Jordan Spieth was chosen to interchange Rory McIlroy as a participant director on the PGA Tour Coverage Board contemplating a Saudi-backed merger deal, tour commissioner Jay Monahan introduced on Monday.
Spieth, a 30-year-old American and three-time main winner, was chosen in a vote of the opposite 5 participant administrators on the panel — Tiger Woods, Webb Simpson, Peter Malnati, Charley Hoffman and Patrick Cantlay.
He’ll serve out the rest of McIlroy’s time period, which concludes on the finish of 2024.
McIlroy, a four-time main winner from Northern Eire, resigned from the board final week after its final assembly of the yr, saying he wished to dedicate extra time to his household, golf sport and enterprise pursuits.
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The coverage board is dealing with a year-end deadline to approve a framework settlement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, a merger deal unveiled in June that shocked tour gamers, together with McIlroy, who was advised of the deal solely hours earlier than it was introduced.
Negotiations are ongoing over phrases of the settlement, which might kind a partnership between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi backers of the LIV Golf League.
Whereas the framework settlement was seen as an answer to the LIV-PGA feud that has dominated golf for a lot of the previous two years, there are different non-public fairness affords to the tour to create a for-profit entity.
Spieth had served on the coverage board from 2019-21 after two years on the tour’s participant advisory council.
“Jordan has in depth expertise with the tour’s governance course of,” Monahan mentioned.
Australian Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters champion and present participant advisory council chairman, will substitute Hoffman on the coverage board when his time period expires on the finish of subsequent month.
The board membership consists of six gamers plus six unbiased administrators.