Wednesday afternoon, hours before his return to the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods sat before a bank of microphones and uttered a line that would have lit the golf world on fire just a couple years ago.
“Ultimately,” Woods said, “we would like to have PIF be a part of our tour and a part of our product.”
“PIF” is the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, the source and driving force of golf’s current bone-deep schism.
Funny how perception can change completely in just a few short years.
Two years ago, Phil Mickelson turned the golf world upside down with his thoughts about Saudi Arabia’s regime and its potential effect on the PGA Tour.