“I think what they’ve done is they’ve turned their backs on what has allowed them to get to this position.\u0022
He started early at his news conference, fielding a question about the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews’s decision to disinvite Greg Norman because of the distracting noise Norman’s presence might cause given his chairmanship of the LIV Tour.
“I still don’t see how that’s in the best interests of the game. What the European Tour and what the PGA Tour stands for and what they’ve done, and also all the professional – all the governing bodies of the game of golf and all the major championships, how they run it. I think they see it differently than what Greg sees it.”
“Some of these players may not ever get a chance to play in major championships. . . . We don’t know that for sure yet. It’s up to all the major championship bodies to make that determination. But that is a possibility, that some players will never, ever get a chance to play in a major championship, never get a chance to experience this right here, [or] walk down the fairways at Augusta National. That, to me, I just don’t understand it.
Woods did pronounce himself “very optimistic” about the sport’s future, noting “the greatest golf boom ever right now because of covid,” and how golf became an outdoor respite from indoor isolation. “Just look at the tour,” he said, “the average age is getting younger and younger, and they’re just getting better earlier and faster and they’re winning at earlier ages.
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