TIGER WOODS has been named as the sixth player-director on the PGA Tour’s policy board in response to anger at the proposed deal between golf’s rival factions.

Woods and Rory McIlroy were the highest-profile advocates of the PGA Tour but were, along with the rest of the players, kept in the dark before the shock announcement of a deal between the PGA Tour, The European Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which bankrolls LIV Golf.

Masters champion Jon Rahm said players felt a sense of “betrayal” that the deal was negotiated in secret, with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan facing calls to resign when the Framework Agreement was announced on June 6.

Olympic champion Xander Schauffele also admitted before last month’s Scottish Open that he and other players had lost a lot of trust in Monahan.

Woods becoming a player-director is part of what the PGA Tour announced today as “a new agreement to ensure that the Tour lives up to its mission of being a player-driven organisation, “for the players, by the players.”

It means the six player-directors will outnumber the five independent directors, with the PGA of America director on the board being a non-voting position.