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Tiger Woods was surprisingly candid about his role as a player director on the PGA Tour policy board as he spoke to media in the Bahamas on Tuesday ahead of his return at this week’s Hero World Challenge. Woods joined the board in August alongside other players including Patrick Cantlay, Peter Malnati, Webb Simpson, Charley Hoffman and Rory McIlroy (who has since been replaced by Jordan Spieth), all of whom have been attempting to steer the Tour during its current negotiation with various entities that are attempting to invest.
Woods was clearly perturbed by the Tour’s secrecy in June when commissioner Jay Monahan and non-player board members Ed Herlihy and Jimmy Dunne reached a framework agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia — LIV Golf’s financial backer — to cease litigation and potentially negotiate a merger in the future. The trio did so with no player involvement, even from Woods and McIlroy, both of whom had been close to the situation throughout.
“I think the overall emotion [behind why I joined the policy board] is … we can’t let that happen again,” said Woods. “How do we do that, is having six player directors so we control the board and we control what we’re going to do. We’re not going to have what transpired in a few months without our involvement again.”
There was a sense on Tuesday that Woods wanted to reclaim ownership in the Tour for the players who make it up. Despite that, Tiger still has faith in commissioner Monahan, which is part of the reason he decided to join the policy board.
“I think Jay has been a part of the direction, he understands what happened prior to that can’t happen again and won’t happen again, not with the players that are involved and not with the player directors having the role that we have,” Woods said.
While Woods has enjoyed the control players have regained — it is a membership organization, after all — he did say…
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