Tiger Woods seems to be already flexing his 15-majors winning muscles less than a week after being appointed the newest member of the PGA Tour Policy Board.
It’s been reported by Adam Schupak, our good friend at GolfWeek , that Woods has helped rule out three leading PGA Tour events – his own Genesis Invitational, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial – from losing a 36-hole cut rule when the 2023/24 new season schedule is released next week.
Speculation had been rife that all of the PGA Tour’s designated events would be reduced to limited fields with no mid-way cut – a move that had widespread support from a number of top professionals including Rory McIlroy, Billy Horschel and Patrick Cantlay – but Woods was certainly not in favour of having his event become a guaranteed payout when it was put to him earlier this year at The Masters.
Woods said: “I certainly am pushing for my event to have a cut.
“I think that maybe the player-hosted events may have cuts. These are things that Jack and I are still in discussion with Jay and the board and the Tour and the rest of the guys. That still is in flux.
“I still think that there needs to be a penalty for not playing well, and to have that — every event shouldn’t be always guaranteed 72 holes.
“I think that there should be a cut there. But we are trying to figure that out.
“And you know, what designated events are going to be, how many are there going to be, that’s still ongoing. But that conversation is still being had.”
It is understood the new season PGA Tour schedule will be released on Tuesday.