NASSAU, Bahamas – Within the late Nineties, Tiger Woods discovered himself on the flawed facet of a transfer to compensate U.S. Ryder Cup gamers, so information final month that the PGA of America was contemplating an identical plan was welcomed by the 15-time main champion.
“I must say that going again to my enjoying days, we had the identical dialog again in ’99, we didn’t need to receives a commission, we needed to offer more cash to charity, and the media turned it round towards us and stated we need to receives a commission,” Woods stated Tuesday on the Hero World Problem. “The Ryder Cup itself makes a lot cash, why can’t we allocate it to numerous charities?
“I hope they might get $5 million every and donate all of it to charity, totally different charities. I believe it’s nice. What’s flawed with that?”
In accordance with a report in The Telegraph final month, the PGA of America is poised to pay U.S. gamers $400,000 to play subsequent 12 months’s matches at Bethpage Black, though it’s unclear whether or not that cash would go on to the gamers or a charity of their selecting.
Some European gamers pushed again on the notion of getting paid to play the matches, together with Rory McIlroy. “I personally would pay for the privilege to play on the Ryder Cup,” he advised BBC Sports activities final month.
“If the Europeans need to pay to be within the Ryder Cup, that’s their choice to do this, that’s their staff,” Woods stated. “I do know when it’s on European soil that it subsidizes most of their tour, so it’s a huge occasion for the European tour and in the event that they need to pay to play in it, so be it.”
Woods and some U.S. gamers, together with Mark O’Meara, had been criticized in 1999 for pushing the PGA of America to supply gamers a portion of the proceeds from the matches. The PGA finally allotted $100,000 to every participant’s charity for the Brookline matches. It has since supplied charitable contributions per participant, as a lot as $200,000.
