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If you’ve been following men’s professional golf for the past few months then you know how chaotic that world has been with the PGA Tour fighting for its life against an Saudi-funded exhibition league that has all the money in the world to spend on players to play in events that have no meaning at all.
Things are reportedly going to ramp up even more today as Alan Shipnuck of the Fire Pit Collective reported last night that Tiger Woods will be making a trip up to Delaware, site of this week’s BMW Championship, to talk with some players and reinforce his message that LIV is bad and the PGA Tour is good.
What will happen at this meeting? We don’t know.
What should happen at this meeting? PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan should step aside and give the keys of the Tour to the GOAT, Tiger Woods, and let him become the new boss.
Could this actually happen? Probably not. But if Monahan really wants to protect the Tour and do the right things to make sure it sticks around then there is no better way to do it than to allow Tiger to become the commissioner.
This would absolutely be a drastic move, of course, but it is beyond time for the PGA Tour to start making such moves.
Is this something Tiger would even want to do? I have no idea. He’s a billionaire who doesn’t need to spend his time in meetings and planning things and whatnot.
But Tiger can’t play a lot any more because of his injuries, he has basically built the Tour into what it is today, the players love him, and his words carry a lot more weight that Monahan’s.
One anonymous PGA Tour player told ESPN the following about today’s meeting:
“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.”
What better way to get everyone on board than to put their hero, Tiger Woods, in charge of it all? He’s been the face of the Tour since he said “Hello world” at that press conference way back in 1996. He is the needle. And he is the GOAT.
Am I living in a dream world? Perhaps. I just know over the past few months we’ve seen a lot of wild things happen in golf, including a bunch of things we never thought would ever happen.
So with that history it isn’t crazy to think that making Tiger Woods the boss of the PGA Tour is something that could actually happen. I hope it does because, again, it’s time for the PGA Tour to get aggressive and think outside the box and change things up.
Tiger Woods could do all of that.
Quick hits: Did La Russa listen to a fan?… Funny Scherzer and deGrom meme… USMNT’s awful World Cup jerseys… And more.
– It sure seemed like Tony La Russa listened to a fan in the stands before putting in a pinch runner.
– Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom having a deep conversation on the bench became a hilarious meme.
– The USMNT’s 2022 World Cup jerseys apparently leaked on social media and everyone hated them.
– Adam Sandler and Happy Gilmore were so happy for Will Zalatoris after his first PGA Tour win.
