Tiger Woods joins Rory McIlroy in calling for LIV Golf boss Greg Norman to step down to make peace with PGA Tour
Tiger Woods may not be competing at the Hero World Challenge 2022, but that doesn’t mean he’s still not the center of attention. At his first press conference in more than four months on Tuesday, Woods donned his commissioner hat. While not officially taking over the position, the 15-time major champion has received a lot of questions around potential peace talks between the PGA Tour and rival league LIV Golf, and exactly what. What needs to happen for those discussions to happen?
“I see that there’s still a chance if both organizations put their litigation on hold, but that’s the point, they have to pause. And whether they do that or not, there’s no good faith in negotiating if they don’t. you have a lawsuit against you,” Woods said. “So if they both stay and then take a break, then they can get together and figure something out, then maybe there’s something to be had.
“But I think Greg [Norman] must go first, then obviously litigation against us and then our counter-suit against them, then those people will also have to stay. Then we can talk, we can all talk freely.”
The terms of the compromise were clear to Woods. Drop the lawsuit, release Norman, then the two golf federations can sit together at the negotiating table. The 46-year-old man’s words echo those of his good friend and business partner Rory McIlroy, like-minded ahead of the DP 2022 World Tourism Championship.
“It has to start with leadership on their part,” Woods said. “Understand that what’s happening right now isn’t the best… it’s not the best fit or future for the whole game of golf. Now, the best way for our game to play out. But, of course, you need to have two bodies fused together. If one side has too much hatred, someone is trying to sabotage our tour, then How will you handle it?”
LIV Golf and the PGA Tour are battling two court battles with an antitrust lawsuit from LIV Golf claiming that the PGA Tour unlawfully suspended players competing in LIV Golf events, while LIV Golf a lawsuit from the PGA Tour claims LIV interfered with a player’s contract.
Once those legal proceedings are settled and Norman is potentially dropped, what will the compromise between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf even look like? with Who cared for, even Woods admits he has trouble seeing What?.
“We don’t know. No one knows,” Tiger said of what the middle point between the two tours would be. “Right now, — there’s a lot of animosity, especially from their leadership. And they want to be an authentic tour with world ratings and they’re buying tours. around the world, and I don’t know — I don’t know what their last game was.
“It could be just becoming a full member of the golf ecosystem and being recognized with a world ranking score. I think that’s their intended goal. You know, they could have spent close to that. 2 billion dollars this year Who can say they can’t You don’t spend 4 or 5 billion dollars next year Nor does it necessarily create a legacy. You want to compare yourself to [Ben] Hogan, you want to compare yourself to [Sam] Snead, you want to compare yourself to [Jack] Nicklaus, you can’t do it there, but you can on this Tour.”
