Tiger Woods says he by no means obtained scripted feedback, purportedly ready by the PGA Tour, that now are a part of a federal lawsuit.
Multiple retailers reported Monday that the remarks are amongst 357 pages of emails and different paperwork included in an antitrust lawsuit involving the PGA Tour filed within the fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Fla.
The feedback linked to Woods reportedly have been ready for him to ship to gamers at a gathering on the Travelers Championship in June 2022. At the time, the LIV Golf circuit just lately had accomplished its first occasion, and Woods was amongst these working to buoy the PGA Tour following participant defections. He attended a gamers assembly in Wilmington, Del., final August to debate the PGA Tour’s response to LIV.
According to Golf Digest, which reviewed the paperwork, the speaking factors ready for Woods embrace him saying PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was “the right guy for this war” and that tour gamers ought to denounce Saudi-funded LIV Golf.
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“Do what I did: tell the Saudis to go themselves. And mean it,” learn the feedback.
Woods reportedly turned down lots of of hundreds of thousands to hitch LIV.
On Sunday evening on Twitter, Woods wrote that he didn’t attend the Travelers Championship final yr and that he by no means noticed practically two full pages of speaking factors reportedly ready for him.
“In response to the talking points memo released this weekend, I have never seen this document until today, and I did not attend the players meeting for which it was prepared at the 2022 Travelers,” Woods wrote.
The 35-word Twitter put up marks Woods’ first public feedback concerning the proposed merger between the LIV, DP World Tour and PGA Tour.
According to GolfChannel.com, the remarks written for Woods additionally included one about his teenage son, Charlie:
“You know, Charlie is a pretty good player … maybe some day he will be a professional golfer at the highest level. When and if that happens, I want him to be a PGA Tour member, and I want the PGA Tour to look like it does now – only better.”
Woods, 47, has been sidelined from aggressive golf a lot of the previous two years after sustaining a severe proper leg harm in a single-car crash in February 2021. In April, he underwent surgical procedure to deal with lingering points associated to the harm.