Tiger Woods gives optimistic PGA Tour, LIV Golf updates

Tiger Woods joined Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman in the broadcast booth and briefly discussed pro golf’s future.

LA JOLLA, Calif. — Tiger Woods has been busy behind the scenes, working alongside the PGA Tour to reshape the future of professional golf as they continue to negotiate with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), LIV Golf’s beneficiary.

Woods, along with Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Peter Malnati, Webb Simpson, and Camilo Villegas, is a director on the Player Advisory Council (PAC). Because of his position on the PAC, Woods has met with the PIF, worked countless hours with PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, and played golf with and discussed the sport’s future with President Donald Trump.

On Feb. 4, ahead of the WM Phoenix Open, Woods was supposed to join Scott and Monahan in Washington, D.C., for a meeting with the President at the White House. However, he could not attend as his mother, Kultida, passed away that morning.

Despite that, Woods provided an update on golf’s future during the final round of the Genesis Invitational. He made these comments while sitting in on the CBS broadcast.

“I think we’re in a very positive place right now. We had a meeting with the President. Unfortunately, I had some other circumstances that came up, but Jay and Adam, they did great during the meeting, and we have another subsequent meeting coming up,” Woods said to Jim Nantz, Trevor Immelman, and everyone tuning in from home.

“I think that things are going to heal quickly. We’re going to get this game going in the right direction. It’s been heading in the wrong direction for a number of years, and the fans want all of us to play together, all the top players playing together, and we’re going to make that happen.”

Woods added that a solution could come as early as this year, which somewhat aligned with what Monahan said on Feb. 12.

“It was a very productive visit. I think you all have been around him enough to know how passionate [the President] is about the game of golf,” Monahan said ahead of the Genesis Invitational.

“For [the President] to respond to our request to sit down and talk about how we achieve what he stated publicly as a goal, which is the game of golf operating under one tour with all the top players playing on that one tour, was a great opportunity. We had a really productive conversation.

“What it means is the reunification of the game, which is what we have been and are focused on. Candidly, that’s what fans want. So when you talk about reunification, that’s all the best players in the world competing with each other and against each other.”

Monahan did not provide a timeline for ‘reunification’ when speaking on the Wednesday before the tournament. But Woods hinted that it would happen soon, much to the delight of golf fans everywhere.

Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Follow him on X @jack_milko.