McIlroy hails Tiger's leadership after players-only meeting

WILMINGTON, Delaware－Tiger Woods showed up for a private meeting of top PGA Tour players dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved plaid shirt. By the sound of his impact, he might as well have been wearing a Sunday red shirt.

"I think it's pretty apparent that whenever we all get in the room, there's an alpha in there," Rory McIlroy said Wednesday. "And it's not me."

Exactly what came out of the Tuesday night meeting at Hotel Du Pont is more of a mystery, even down to the number of players in attendance. The purpose was to unify, not only against the threat of a rival league funded by Saudi money, but shoring up any weaknesses in the tour.