Tiger Woods will be capable of acquire entry to all PGA Tour signature occasions transferring ahead after the circuit’s coverage board voted Tuesday to grant him a particular exemption because of “distinctive lifetime achievement.”
The transfer will give Woods entry to the tour’s eight signature tournaments, all of which award massive prize cash and additional factors within the FedEx Cup standings regardless of possessing smaller fields than normal occasions.
The exemption was permitted when the coverage board met alongside the PGA Tour Enterprises board in Hartford, Conn., based on ESPN.
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The tour’s memo on the choice learn, per ESPN, “An extra sponsor exemption shall be created to recognise Tiger Woods in his personal class as a participant who has reached an distinctive lifetime achievement threshold of 80-plus profession wins.”
Woods owns 82 victories general, tied with Sam Snead for essentially the most in PGA Tour historical past, and 15 wins in main occasions, the second-best whole ever behind Jack Nicklaus’ 18.
Woods, 48, has performed few tournaments since a automobile crash in February 2021 that induced main leg accidents.
Final 12 months, he tied for forty fifth on the Genesis Invitational — the place he’s the host — and withdrew after making the lower on the Masters in his solely two begins of the season.
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Woods has performed simply 4 instances this 12 months. He withdrew in the midst of the Genesis Invitational and missed the lower on the PGA Championship and final week’s U.S. Open. Within the one occasion he accomplished, he completed sixtieth on the Masters. He’s scheduled to tee it up on the Open Championship in Scotland in mid-July.
The final of the 12 months’s eight signature occasions on the PGA Tour, the Vacationers Championship, is scheduled for this week in Cromwell, Conn. The others are The Sentry, AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am, The Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship and the Memorial.
The Genesis, Arnold Palmer Invitational and Memorial function 36-hole cuts, whereas the opposite signature occasions don’t. Nevertheless, ESPN reported that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan stated on the Tuesday assembly that discussions are underway about probably implementing cuts at every of the signature tournaments.