Tiger Woods joins PGA TOUR Policy Board
From AP News, by Doug Ferguson:
Tiger Woods has joined the PGA Tour policy board for the first time in his 27 years on tour, giving Commissioner Jay Monahan key support as he rebuilds trust while forging ahead with details of a business partnership with Saudi backers of LIV Golf.
Woods will become a sixth player director — a year ago, the PGA Tour had only four players on its board — as part of a broad agreement that gives the players a greater voice and awareness of any major deals going forward. Read more
From CNN by Robert Ilich and Wayne Sterling:
Golf’s power structure took a sharp shift to the players Tuesday when Tiger Woods was named as the sixth player director on the powerful PGA Tour policy board.
The move gives the players a one-seat advantage on the board after the controversial merger in June between the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf. Five of the policy board members are independent directors, with professional backgrounds in law and business.
Amid sweeping changes to the professional golf landscape, the PGA Tour said the new agreement would allow for the tour to remain a “player-driven organization” and that the tour is “for the players, by the players.” Read more
From BBC Sports:
Tiger Woods has joined the PGA Tour's Policy Board as a player director in a move which will give golfers a bigger say in major decisions.
Woods' appointment follows the merger between the Tour, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the DP World Tour in June that left players blindsided.
The 15-time major winner becomes the board's sixth player director, joining Rory McIlroy and four others. Read more
From The West Australian, by Staff Writers:
Tiger Woods has been named as the sixth player-director on the PGA Tour's policy board in response to anger at the proposed deal between golf's rival factions.
Woods and Rory McIlroy were the highest-profile advocates of the PGA Tour but were, along with the rest of the players, kept in the dark before the shock announcement of a deal between the PGA Tour, European Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which bankrolls LIV Golf. Read more
From France 24, by AFP:
Tiger Woods is joining the PGA Tour's newly expanded policy board, the tour announced Tuesday, in a move aimed at cooling player tensions over secrecy surrounding merger talks with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf.
The 15-time major champion, a long-time supporter of the PGA Tour in its fight with upstart LIV, will have a direct say in approving any eventual deal with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), the framework of which was unveiled in June to the shock of tour players. Read more
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