Tiger Woods expects golf to ‘heal quickly’ when PGA Tour gets deal with Saudis

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tiger Woods expects the fractured landscape of golf to “heal quickly” when the PGA Tour and the Saudi backers of rival LIV Golf reach an agreement that appears to be imminent.

Woods is the only player on the PGA Tour board without term limits and has been active in negotiations between PGA Tour Enterprises and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.

. Woods flew home to Florida when his mother died unexpectedly.

“I think that things are going to heal quickly,” Woods said Sunday in the CBS booth at the Genesis Invitational, where he is the tournament host.

“We’re going to get this game going in the right direction,” he said. “It’s been heading in the wrong direction for a number of years and the fans want all of us to play together, all the top players playing together and we’re going to make that happen.”