adminBecause the PGA Tour reeled from exterior and self-inflicted strikes, tour officers turned to a well-known face for assist.
Tiger Woods has joined the Tour Coverage Board as participant director, a transfer that ought to give gamers an influential voice at an important time in tour historical past. It is not about strolling the 18th at Augusta Nationwide or crossing the Swilcan Bridge at St.
After greater than a 12 months spent fooling LIV Golf and its Saudi backers, the PGA Tour — extra exactly, a small clique of management — made a shocking U-turn in early June, saying an settlement with the Saudi Public Funding Fund that caught gamers all the way in which to the Woods without warning.
The backlash towards PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was nuclear, and gamers throughout the tour referred to as for all the things from Monahan’s stint to make amends for holding on to the tour as a substitute of leaping into the LIV. Nonetheless, the most important concern was that gamers felt they lacked a voice – not an excellent state of affairs for a company that payments itself as “for the gamers, by the gamers”.
A brand new settlement was introduced Tuesday morning that seeks to “be sure that the Tour lives as much as its mission of being a player-driven group,” in keeping with a press launch. The Tour agreed to maintain gamers up to date on key choices, in addition to the progress of the present settlement between the Tour and the PIF.
Woods’ appointment to the board provides the gamers six voting votes to the executives’ 5, which in idea ought to tip the stability within the gamers’ favor. Along with Woods, the opposite gamers on the board are Patrick Cantlay, Charlie Hoffman, Peter Malnati, Rory McIlroy and Webb Simpson.
The assertion attributed a variety of PR speaking to Woods, however the important thing line is that this, concerning Monahan: “He has my confidence going ahead with these adjustments.” Monahan’s job safety will proceed to catch the attention of gamers offended at how the whole settlement unfolds, however so long as Monahan has Woods’ belief, he is protected.
In an effort to exhibit the breadth of help and the unity of the executives and gamers, the discharge listed all of the gamers on board with the settlement: Woods, Cantlay, Hoffman, Malnati, McIlroy, Simpson, Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Rickie Fowler, Kevin Kisner, Billy Hurschel, Sam Burns, Justin Thomas, Xander Schavelli, Justin Rose, Max Homma, Colin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris, Scotty Scheffler, Jon Rahm, Victor Hovland, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Younger, Shane Lowry, Keegan Bradley, Brian Harman, Tom Kim, Tony Finau, Windham Clark, Hideki Matsuyama, Terrell Hatton, Jason Day, Mackenzie Hughes, Corey Conners, Maverick McNeely, Keith Mitchell, Henrik Norlander, Ryan Armor, Bryce Garnett, Kevin Strellman and Tommy Fleetwood. It is a nice leaderboard, and if the PGA Tour can get all of them pointing in the identical path, will probably be a miracle and an necessary step ahead for males’s golf professionals.
