Tiger Woods desires Ryder Cup gamers to get appearances charges however cash to be donated to charity | Golf Information

Tiger Woods believes gamers ought to be financially rewarded for showing within the Ryder Cup however want to see all the cash go to charity.

Gamers have beforehand competed within the Ryder Cup with out receiving look charges, though there have been stories final month that the American crew are set to equally share a handbag from the PGA of America to characteristic in Keegan Bradley’s facet for the 2025 contest at Bethpage Black.

Woods was among the many People to name to be compensated for Ryder Cup appearances forward of the 1999 contest at Brookline, with the 48-year-old wanting it to be made out there for gamers to then donate elsewhere.

“We had the same conversation back in ’99 and it was we didn’t want to get paid, we wanted to give more money to charity, and the media turned it around against us and said we want to get paid,” Woods mentioned forward of the Hero World Problem, the place he’s event host.

“The Ryder Cup itself makes a lot cash, so why cannot we allocate it to varied charities? And what’s mistaken with every participant, 12 gamers getting 1,000,000 {dollars} and the flexibility to divvy out to superb charities that they are concerned in that they may help out?

“It is their hometowns, the place they’re from, all of the totally different junior golf associations or endeavours that the members are concerned in.

“It’s never really been about getting paid, it’s how can we allocate funds to help our sport or help things that we believe in back home, because it’s so hard to get onto that team, there’s only 12 guys. What’s wrong with being able to allocate more funds?”

Woods then added: “I hope they would get $5m each and donate it all to charity, different charities. I think it’s great. What’s wrong with that?”

A number of European gamers reacted to the hypothesis final month by saying they don’t must be paid to characteristic within the Ryder Cup, with Rory McIlroy telling the BBC final month that he would “pay for the privilege to play” within the occasion for Staff Europe.

“That’s fine, that’s their right to say that,” Woods added. “I simply assume that the occasion is so massive that I believe that we can provide a lot cash to totally different charities.

“I’ve said that since ’99 when we had the Brookline negotiations. If the Europeans want to pay to be in the Ryder Cup, that’s their decision to do that, that’s their team.

“I do know when it is on European soil that it subsidises most of their Tour, so it’s a massive occasion for the European Tour and in the event that they need to pay to play in it, so be it.”

‘Still getting through’ potential PGA Tour-PIF deal

Woods has been a prominent figure in negotiations between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, with the 15-time major champion remaining hopeful that a deal can be agreed to unite the men’s game.

“I believe one thing will get carried out,” Woods said. “In what kind or form, I do not know but.”

On the length of time it has taken to reach any deal, Woods admitted: “I believe all of us who’ve been part of this course of would have thought it might have occurred faster than this.

“Even if we had gotten a deal done by now, it’s still in the DOJ’s [Department of Justice] hands, but we wish we would have had something more concrete and further along than we are right now.

“However issues are very fluid, we’re nonetheless working by way of it, it is taking place each day. From a coverage board standpoint or from an enterprise standpoint, issues are shifting they usually’re constructive.”

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