NASSAU, Bahamas – Tiger Woods helps the concept 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 over time.
“I would have to say that going back to my playing days, we had the same conversation back in ’99 and it was we didn’t want to get paid, we wanted to give more money to charity, and the media turned it around against us and said we want to get paid,” Woods mentioned on Tuesday throughout a press convention forward of the Hero World Problem. “No, the Ryder Cup itself makes so much money, why can’t we allocate it to various charities? And what’s wrong with each player, 12 players getting a million dollars and the ability to divvy out to amazing charities that they’re involved in that they can help out? It’s their hometowns, where they’re from, all the different junior golf associations or endeavors that the members are involved in.”
In an Aug. 11, 1999 story in the Washington Publish, Woods mentioned: “I would like to see us receive whatever the amount is, whether it’s $200,000, $300,000, $400,000, $500,000 and I think we should be able to keep the money and do whatever we see fit. I personally would donate all of it to charity. With all the money that’s being made, we should have a say in where it goes.”
The PGA Tour started giving a $250,000 stipend to opponents starting on the 2022 Presidents Cup, which they now not are required to present to charity. A Tour spokesman advised Golfweek in October that it was contemplating following swimsuit for Ryder Cup gamers. Sources mentioned that it will 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 would get $5 million each and donate it all to charity, different charities. I think it’s great. What’s wrong with that?” he mentioned.
Rory McIlroy of Crew Europe celebrates profitable his level on the seventeenth inexperienced in the course of the Sunday singles matches of the 2023 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf Membership on October 01, 2023, in Rome, Italy. (Picture by Naomi Baker/Getty Pictures)
Rory McIlroy, talking in Dubai not too long ago, mentioned he’d be keen to pay to play within the Ryder Cup. He added: “I don’t think any of the 24 players on either team needs that 400 grand. Every two years, there are 104 weeks and 103 weeks you can play golf and get paid.”
“That’s fine, that’s their right to say that,” Woods mentioned. “I just think that the event is so big that I think that we can give so much money to different charities, and I’ve said that since ’99 when we had the Brookline negotiations. If the Europeans want to pay to be in the Ryder Cup, that’s their decision to do that, that’s their team. I know when it’s on European soil that it subsidizes most of their Tour, so it is a big event for the European Tour and if they want to pay to play in it, so be it.”
Woods added: “It’s never really been about getting paid, it’s how can we allocate funds to help our sport or help things that we believe in back home, because it’s so hard to get onto that team, there’s only 12 guys. What’s wrong with being able to allocate more funds?”
