Stressing the need to have the desires heard of all PGA Tour players, veteran Adam Scott said he is ecstatic that Tiger Woods will be part of making that process happen.
On Tuesday, it was announced that Woods now is part of the board that will help steer the direction of the PGA Tour, which agreed to player demands that will prohibit making changes in the future without the approval of player directors. With Woods’ addition, players now outnumber independent board members by six to five.
“I applaud Tiger for volunteering to go up on the board,” Scott said Wednesday in advance of this week’s Wyndham Championship, which is the final event before the FedEx playoffs. “I think it’s fantastic for the Tour moving forward, and I think he also kind of has earned the right to have an opinion about how the Tour looks moving forward, to be honest.”
On Monday, a number of the PGA Tour’s members sent a letter to Jay Monahan, the tour’s commissioner, asking for changes to PGA Tour operations, driven by the decision to join forces with the DP World Tour and LIV Golf without player input.
In a statement Tuesday, Monahan said the tour and its members agreed to a number of conditions to make it a player-first organization. Among the agreements were the addition of Woods to the board.
And Scott, 43, said he thinks it’s a fine move.
“I think it’s just to get that balance right,” said Scott, a native of Australia, who has 14 PGA Tour victories, including the 2013 Masters. “This is a players’ organization and off the back of some of the events this year and maybe in years past, it had felt like maybe that voice wasn’t heard enough. I think the players have generally tried to get a bit organized recently and act responsible as members of this Tour and get that balance right going forward.”
Scott certainly has more to worry about. Sitting 81st in the FedEx Cup standings, he needs to make up 11 spots this week to advance to the opening round of the playoffs next week at TPC Southwind in Memphis. He is one of two players that have made every FedEx Cup playoffs since it began in 2007.
But the cause of the PGA Tour players remains on the forefront of his mind anyway.
“I certainly don’t think the players want to be running the Tour, that’s for sure. We need a lot of help with that,” Scott said. “But I think getting that balance right so that the membership is heard accurately is kind of what this is.”
–Field Level Media