NASSAU, Bahamas – If the PGA of America is searching for steering in what has grow to be a polarizing subject, they may look to the PGA Tour’s coverage on paying gamers to take part within the Presidents Cup.
In keeping with a report in The Telegraph final month, the PGA of America is contemplating a plan to pay gamers $400,000 to take part in subsequent 12 months’s Ryder Cup. The PGA of America declined to touch upon the report and a number of the recreation’s prime gamers weighed in on the subject this week on the Hero World Problem.
“I must say that going again to my enjoying days, we had the identical dialog again in ’99, we didn’t need to receives a commission, we wished to present extra money to charity, and the media turned it round in opposition to us and mentioned we need to receives a commission,” Tiger Woods mentioned Tuesday at Albany. “The Ryder Cup itself makes a lot cash, why can’t we allocate it to numerous charities?”
However whereas Woods leaned into the notion that any funds to gamers ought to go to a charity or basis there may be hypothesis that gamers can be averse to any stipulations on funds for Ryder Cup participation and the PGA of America has given cash ($200,000 not too long ago) to every Ryder Cup participant to donate to charity since 1999.
The Tour, nonetheless, reached a unique resolution when it altered its coverage concerning funds to Presidents Cup gamers in 2022. Every participant, on each the U.S. and Worldwide groups, is given a $250,000 “stipend.”
“The charitable mission of the Presidents Cup stays unchanged, with greater than $55 million donated to charity for the reason that Cup’s inception. The present charitable distribution plan ensures a long-lasting influence within the host metropolis or area of at the least $1 million,” a press release from the Tour learn. “As a part of the Tour’s total whole compensation program, distributions for the Presidents Cup have been adjusted to replicate the altering panorama of charitable giving, permitting gamers and captains the pliability to help their respective foundations or private charitable priorities.”
Gamers can use the Presidents Cup stipend for charities or foundations, however it’s not required.
Even when the PGA of America went with an analogous coverage to the Tour’s, any change would create an attention-grabbing dynamic between the U.S. group and the Europeans, who haven’t pushed for the same cost construction for the Ryder Cup.
“I personally would pay for the privilege to play on the Ryder Cup,” Rory McIlroy advised BBC Sports activities final month.
Funds from the Ryder Cup in Europe present essential income for the DP World Tour whereas the PGA of America makes use of its share of the income to help the affiliation’s varied applications. The PGA Tour does obtain a charge from the PGA of America that’s not directly given to gamers in varied methods together with the circuit’s profitable retirement program.
