Justin Thomas applauds Tiger Woods addition to PGA Tour board to aid overcome ‘roadblocks’

Before the Wyndham Championship, Justin Thomas mentioned the PGA Tour’s switch so to add Tiger Woods to its player coverage board.

He’s the first player to be in contact on the file about this decision, which change into as soon as announced roughly an hour sooner than Thomas talked to the media in Greensboro, North Carolina.

“I’m clearly inflamed to bask in Tiger [work] on behalf of the avid gamers,” Thomas acknowledged. “We’ve been dealt some roadblocks whenever you happen to will, or honest some refined situations. I mediate he takes it critically that he’s going to be a part of paving the design in which for the future and the novel—I issue I don’t know whenever you happen to could presumably presumably presumably be sharp to want to name it structure or whatever—of the PGA Tour.”

The roadblocks Thomas speaks of are relative to the PGA Tour’s pending kind out the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund (PIF), the beneficiary of LIV Golf.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and PIF Governor Yasir al-Rumayyan announced a ‘framework agreement’ on Jun. 6, which anxious the field.

It anxious avid gamers too, as no person knew that tour officers had been working on the aid of the scenes with the PIF.

Where the tour goes from right here stays to be viewed, hence the switch to elevate Woods in as a PGA Tour coverage board member.

Thomas change into as soon as one other player surprised by the news, but he furthermore knows what Woods technique to golf.

“I mediate it’d be very easy for any individual worship him, all he’s done, honest roughly worship, ‘what reach I want to reach, I’ve made the Tour what it is,’ [especially with] where it’s at financially, your whole sponsors, and TV deals,” Thomas added.

“It could well most likely presumably presumably be barely easy for him to honest conceal below a rock for the comfort of his life and be fine. But that’s not who he is; he wants to continue to scrutinize the PGA Tour develop and be triumphant.”

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Within the leisurely 1960s and early Seventies, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer helped create the PGA Tour and develop it into what it is on the novel time.

Those two titans of the sport passed on that legacy to Woods, who wants to create the PGA Tour even additional for future generations.

Now Woods, presumably the absolute best golfer of all time, will play an needed characteristic in key decision-making.

“We want to bask in a insist in what’s happening on chronicle of it is our tour,” Thomas added. “How it’s structured and the design in which it seems to be is crucial to us. So we would decide to bask in reasonably of little bit of a insist-so on how that seems to be.”

Woods could presumably presumably bask in masses of impact going forward, to the pleasure of Thomas and hurry masses of other avid gamers.

Jack Milko is a golf workers writer for SB Nation’s Playing Thru. You’d note him on Twitter @jack_milko for more golf coverage. Be definite to check out @_PlayingThrough too.