Monday, August 15, 2022. 10:42 PM
Tiger Woods is set to meet with several of the world’s top golfers on Tuesday in a bid to rally support for the PGA Tour in his fight once morest rival series LIV Golf, sources confirmed to ESPN on Monday.
The meeting between 15-time major champion Woods and the group of players is set to take place at the BMW Championship in Wilmington, Delaware, which hosts the second FedEx Cup playoff that begins Thursday.
A player who was invited to attend the reunion told ESPN that it will include several of the top 20 players in the world and a handful of other influential PGA Tour members who have not made it to the LIV Tour. The meeting will take place shortly following the scheduled PGA Tour Players’ Advisory Committee meeting at Wilmington Country Club.
“This is a meeting to get the top 20 players in the world on the same page to continue making the PGA the best product in professional golf,” a player invited to the meeting told ESPN on Monday.
PGA commissioner Jay Monahan is due to meet with the members at another meeting on Wednesday, the sources say.
At the British Open last month, Woods delivered his harshest criticism of players who ditched the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tour. Several former major champions, including Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Bubba Watson, have been lured into the new circuit led by Greg Norman, with guaranteed contracts reportedly worth between $100 million and $200 million.
“I don’t agree,” Woods said in July. I think what they’ve done is they’ve turned their backs on what got them to this position. »
In an interview that aired on Fox News earlier this month, Norman confirmed that Woods turned down an offer between $700 million and $800 million to join LIV Golf. Norman said the offer was made before he became the league’s CEO and commissioner.
