PGA Tour sets 2024 Player Advisory Council
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The PGA Tour also reportedly has teamed with United States-based Strategic Sports Group.
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LOS ANGELES – The PGA Tour announced the 16 members who will serve on the Player Advisory Council (PAC) in 2024, a pivotal year that will help shape the future of the tour.
Nine players have agreed to join the PAC, which the PGA Tour said “advises and consults” with the PGA Tour policy board and commissioner Jay Monahan.
Among the topics facing the PGA Tour leadership is the ongoing negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund over how to achieve a partnership that involves the LIV Golf League and DP World Tour.
Scottie Scheffler was quoted by NBC Sports: “I think you’ve seen kind of more players become more involved in stuff with the tour in the past year. I think with LIV that’s kind of an obvious deal that we had to make a few changes in order to improve our tour in a different way.
“For me having an opportunity to be on the PAC and talk with guys across all different levels of our tour, whether it’s a guy finishing 100th on the money list or first, it’s kind of nice to be in the room and have those conversations and figure out what is collectively going to work best for all of us so that this tour can succeed.”
The PGA Tour also reportedly has teamed with United States-based Strategic Sports Group, which is making a cash investment to help fund a new for-profit entity, PGA Tour Enterprises.
Newly appointed to the council are Lanto Griffin, Nick Hardy, Grayson Murray, Seamus Power, Adam Schenk, Nick Taylor, Josh Teater, Justin Thomas and Camilo Villegas, replacements for outgoing players.
Griffin and Murray are among 20 players who sent a letter to the board in December insisting that all discussions about the tour’s future be transparent.
Returning members of the council are Sam Burns, Brian Harman, Max Homa, Mackenzie Hughes, Keith Mitchell, Kevin Streelman and Scheffler.
The board asked Streelman and Villegas to run for chairman of the PAC in an election that ends Feb 27.
Griffin said previously: “A guy like Streelman would be great for the board. But seriously, who would want this job? I wouldn’t want this job. It’s like being president of the United States. You’d have to be a full-on narcissist to want that job.”
The winner will replace Jordan Spieth on the board on Jan 1 and serve a three-year term. Other players on the PGA Tour policy board are Patrick Cantlay, Peter Malnati, Adam Scott, Webb Simpson and Tiger Woods. REUTERS
