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An unnamed PGA Tour player told ESPN, "It's a meeting to get the
top 20 players in the world on the same page on how we can
continue to make the PGA Tour the best product in professional
golf."
A PGA Tour Player Advisory Council meeting is also scheduled for
Tuesday, and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is due to address
the players separately, per ESPN. Fire Pit Collective wrote:
"Supposedly everything is on the table, from major championship
boycotts to Monahan's future to a larger compromise (with LIV)."
The Saudi-funded LIV circuit, led by CEO Greg Norman, has pulled
numerous star players away from the PGA Tour with nine-figure
dollar guarantees. The LIV roster includes Dustin Johnson,
Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson,
Phil Mickelson, Spain's Sergio Garcia and South Africa's Charl
Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen.
Australia's Cameron Smith, currently ranked second in the world,
reportedly is about to leave the PGA Tour to join the LIV tour,
too.
Players who have competed in LIV events were suspended by the
PGA Tour, and last week a California court sided with the PGA
Tour in its decision to ban LIV players from the FedEx Cup
playoffs.
Woods publicly backed the PGA Tour amid a flood of defections
earlier this summer, saying ahead of the Open Championship, "I
disagree with (players jumping to LIV). I think that what
they've done is they've turned their back on what has allowed
them to get to this position. ...
"Some of these players may not ever get a chance to play in
major championships. That is a possibility. We don't know that
for sure yet. It's up to all the major championship bodies to
make that determination. But that is a possibility that some
players will never, ever get a chance to play in a major
championship, never get a chance to experience (the Open
Championship), walk down the fairways at Augusta National. That,
to me, I just don't understand it."
Woods declined an offer of more than $700 million to join LIV,
Norman said in a Fox News interview this month.
--Field Level Media
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