Tiger Woods headed to BMW Championship to repel LIV Golf movement

Tiger Woods is not playing in this week's BMW Championship but he is still headed to Wilmington Country Club for a PGA Tour meeting on how to tackle the LIV Golf Tour, according to ESPN. 

The report confirms that Woods will join 20 of the world's best PGA Tour players and a handful of other influential members who have yet to jump ship to the controversial Saudi-backed circuit led by Greg Norman. 

The meeting is set to take place after a scheduled PGA Tour Player Advisory Council meeting ahead of this week's second FedEx Cup Playoffs event.

"It's a meeting to get the top 20 players in the world on the same page on how we can continue to make the PGA Tour the best product in professional golf," a player who was invited to the meeting told ESPN. 

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan will also be meeting with PGA Tour members in a separate meeting, it is understood from ESPN. 

Alan Shipnuck, who broke the incredible Phil Mickelson comments at the start of the season, has taken to Twitter to reveal some insight into the meeting that Woods will be attending on Tuesday. 

"I’m hearing tomorrow’s PGA Tour player meeting regarding LIV is going to be a banger," tweets Shipnuck.

"Supposedly everything is on the table, from major championship boycotts to Monahan’s future to a larger compromise. And Tiger M.F. Woods is expected to fly in to provide counsel/bully/cajole."

I’m hearing tomorrow’s PGA Tour player meeting regarding LIV is going to be a banger. Supposedly everything is on the table, from major championship boycotts to Monahan’s future to a larger compromise. And Tiger M.F. Woods is expected to fly in to provide counsel/bully/cajole.

— Alan Shipnuck (@AlanShipnuck) August 15, 2022

These meetings come a week after three LIV Golf players Matt Jones, Talor Gooch and Hudson Swafford were refused a "TRO" by a federal judge to return to the Tour and compete in the first FedEx Cup Playoffs event last week. 

It also falls at a time where World No.2 and Open champion Cameron Smith has reportedly already agreed to join LIV Golf at the end of this month. 

Smith is expected to join the likes of Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia who have already defected to LIV Golf this season. 

Woods, like many of the world's best players right now, is strongly against all things LIV Golf, and he made his feelings well known during the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews last month. 

"I disagree with it," Woods said of LIV Golf. "I think that what they've done is they've turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position."

Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf, recently confirmed how Woods turned down in the region of $750 million to compete on LIV Golf. 

Woods continues to recover from his leg injuries sustained in his horror car crash in February 2021. 

He is expected to tee it up again later this year, though. 

Woods' caddie recently revealed what he expects Woods' schedule to look like ahead of the 2023 Masters. 

The former World No.1 was not eligible to compete in the FedEx Cup Playoffs as he did not make it into the top 125 in the standings prior to last week's FedEx St Jude Championship. 

Woods picked up just 11 FedEx Cup points this season, finishing 229th in the points race. 

He only played in three of the four major championships, finishing 47th at The Masters, withdrawing after three rounds at the PGA Championship and missing the cut at The Open. 

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