Tiger Woods has revealed that the PGA Tour is exploring methods to welcome again LIV Golf gamers.
Players who joined the controversial insurgent tour have had their PGA memberships suspended, together with massive names like Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and, extra just lately, John Rahm. Despite lacking a deadline and doubts over a merger, the Tour continues discussions with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF), which owns LIV.
Woods, a member of the PGA Tour’s Policy Board, has issued a significant replace on how discussions to convey the excursions nearer collectively are progressing. Speaking in Los Angeles, the fifteen-time Major winner stated (by way of the Mirror): “We’re trying into all of the completely different fashions for pathways again.
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“What that looks like, what the impact is for the players who have stayed and who have not left and how we make our product better going forward, there is no answer to that right now.
“We’re taking a look at a really completely different – various levels of concepts and what that appears like within the brief time period, we do not know. We do not even know in the long run what that appears like. Trust me, there’s each day, weekly emails and talks about this and what this appears like for our tour going ahead.”
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Woods’ feedback come two weeks after his shut buddy and enterprise associate, Rory McIlroy, claimed the insurgent gamers must be provided a pathway again to the Tour with out punishment.
McIlroy, who had beforehand been one in all LIV’s greatest critics, stated at Pebble Beach: “Guys made choices to go and play LIV, guys made choices to stay here. If people still have eligibility on this tour and they want to come back and play or you want to try and do something, let them come back. I think it’s hard to punish people. I don’t think there should be a punishment.
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“Obviously I’ve changed my tune on that because I see where golf is and I see that having a diminished PGA Tour and having a diminished LIV Tour or anything else is bad for both parties. It would be much better being together and moving forward together for the good of the game.”
However, not everybody agrees with McIlroy, with a number of the PGA Tour’s prime gamers voicing their opposition to the LIV stars’ simple return. Big names like Scottie Scheffler and Justin Thomas have each argued that there must be penalties for his or her actions.