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While Tiger Woods may not be participating in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, his presence will be felt on the grounds of Wilmington Country Club on Tuesday. Woods is expected to fly into Wilmington, Delaware, to lead a meeting among the top-20 players in the world and some of the most influential figures in the game to garner support among his PGA Tour counterparts in their fight against the rival upstart LIV Golf, according to media reports.
The meeting reportedly will take place at the site of the 2022 BMW Championship — the second FedEx Cup Playoffs event — and will follow a PGA Tour Player Advisory Council meeting which will introduce Max Homa, Brandt Snedeker, Keith Mitchell and Kevin Streelman as replacements for previous members Brooks Koepka, Graeme McDowell and Paul Casey, who have defected to LIV Golf.
“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 player who will be attending the meeting told ESPN.
This meeting may include some difficult dialogue for attendees as the Fire Pit Collective’s Alan Shipnuck reported: “Supposedly everything is on the table, from major championship boycotts to [PGA Tour commissioner Jay] Monahan’s future to a larger compromise.”
Monahan is expected to meet with players on Wednesday.
All of this is just the latest in what has been a well-documented battle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. Most recently, a federal judge out of San Jose, California, denied a temporary restraining order for LIV Golf participants Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford as they wished to play in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Some of the biggest critics to LIV Golf have included Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Billy Horschel, but Woods has not been silent on the matter and made his thoughts known at the 150th Open at St. Andrews in July.
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