🚨🚨 Tiger insists there’s been a development 👀
🚨🚨 Tiger insists there’s been a development 👀
Tiger Woods lifts lid on PGA-LIV Golf peace talks after meeting
Tiger Woods is looking to play his part in peace talks between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf with the icon claiming their recent meeting led to productive discussions
Tiger Woods is looking to aid peace talks with the PGA Tour and LIV Golf
Tiger Woods is looking to aid peace talks with the PGA Tour and LIV Golf
Tiger Woods has claimed last month’s peace talks with PIF boss Yassir Al-Rumayyan were “positive” for the future of golf. The 15-time Major winner said: “We’re headed in the right direction”.
Saudi-backed LIV Golf split golf in 2022 by signing top stars like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. But a shock “framework agreement” was announced on June 6 last year to try and bring the warring sides together.
That saw Woods join other members of the PGA Tour Policy Board – with Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Patrick Cantlay, Peter Malnati and Webb Simpson – met Newcastle chairman Al-Rumayyan in the Bahamas.
And speaking about the meeting for the first time after his final round at the Masters, the American superstar said: “I don’t know if we’re closer (to a deal), but certainly we’re headed in the right direction. That was a very positive meeting, and I think both sides came away from the meeting feeling positive.”
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Obstacles to any deal are the role of the LIV Golf team format in any new golf calendar – and how to compensate PGA Tour loyalists who declined to sign for the Saudi-backed breakaway league.
LIV boss Greg Norman, who was in Augusta this week, claimed in 2022 that Woods was offered “mind-blowingly enormous” money to join the Saudi breakaway league. And at the 2022 Open in St Andrews, Woods stated his opposition to LIV Golf’s closed shop.
“I disagree with it,” he said. “I think that what they’ve done is they’ve turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position. The world No.959 shot a closing 77 in his 100th round at the Masters to finish on 16-over par and bottom of the players who played the weekend.
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The wealth of LIV Golf has attracted some of the sport’s biggest names