As Tiger Woods Meets With PGA Tour Pros, Rickie Fowler Critical of Jay Monahan’s Handling of LIV Threat

Tiger Woods met with some of the top 20 golfers on the PGA Tour Tuesday at an off-site hotel close to Wilmington Country Club, home of this week’s BMW Championship.

The topic was the ongoing threat of LIV Golf, which is expected to pick up the world’s No. 2 golfer and Open Championship winner Cameron Smith after the Tour Championship concludes next week.

Woods and fellow pro-Rickie Fowler met with the agenda, reportedly being ways for PGA Tour members to get on the same page when it comes to LIV and also take more ownership in the direction of the PGA Tour.

Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler touch down at Atlantic Aviation as they visit the @BMWchamps. pic.twitter.com/YK5Pnr3Suj

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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was not at the meeting, but he was expected to talk to players today prior to the start of the BMW Championship.

Fowler, meantime, was critical of Monahan’s response to LIV Golf in an interview with Golf Week.

Fowler explained:

“I’ve told the Tour and Jay when I’ve met with them that I don’t think they have handled it very well at all… A lot of the stuff that has happened in the last six months to a year and is starting to happen, to me they are reacting to it versus when the talks of Premier Golf League and LIV came about is when they should have been proactive and gotten in front of it.”

Monahan did suspend players who went on to play in LIV Golf events, but lawsuits over that ruling are pending, even though the PGA Tour did get a ruling in its favor when four golfers were denied entry into the FedEx Cup playoffs last week.

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