PGA Tour and LIV Golf negotiations could keep Woods from Ryder Cup post

Negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf backers the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF) are progressing, Tiger Woods said on Tuesday, but with much work still ahead that could keep him from taking on the job of U.S. Ryder Cup captain.

A director on the PGA Tour policy board that is trying to hammer out an agreement with the PIF, Woods has had a very full plate while preparing for this week's PGA Championship at the Valhalla Golf Club.

The 48-year-old, who also sits on the PGA Tour Enterprises board, has had to juggle several new business ventures along with the possibility of leading the U.S. against Europe when they host the Ryder Cup next year at Bethpage Black.

"We're still talking," said Woods, about the Ryder Cup. "There's nothing that has been confirmed yet, we're still working on what that might look like.

"Also whether or not I have the time to do it, I need to feel that I can give the amount of time that it deserves.

"We're working on negotiations with PIF. It's ongoing; it's fluid; it changes day-to-day.

"We're making steps and it may not be giant steps, but we're making steps."

Negotiations appear to be reaching a crucial moment with Jimmy Dunne, one of the key architects of the initial framework agreement between the PGA Tour and PIF, announcing on Monday he was stepping away from the policy board citing no meaningful progress was being made towards a deal.

Las week it was reported that one of the golf's leading voices Rory McIlroy had his return to the policy board blocked by a small group of players, including business partner Woods, who dismissed the idea of any friction as nothing more than a difference of opinion.

"I think that we see it differently," said the 15-times major winner. "But