Top PGA Tour players pledge unity after meeting with Tiger Woods

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Some of the PGA Tour’s top stars said they left a Tuesday night players’ meeting, which included Tiger Woods, in alignment about the future of their tour amid…

Preventing more defections has become part of the agenda for Woods, who spoke about the importance of legacy before the start of the British Open last month at the Old Course at St. Andrews. Justin Thomas, who is close friends with Woods, provided a bit of insight Wednesday morning on the significance of the 15-time major champion making the trip to Delaware to meet with some of the Tour’s leading players at a Wilmington hotel.

“I think the one thing that came out of it, which I think was the purpose, is all the top players on this tour are in agreement and alignment of where we should go going forward, and that was awesome,” McIlroy said. “I mean, he is the hero that we’ve all looked up to,” said McIlroy, ranked third in the world and ninth in the FedEx Cup standings. “His voice carries further than anyone else’s in the game of golf. His role is navigating us to a place where we all think we should be.

The trio had accumulated enough points to qualify for the playoffs but lost their PGA Tour privileges when they joined LIV, the Saudi Arabia-backed series with ties to Mohammed bin Salman. The country’s crown prince, according to U.S. intelligence officials, authorized the plan that led to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

 

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It’s really funny how the PGA is trying to make this a war of what said they are on.

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