Aren’t they allies? Tiger Woods has voted against Rory McIlroy’s return to the PGA Tour board.
Aren’t they allies? Tiger Woods has voted against Rory McIlroy’s return to the PGA Tour board.
Tiger Woods votes against Rory McIlroy returning to PGA Tour board due to LIV peace talks
The Northern Irishman has previously likened negotiations between Saudi Arabia and the PGA Tour to the Good Friday Agreement.
Tiger Woods has voted against Rory McIlroy’s return to the PGA Tour Board of Directors in an effort to reach a peace agreement with the Saudi sponsors of the separatist LIV League. This is a sensational move that could have a significant impact on the future of professional football. Woods has long been a close ally of McIlroy. They live near Jupiter in South Florida and are social golfing friends. However, his return appears to be in line with a group that includes The Woods, when the Northern Irishman recently agreed to replace Webb Simpson as one of the player directors who will ultimately decide whether there is a merger with the Kingdom. seems to have been blocked by
Woods remains the most famous player in golf. But as a more active player who took center stage in Civil War LIV, McIlroy is an important figure in his own right. Woods and McIlroy have co-founded a multimillion-dollar indoor golf league, but any tensions would shed further light on an already carnage situation. Both men are due to play next week in the US PGA, the second major tournament of the season, but as if that wasn’t enough, the match will be further heated with LIV players in the field and one of the Rebels, Brooks Koepka, in the defense. Conspiracies and accusations.
Telegraph Sports revealed that the five player managers other than Simpson have the power to decide on McIlroy’s return, and that Woods formed the Resistance with Patrick Cantlay, a supposed leader against Saudi investment, and others, and won the afternoon match on the third day. 2. McIlroy did not reveal any identities when asked Wednesday why his reinstatement hadn’t happened, but he acknowledged the team was against him.
“There was a portion of the board that, for whatever reason, maybe wasn’t comfortable with me coming back,” McIlroy said at Quail Hollow, where he was preparing for the Wells Fargo Championship from this week. “I think it got pretty messy and pretty nasty. And I think as it happened, it reopened old wounds and scar tissue from what happened before.”
McIlroy resigned from the board late last year for personal and professional reasons. However, after the board received more than £1 billion in private investment in the US, and little progress was made in PIF negotiations, Mr McIlroy said: I’m thinking of doing so,” he said. I’m happy to play my part. McIlroy was perhaps LIV Golf’s most vocal critic initially, insisting even after the merger plan was agreed last summer that he would rather retire than play the secessionists’ courses. But he softened his stance, saying he was “eager” to secure a contract before his big names join LIV, and said he was inspired by his home country’s remarkable progress as his sport enters the new millennium. He said he believes he can get it. . “I think we have an opportunity to do it because for both parties, from a business standpoint, it makes sense, if not necessarily,” McIlroy said.
“If you compare it to when Northern Ireland was going through the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement, neither side was happy. Catholics were not satisfied and Protestants were not satisfied, but they brought the world.
“It was 1998, 20, 25, and 30 years ago, but my generation doesn’t know anything else. This has been the case for a long time, and all we have known is peace. This is just my little way of thinking about this, trying to get both sides to understand that there might be a compromise here.
McIlroy did not name those who opposed his return to the board, saying he had “no hard feelings.” He also stressed that simply replacing Simpson directly would be a “complex process.”
McIlroy has made no secret of his strained relationship with Cantlay, saying, “We look at the world in a completely different way,” and recently announced that Spieth has signed a multibillion-dollar contract with the Tour and Strategic Sports Group. He exchanged views with Spieth after he suggested that this included investments from PIF. It may not be necessary. Woods made similar comments. “Financially, we don’t need it right now,” he said of SSG’s Saudi investment after the cash injection. However, after a meeting between the player director and PIF president and LIV president Yasser Al Rumayyan two months ago, Woods said the discussions were “positive.” On Wednesday, that adjective seemed questionable.
