ゴルフ-Tiger 支持を得ようと努めるd laments '騒然とした' time for ゴルフ
By Rory Carroll
LOS ANGELES, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Tiger 支持を得ようと努めるd said he did not know how he felt about 直面するing golfers who had left the PGA 小旅行する for 競争相手 LIV ゴルフ for the first time at April's Masters but 定評のある that the 後援ing of the sport had taken a （死傷者）数.
"I don't know what that reaction is going to be," said 支持を得ようと努めるd, who will tee it up at the PGA 小旅行する's Genesis Invitational this week.
"I know that some of our friendships have certainly taken a different path, but we'll see when all that transpires. It's still a couple of months away."
Players from the warring 回路・連盟s will break bread at the Masters 伝統的な pre-tournament 支持する／優勝者s' dinner, and 支持を得ようと努めるd said the 焦点（を合わせる） should be on 統治するing tournament 支持する／優勝者 Scottie Scheffler にもかかわらず the obvious 緊張s.
"We need to make sure Scottie is 栄誉（を受ける）d 正確に while also realizing the nature of what has transpired," he said.
"The people who have left, where our 状況／情勢s are 合法的に, emotionally -- there's a lot there."
Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka are の中で the big 指名するs who have left the PGA 小旅行する for the lucrative, Saudi-支援するd LIV ゴルフ. While banned from PGA 小旅行する events, LIV players have been 招待するd to compete at the Masters.
LIV ゴルフ's 就任の season last year and the その後の 論争s and 訴訟s had been "very 騒然とした" for the sport, 支持を得ようと努めるd told reporters at the Riviera Country Club in 太平洋の Palisades.
"We never would have 推定する／予想するd the game of ゴルフ to be in this 状況／情勢 but it is. That's the reality," he said.
"They're a 競争の激しい organization trying to create the best 製品 they かもしれない can and we're also trying to create the best 製品, which we think is the 未来 of ゴルフ and how it should be played.
"How do we do that? We're still working on it."
支持を得ようと努めるd called world number one Rory McIlroy the PGA 小旅行する's "外交官／大使" and said he had been 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の at navigating the new, and at times 敵意を持った, 地形.
McIlroy （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 LIV ゴルフ's Patrick Reed by one 一打／打撃 at last month's Dubai 砂漠 Classic after the American, who is taking 合法的な 活動／戦闘 on different 前線s, threw a tee in the direction of the Northern Irishman, whom he had 召喚状d over Christmas.
"It's been 堅い on him and he's been exceptional," 支持を得ようと努めるd said.
"I've been on all of these 会議／協議会 calls, these 味方する 会合s, and for him to go out and play and 勝利，勝つ, it's been incredible." (報告（する）／憶測ing by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles, 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Frank Pingue; editing by Clare Fallon)
