NASSAU, Bahamas – Tiger Woods helps the thought of American gamers being paid to play within the Ryder Cup – however with one stipulation. He mentioned gamers ought to give their share to charity.
Woods’s sentiment has remained constant through the years.
“I must say that going again to my taking part in days, we had the identical dialog again in ’99 and it was we didn’t wish to receives a commission, we wished to offer extra money to charity, and the media turned it round towards us and mentioned we wish to receives a commission,” Woods mentioned on Tuesday throughout a press convention forward of the Hero World Problem. “No, the Ryder Cup itself makes a lot cash, why can’t we allocate it to numerous charities? And what’s fallacious with every participant, 12 gamers getting one million {dollars} and the flexibility to divvy out to wonderful charities that they’re concerned in that they may help out? It’s their hometowns, the place they’re from, all of the totally different junior golf associations or endeavors that the members are concerned in.”
In an Aug. 11, 1999 story in the Washington Submit, Woods mentioned: “I would love to see us obtain regardless of the quantity is, whether or not it’s $200,000, $300,000, $400,000, $500,000 and I believe we must always have the option to preserve the cash and do no matter we see match. I personally would donate all of it to charity. With all the cash that’s being made, we must always have a say in the place it goes.”
The PGA Tour started giving a $250,000 stipend to rivals starting on the 2022 Presidents Cup, which they not are required to offer to charity. A Tour spokesman informed Golfweek in October that it was contemplating following go well with for Ryder Cup gamers. Sources mentioned that it could be greater than the $250,000. The Telegraph later reported the determine to be $400,000. Woods has upped the greenback quantity he’d prefer to see.
“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 fallacious with that?” he mentioned.
Rory McIlroy of Crew Europe celebrates profitable his level on the seventeenth inexperienced through the Sunday singles matches of the 2023 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf Membership on October 01, 2023, in Rome, Italy. (Photograph by Naomi Baker/Getty Photos)
Rory McIlroy, talking in Dubai not too long ago, mentioned he’d be prepared to pay to play within the Ryder Cup. He added: “I don’t suppose any of the 24 gamers on both workforce wants that 400 grand. Each two years, there are 104 weeks and 103 weeks you may play golf and receives a commission.”
“That’s tremendous, that’s their proper to say that,” Woods mentioned. “I simply suppose that the occasion is so massive that I believe that we can provide a lot cash to totally different charities, and I’ve mentioned that since ’99 after we had the Brookline negotiations. If the Europeans wish to pay to be within the Ryder Cup, that’s their choice to do this, that’s their workforce. I do know when it’s on European soil that it subsidizes most of their Tour, so it’s a massive occasion for the European Tour and in the event that they wish to pay to play in it, so be it.”
Woods added: “It’s by no means actually been about getting paid, it’s how can we allocate funds to assist our sport or assist issues that we consider in again dwelling, as a result of it’s so laborious to get onto that workforce, there’s solely 12 guys. What’s fallacious with having the ability to allocate extra funds?”
