Tiger Woods Attends Meeting With PGA Tour Players At BMW Championship Over LIV Golf Threat | Golf News

Tiger Woods will reportedly meet as many as 20 players, plus some of the most influential golfers yet to join the LIV Golf Series. Watch the BMW Championship on August 18, live on Sky Sports Golf from 5pm

Tiger Woods was reportedly one of the top players at the conference to discuss LIV golf

Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler headed to the BMW Championship for a player meeting on threats to the LIV Golf Invitational Series and the PGA Tour.

As the Fire Pit Collective and ESPN first reported late Monday night, Woods is expected to “build a following around the PGA Tour” among the world’s top players who have not yet defected to LIV. I was.

Attended by many of the world’s top 20 players and other influential PGA Tour members, the meeting reportedly lasted three and a half hours.

“It was all the top players on the same page,” an unnamed player at the gathering told ESPN.

The group apparently included Fowler, who stepped off the plane with Woods at the Philadelphia airport and climbed into the car with him to do the rest of the trip to Delaware.

A longtime fan favorite and sponsor magnet, Fowler has not won a Tour since February 2019 and has fallen to 173rd in the Official World Golf Rankings. Last week’s playoff opener FedEx He missed the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs in his championship at St.

Fowler has long been associated with LIV and confirmed that the Saudi-funded circuit had made him a big offer to make the jump. However, in an interview published Monday by Golfweek, Fowler indicated his willingness to stay on the PGA Tour despite the shortcomings.

Rickie Fowler failed to qualify for BMW Championship

“The Tour is a great place to play and we want to continue to be,” Fowler said. “But you can’t expect it to stay the same and always be the best if it makes sense.”

Woods reportedly held a similar meeting with several top players at Ireland’s JP McManus Pro-Am last month and hoped to continue the dialogue on a wider scale as an ambassador for the tour.

Rahm: It might have been a little awkward

Jon Rahm admitted on Tuesday that he “hadn’t paid any heed” to last week’s LIV Golf Court ruling.

LIV Golf members Tara Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones had sought a temporary restraining order to keep them out of the FedEx Cup playoffs, but U.S. District Judge Beth Loveson Freeman ruled. Endorsed the PGA Tour.

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Ahead of this week’s BMW Championship, Jon Rahm and Matt Fitzpatrick criticized LIV Golf players for taking legal action for trying to play in the competition.

“Well, you could say I paid no attention to it at all,” said the 27-year-old Spaniard. I saw a bunch of very tense people walking around the room, and I thought, ‘Something’s going on.

“I asked and heard what was going on. “

Former world number one Rahm was also asked whether tensions could have arisen if the court’s ruling favored LIV players.

“I think it can make things a little awkward,” he said.

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“They chose to leave the PGA Tour, choose to join another tour knowing the outcome, then come back and try to get a court and justice…with me.”

“But at the same time, they’re adults, aren’t they? They have a certain amount of freedom to do what they want, and that’s what they chose. If the judge allowed it, I wouldn’t say no one. It was probably awkward, but we’ll never know.”

Gooch, Swafford and Jones would have qualified for the FedExCup playoffs based on their place in the points standings had they not been suspended from LIV events without the consent of the PGA TOUR.

Watch the BMW Championship live on Sky Sports from Thursday. Live Featured Group coverage will begin at 2:00pm via the red button before moving to Sky Sports Golf at 5:00pm.

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