Minutes after Jon Rahm donned his LIV Golf letterman jacket on FOX Information, Tiger Woods posted a letter to his fellow PGA Tour gamers on his social media account.

As a newly directed Participant Director on the PGA Tour Coverage Board, Woods reassured his fellow members about the way forward for the PGA Tour—a circuit the place he has 82 profession victories.

He additionally known as for unity.

“The Participant Administrators have been doing every part we are able to to make sure the PGA Tour is greatest positioned to thrive for many years to come back,” the memo states.

“The ebbs and flows of our efficiency, the challenges we face and the alternatives we seize are what make our sport so dynamic. Regardless of our variations, there’s a lot extra that unites us than ever earlier than. Collectively, we’ve got a chance to ship an final result that greatest serves the pursuits of the membership [of the PGA Tour].”

Woods, together with fellow Participant Administrators Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Webb Simpson, Charley Hoffman, Peter Malnati, and Adam Scott, have been concerned in quite a few selections concerning the PGA Tour’s future.

However how that future will look stays unclear, because the letter didn’t supply a lot specifics. A very powerful side of this memo is the timing of its launch, because it was made public nearly instantly after Rahm pledged his allegiance to LIV Golf.

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Granted, the memo lists Dec. 1 as its discover date for PGA Tour members. However for a lot of the normal public, this was new materials that coincided with Rahm’s announcement on Dec. 7.

With Rahm bolting for LIV, alarm bells sounded everywhere in the golf world—particularly in Ponta Vedra Seashore, Florida, the place the headquarters of the PGA Tour is.

LIV Golf now employs two main champions from 2023 and 7 of the final 15 main champions courting again to 2020.

But, the letter Woods posted expresses confidence within the PGA Tour’s ongoing negotiations with the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund (PIF). The 2 sides have a self-imposed deadline of Dec. 31, 2023, to strike a proper deal.

“This has been a time of significant change for us all on the PGA Tour,” the letter reads.

“It’s also a time of great alternative.”

This memo additionally discloses obscure speaking factors concerning the tour’s present discussions with different personal fairness companies. The letter insists these “should not conventional ‘personal fairness’ teams as has been reported, however reasonably multi-decade oriented, strategic companions.”

Nicely, what does that imply?

Maybe that’s an allusion to Fenway Sports activities Group, the sports activities conglomerate that owns the Boston Crimson Sox, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Liverpool F.C., amongst different groups.

The group has reportedly proven curiosity in making a considerable funding within the PGA Tour.

On the flip aspect, possibly the PIF noticed Fenway Sports activities Group—and different American-based funding teams—as a risk to finalizing its framework settlement with the PGA Tour. That might clarify the PIF’s choice to throw an insurmountable amount of money Rahm’s approach.

Rahm, at the moment the third-ranked participant on this planet, was a large asset to the PGA Tour.

Now, he’s the face of LIV Golf, becoming a member of Cam Smith and Brooks Koepka because the triumvirate of the breakaway circuit.

However regardless of these variables, Woods and the Participant Administrators insist that the PGA Tour is working diligently in direction of an settlement by the tip of the 12 months. These discussions embrace potential fairness stakes for members, an concept supported by all attainable investor teams.

Whether or not that involves fruition, stays to be seen.

“We all know this has been a irritating and complicated 12 months,” the letter concludes. “As Participant Administrators, it’s our responsibility to symbolize you, the members of the PGA Tour, and we’re decided to get this proper.”

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in Via. You possibly can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Remember to try @_PlayingThrough too.