Sources -- Tiger Woods to meet with group of players at BMW Championship, rally support for PGA Tour against rival LIV series

Tiger Woods is scheduled to meet with several of the top golfers in the world Tuesday in an effort to rally support around the PGA Tour in its ongoing battle with the rival LIV Golf series, sources confirmed to ESPN on Monday.

The meeting between Woods, a 15-time major champion, and the group of players is set to take place at the BMW Championship in Wilmington, Delaware, host of the second FedEx Cup playoff event that begins Thursday.

A player who was invited to attend the meeting told ESPN that it will include many of the top 20 players in the world and a handful of other influential PGA Tour members who haven't defected to LIV Golf. It will take place shortly after a previously scheduled PGA Tour Player Advisory Council meeting at Wilmington Country Club.

«It's a meeting to get the top 20 players in the world on the same page on how we can continue to make the PGA Tour the best product in professional golf,» a player who was invited to the meeting told ESPN on Monday.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is scheduled to meet with members in another meeting Wednesday, sources said.

Tuesday's meeting with Woods, which was first reported by Fire Pit Collective, will take place a week after a federal judge in San Jose, California, denied a temporary restraining order to three players — Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford — who had defected from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf and wanted to compete in the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Woods offered his sharpest criticism of players who abandoned the PGA Tour for the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf circuit at last month's Open Championship at St. Andrews. Several past major champions, including Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Bubba Watson, have been lured to the new