![]() Everyone has their opinion about it, but we need to come to a collective decision. There’s been a lot of talk from whether it’s the PAC or the board or from players internally. ![]() A lot of us are concerned about what is the direction where we’re going and how can we have more control over that. We barely had cell phones, barely had the internet. “Probably what we didn’t understand at the time even when I first came out here over 25 years ago is where our Tour would go, where our media would go. If you remember Larry wanted to unionize our Tour and we went through that whole process. “Yeah, that’s something that - we’ve struggled with that for decades really. Tiger took a deep breath, then delivered a 320-word soliloquy in which he didn’t take sides but did reveal a striking amount of insight. The question came from the Associated Press‘s Doug Ferguson, who wondered, did Tiger share Phil Mickelson’s gripes with the PGA Tour over its usage of his media rights? It happened so quickly and sounded so similar to the answers that came before and after, it’d have been easy to miss. On Wednesday at the Genesis, well past the 20-minute mark of his press conference, Tiger broke from form. Tiger Woods speaks to media at the Genesis Invitational. When he says nothing, we hear it, and when he says something, anything of substance, we listen. ![]() In other words, Tiger’s talents with media might not raise to his ability with a golf club, but they’re both worth praise. He answers only the questions he’s asked, generally in as few words as he can muster, with the unstated aim of producing nothing of substance. With rare exception, he remains true to his early-intervention public relations training ( Earl was an Army PIO for most of his childhood). In his press conferences, that manifests itself largely in boredom. It’s just that Tiger treats public statements the same way most of us treat trips to the dentist: necessary, but preferably as infrequent, painless and brief as possible. (Wednesday’s presser at the Genesis Invitational reminded us Woods even keeps nicknames for some reporters.) Like any longstanding coworkers, each party has respect for the other’s duty to his role. It’s not that the 15-time major champion’s relationship with reporters is contentious. If a quarter-century of Tiger Woods press conferences have taught us anything, it’s not to get our hopes up. Phil's media rights comments caught Tiger's attention - but why?
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