Rory McIlroy didn’t avoid the PGA Tour’s coverage board for lengthy.
The four-time main champion from Northern Eire will return as a participant director on the coverage board and sit on the board of PGA Tour Enterprises, the Guardian reported Monday.
McIlroy stepped again from the coverage board in November following the dramatic tussle between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-financed LIV Golf and the organizations’ subsequent “framework settlement” for a merger.
In accordance with the report, nevertheless, Webb Simpson has submitted his resignation from the coverage board with an “specific request” that McIlroy take his seat.
McIlroy would should be authorized by a vote on Wednesday, per the report. With friends like Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay holding votes, it’s unlikely McIlroy’s return would face any resistance.
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The PGA Tour and DP World Tour haven’t accomplished a ultimate merger settlement with LIV’s financiers, the Saudi Public Funding Fund (PIF), within the months since a self-imposed Dec. 31 deadline got here and went. Within the meantime, LIV poached its highest-profile golfer thus far in two-time main winner Jon Rahm. The Spaniard was ranked among the many prime three on the planet when he signed with LIV Golf in December.
The PGA Tour entered a separate partnership with Strategic Sports activities Group (SSG), a consortium of U.S.-based sports activities staff homeowners.
Including McIlroy as a participant director might gasoline hope {that a} take care of the PIF can transfer ahead, the Guardian reported. McIlroy, as soon as a pointy critic of LIV Golf, has since come to the place that males’s golf wants reuniting, with LIV gamers allowed again on the tour with out penalty.
The 34-year-old additionally denied a hearsay final week that he was provided $850 million to leap to LIV.