Tiger Woods advocated for golfers participating in the Ryder Cup on the United States team to receive $1 million apiece to donate to charities of their choice.

"No, the Ryder Cup itself makes so much money, why can't we allocate it to various charities?" Woods told reporters at the Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bahamas on Tuesday, per Gabby Herzig of The Athletic.

"And what's wrong with each player, 12 players getting a million dollars and the ability to divvy out to amazing charities that they're involved in that they can help out? It's their hometowns, where they're from, all the different junior golf associations or endeavors that the members are involved in. It's never really been about getting paid, it's how can we allocate funds to help our sport or help things that we believe in back home, because it's so hard to get onto that team, there's only 12 guys. What's wrong with being able to allocate more funds?"

As Herzig noted, the PGA of America currently issues $200,000 to each American player to donate to charitable organizations. No professionals participating in the event are paid themselves.

Woods also added that he hopes players gets "$5 million each" and "donate it all" to charities.

On Nov. 13, James Corrigan of The Telegraph reported that American players could be in line to be paid $400,000 apiece for their Ryder Cup participation in 2025 when the event moves to Bethpage Black Course in Farmingdale, New York.

"The organising body of the American team has drawn up proposals that would see its golfers paid directly for the first time in the match's 97-year history. It is understood that a figure of $400,000 (£315,000) for each player has been put forward and insiders say it is likely to be ratified at board level.

"There are no plans for European players to be paid to appear.

"The ultimate decision will probably have to wait until a new PGA of America chief executive is appointed, yet after the issue boiled over at Marco Simone 12 months ago it must be thought that the status quo will not persist."

There was consternation at the 1999 Ryder Cup about pay from the American side, with Woods, David Duval and Mark O'Meara speaking out.

Woods cleared that position Tuesday.

"We didn't want to get paid; we wanted to give more money to charity," Woods said. "The media turned it around against us and said we want to get paid. No, the Ryder Cup makes so much money, why can't we allocate it to various charities?"

There was more talk about pay last year in Italy when the Ryder Cup took place. Stefan Schauffele, the father of two-time major champion Xander Schauffele, had this to say (in part) to Tom Kershaw of The Times of London:

"They are using players' intellectual properties to make money and the American players don't get paid," Schauffele said.

"More importantly, this would become a non-issue if all proceeds, net proceeds, from the Ryder Cup were to be donated to common charitable causes. Right now, the American players are asked to donate their time pro-bono in the name of patriotism so these organizations can benefit from the profits."

Next year's Ryder Cup won't begin until Sept. 26, but the pay topic and question isn't going away, especially if Woods has a lot to say on the matter.