Since the merger between the PGA and LIV tours announced a few weeks ago, the tone has diminished in the ranks of golfers, among others Tiger Woods, who on Monday reversed information relating to a players’ meeting held last year. last.
At the heart of the conflict between the two entities, the commissioner of the PGA, Jay Monahan, had planned a very morning meeting on June 21, 2022, on the sidelines of the Travelers Championship. Also, the agenda and the written report of it were made public by the court of the county of Palm Beach which was charged to examine the lawsuit brought by golfers of LIV against their former organization.
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According to the papers in question, Woods delivered a fiery speech to his PGA colleagues, urging them to continue the fight against the enemy circuit. Except that on Sunday, the “Tiger” denied everything.
“To respond to the points presented by the memo published at the end of the week, I must say that I have never seen this document before today and I did not attend the meeting for which it was prepared”, has he wrote on Twitter.
Nebulous
However, the details of the presentation are numerous on the pages available to the court. In the plan, it is mentioned among other things that Woods asks Monahan to leave the room just before starting his speech, in which he would have made the apology of the commissioner, in addition to advising the audience to remain firm in the fight against LIV and the Saudi investment fund financing its activities. However, did the whole thing really take place or did it remain in the state of a plan, as Woods seems to claim?
“Nothing, not even a legal maneuver, a strategic alliance or higher purses, can match the Saudis’ mountains of dollars. On the other hand, if we refuse to go there, no matter the amount of dirty money that they will offer us, it will be our lifeline,” Woods would have indicated through remarks that said document lends him.
The latter would have refused 700 to 800 million $ from LIV before the merger. His most recent participation in an event is that of the Masters Tournament. He had surgery on his ankle to treat a bone injury.