‘Disappointed’ Greg Norman Makes Plea to the PGA Tour After Fulfilling LIV Golf Season

The LIV Golf Invitational Series has ended with the team event held at the Trump National Doral Miami Golf Club. Although one entire season, including eight events, has been over, they still have not found common ground with their rival, the PGA Tour. And Greg Norman, the LIV CEO, thinks it is the American Tour’s fault that they still treat each other as rivals. 

“That’s what has disappointed me the most,” Norman told Global Golf Post during the LIV Pro-Am at Miami. “There was always room – always, always, always room,” he added. “And there still is room for them (the PGA Tour) to sit down and understand what we have and what this (LIV Golf) is all about.”

According to the former world no. 1, the Saudi-backed league officials tried numerous times to come to terms with the PGA Tour. Nonetheless, they are still adamant about their decision and don’t want to work together with the new Series.

“We’ve extended an inclusion into the equity side of things where everybody would be the benefactors,” Norman further told Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post. “Not just the players,” he added, “every institution would be a benefactor.”

PGA Tour does not intend to back away from its stance against Greg Norman LIV Golf

Since its inception, the PGA Tour has been against the LIV Golf series through and through. The Tour officials even banned its players from joining the Saudi-backed league. However, when players, including Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, and Brooks Koepka, started signing with their rivals, the officials suspended them. 

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The American Tour even allied with the European Tour (DP World Tour) to fight against the LIV Series. However, the LIV players got provoked by these actions and filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour to lift the ban and let them play the Tour-sanctioned events again. 

While the golf world thought it would be the end, the PGA Tour has recently filed a lawsuit against PIF, the Saudi-based wealth fund sponsoring LIV Golf Series. The Tour also sued Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of PIF. 

Notably, even the PGA Tour loyalist, Rory McIlroy, told SI’s Bob Harig that he wants the Tour and LIV Golf to talk to each other. “The game of golf is ripping itself apart,” he said then. “And that’s no good for anyone.” 

As McIlroy said, the golf world has been torn apart. While some support Tour’s decision not to let the new league progress, some think it is foolish to not give LIV Golf a chance. Whose side are you on? Let us know in the comments below.

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