Tiger Woods and Bryson DeChambeau
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Tiger Woods and Bryson DeChambeau are among more than three dozen notables and stakeholders who have been invited to a White House roundtable intended to explore solutions to problems in college sports, Yahoo Sports reported Thursday.
Woods and DeChambeau have been asked to join college conference and professional sports commissioners, athletic directors, university presidents, former coaches, media executives, and business and political figures for the Friday roundtable to be chaired by President Donald Trump, who has pledged to support college athletics as it grapples with evolution into a more professionalized entity and confronts the issue of how to compensate athletes.
Woods played golf for two years at Stanford University before turning professional in 1996, while DeChambeau played at Southern Methodist University for three years before turning pro in 2016. READ MORE
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Compiled by Mike Cullity
