As LIV Golf prepares for its fifth tournament, to be held in suburban Chicago, the organization’s commissioner and CEO, Greg Norman, said the new Tour has no intention of talking to the PGA about a possible truce between the players. two parts.
LIV Golf, financed by public investment funds from Saudi Arabia, has fought a good fight with the PGA to recruit the best golfers. Norman said he wanted to contact PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan in the past to find out how the two leagues could coexist. However, Norman is no longer interested in this action.
“We don’t have any interest in sitting with them anymore to be honest. Especially because our product works”, he mentioned in an interview with the daily The Australianearlier this week.
Monahan was not envious of meeting LIV Golf even though he had just seen champions in its ranks like Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Bubba Watson lose. These players have signed bonuses with the LIV amounting to $200 million.
Over twenty PGA members have transferred with the LIV. Monahan has suspended these golfers from all PGA competitions.
Norman insists further by explaining that the plans of the LIV, at the start, were to be an addition in the ecosystem of the sport.
“It’s always been an addition for all the circuits, he explains. This notion that we would try to destroy the other circuits is false. The PGA is trying to destroy us, it’s as simple as that. »
