Major champion rips into Tiger Woods and others on PGA Tour board

Lucas Glover has hit out at the likes of Tiger Woods and Patrick Cantlay by claiming PGA Tour players should not hold a majority when it comes to running business decisions on the PGA Tour. 

Glover, who won the US Open in 2009, believes player directors on the PGA Tour board including Woods, Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Webb Simpson and Peter Malnati 'should not be telling them how to run a business'.

After all, businessmen at the PGA Tour do not advise Woods on 'how to hit a 7-iron', admits Glover. 

The six-time PGA Tour winner made his feelings be known on Sirius XM PGA Tour following news that businessman Jimmy Dunne had resigned from the board with immediate effect. 

Dunne was a prime architect in the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) deal that was announced to the world last June. 

The former high-profile PGA Tour executive wrote a letter to the circuit's policy board on Monday confirming his decision to walk away was 'effective immediately'.

Dunne said 'no meaningful progress' had been made between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to find an agreement to end golf's 'civil war'.

Rory McIlroy was also rejected a chance to return to the policy board by Woods and co, it was confirmed last week. 

Reacting to the latest updates from the PGA Tour, Glover spoke out against the PGA Tour's player directors on the board, saying they have no place making business decisions.

"We have no business having the majority," Glover told Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio ahead of this week's US PGA at Valhalla.

"Tour players play golf. Businessmen run business. They don't tell us how to hit 7 irons. We shouldn't be telling them how to run a business.

"It needs to be right, and players that think they know more than Jimmy Dunne, players that think they know more than Ed Herlihy, players that think they know more than Joe Gorder, players that think they know more than Jay Monahan, when it comes to business, are wrong."

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