PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Tiger Woods hosted the meeting with the head of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia at his residence in the Bahamas on Monday that was a viewed as a “meet and greet and learn” session to potential future investment in PGA Tour Enterprises.
Webb Simpson, one of the six player directors on the PGA Tour Policy Board, said Woods “was very engaged” and that “outside of our meeting he’s been super engaged along the way. He’s a great leader and I really think he’s taken the position of our leader and we rely on him a lot.”
Simpson, who is playing in this week’s Valspar Championship, said in an interview Wednesday at the Innisbrook Resort that the meeting with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of the PIF, which backs the LIV Golf League, “was the next right thing to do. I don’t know what exactly it’s going to look like in a year or two or three or five. It felt like it was the next right thing.”
