Adam Scott, Justin Thomas Pleased With Addition of Tiger Woods to PGA Tour Policy Board

Count Adam Scott among the players who is happy to see Tiger Woods join the PGA Tour Policy Board.

Scott, the 2013 Masters champion and longtime competitor in Woods's era, was among 40 players who signed a letter sent to commissioner Jay Monahan on Monday requesting changes to governance and appointing Woods to the board.

The Tour announced it had agreed to the changes within a day and put out word Tuesday that Woods, 47, would for the first time take a formal leadership role in Tour business.

"I applaud Tiger for volunteering to go up on the board," Scott said in Greensboro, N.C., where he is competing in the Wyndham Championship. “I think it's fantastic for the Tour moving forward and I think he also kind of has earned the right to have an opinion about how the Tour looks moving forward, to be honest."

Scott this year for the first time became part of the Player Advisor Committee (PAC), which gives feedback to the Tour on board members.

Like others, Scott has expressed concern over the way the "framework agreement" between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia came about.

Part of the changes announced Tuesday will give players more representation on the board, plus the understanding they will have final say in any deal made with the PIF.

"I think it's just to get that balance right," Scott said. "This is a players organization and off the back of some of the events this year and maybe in years past, it had felt like maybe that voice wasn't heard enough. I think the players have generally tried to get a bit organized recently and act responsible as members of this Tour and get that balance right going forward.

“I certainly don't think the players want to be running the Tour, that's for sure. We need a lot of help with that. But I think getting that balance right so that the membership is heard accurately is kind of what this is."

Justin Thomas, also playing the Wyndham Championship, had a similar outlook about the structural changes.

"I think it's important," he said. “I think it's very obvious last year that a pretty good amount of us were frustrated and taken back with how some things took place. We were just kind of put in a funky or tough position with how stuff was handled in the past.

“We want to have a say of what's going on because it is our tour as well and how it's structured and how it looks is important to us. So we would like to have a little bit of a say-so on how that looks."

Thomas, who is close to Woods, welcomed his involvement.

"He takes the future of the PGA Tour very seriously and he wants it to be in the best hands possible and it to be in the best position possible," Thomas said. “I think it would be very easy for someone like him, all he's done, just kind of like what do I need to do, I've made the Tour what it is, where it's at financially, all the sponsors, TV deals whatever, and it would be pretty easy for him to just hide under a rock the rest of his life and be just fine.

“But that's not who he is, he wants to continue to see the PGA Tour grow and succeed."