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Tiger Woods attending PGA Tour meeting on LIV Golf

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On Monday, reports surfaced that Tiger Woods was planning to travel to Delaware on Tuesday in order to attend a meeting with other PGA Tour players to discuss the LIV Golf Invitational Series and its continued impact on professional golf.

The Saudi Arabia-backed circuit has poached several big-name players from the Tour with guaranteed contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars. And many insist the spending spree isn’t over as world no. 2 Cam Smith has been rumored to be next in the circuit’s crosshairs.

One player who was invited told ESPN that the meeting will include “influential PGA Tour members who haven’t defected to LIV Golf.”

A good number of the top-20 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are expected to attend, and on Tuesday, video caught Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler exiting a plane in Philadelphia, less than 30 miles from Wilmington Country Club, the host of this week’s 2022 BMW Championship.

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During their news conferences on Tuesday, both Jon Rahm and Patrick Cantlay commented on the upcoming meeting.

“Boy, news can be wrong sometimes. Yeah, there is a player meeting, but that’s all I can tell you about that,” Rahm said. “There’s also a PAC meeting. I don’t know if on the news they were talking about the PAC meeting or not. … I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t have Tiger’s phone number, so I can’t tell you if he’s coming or not.”

“Well, I’ve heard Tiger is the new commissioner, right?” Cantlay quipped. “That’s what everyone has been saying. I’m going to go to the meeting. I’m going to listen to what it’s all about, and I’ll probably have more for you later.”