a lot of top players away from the PGA Tour. Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia of Spain, Charl Schwartzel, and Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa are all on the LIV team.
Cameron Smith, who is from Australia and is currently ranked second in the world, is rumored to be leaving the PGA Tour to join the LIV tour.
Players who have played in LIV events have been banned from the FedEx Cup playoffs by the PGA Tour. A California court agreed with the PGA Tour’s decision last week.
Woods’ Support
In the middle of a lot of players leaving the PGA Tour earlier this summer, Woods came out in support of the tour. He said this before the Open Championship.
“I disagree with (players jumping to LIV). I think that what they’ve done is they’ve turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position…
“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.”
Norman said in an interview with Fox News this month that LIV made Woods an offer of more than $700 million to join. Woods turned down the offer.