Tiger Woods is back in the news as he prepares to host the Hero World Challenge at Albany in the Bahamas. He had been due to play in the tournament, but he has developed plantar fasciitis in his right foot, which has forced him to withdraw.
Nevertheless, he still had plenty to say during a press conference before the tournament and touched on many of the game’s biggest issues. Here are eight of the biggest takeaways from Woods’ press conference.
‘Greg Has To Go’
Like Rory McIlroy, Woods appears adamant that there will be no breakthrough in the stalemate between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf unless the latter’s CEO makes way for someone new. Woods said: “I think Greg has to go, first of all, and then obviously litigation against us and then our countersuit against them, those would then have to be at a stay as well. So then we can talk, we can all talk freely.”
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He wasn’t finished there and reiterated his stance later on. When asked if the PGA Tour and LIV Golf could co-exist, he said: “Right now as it is, not right now, not with their leadership, not with Greg there and his animosity towards the Tour itself. I don’t see that happening. As Rory said and I said it as well, I think Greg’s got to leave and then we can eventually, hopefully, have a stay between the two lawsuits and figure something out. But why would you change anything if you’ve got a lawsuit against you? They sued us first.”
The Official World Golf Ranking Is ‘Flawed’
Woods also addressed another of the game’s controversial talking points in 2022 – the perceived unfairness of the Official World Golf Ranking, which some players have argued is weighted heavily in favour of the PGA Tour. He said: ”Yeah, OWGR, it’s a flawed system. That’s something we all here recognise. The field at Dubai got less points than Sea Island and more of the top players were there in Dubai, so obviously there’s a flawed system.
“How do you fix it? You know, those are meetings we’re going to have to have. We’re going to have to have it with the World Golf committee and as well as our – the main tours that are involved in it somehow come up with a better system than is in place now.”
He Won’t Use A Cart On The PGA Tour
Woods has struggled at times in the three tournaments he has played since returning from a leg injury sustained in 2021. However, he has ruled out using a golf cart in PGA Tour events.
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