In 130 days, the landscape of professional golf’s two major tours could look drastically different. That’s if a framework agreement between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund goes through on December 31, which commissioner Jay Monahan is confident it will. But those changes will at least have been approved by Tiger Woods, according to fellow policy board member Rory McIlroy.
On June 6, the PGA Tour entered into a framework deal with the Saudi sovereign fund, which finances LIV Golf, to immediately drop litigation between the two parties and create a new for-profit company, called PGA Tour Enterprises, in which the PIF will be a minority investor. The deal’s Dec. 31 deadline can be extended.
On Wednesday at the Tour Championship, McIlroy was asked what Woods’ involvement had been in the three weeks since he was appointed a…