Greg Norman broke his silence to criticize the “deafening” “hypocrisy” of the PGA Tour.
Norman, the figurehead of the controversial Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Sequence, spoke with Fox Information’ “One Nation with Brian Kilmeade” because the week of the U.S. Open neared its end.
He fired again on the many PGA-affiliated critics of LIV Golf, together with commentator Bob Costas’ current assertion that Norman and the opposite golfers he has helped lure away (comparable to Phil Mickelson) are taking “blood cash.”
“Look, I’m upset folks go down that path, fairly truthfully,” Norman stated, in keeping with USA TODAY Sports activities. “In the event that they need to have a look at it in prism, then why does the PGA Tour have 23 sponsors doing 40-plus billion dollars price of enterprise with Saudi Arabia? Why is it OK for the sponsors? Will [PGA Tour commissioner] Jay Monahan go to every a kind of CEOs of the 23 firms which are investing into Saudi Arabia and droop them and ban them? The hypocrisy in all this, it’s so loud. It’s deafening.”
LIV golfers are allowed to take part in main tournaments for now, however United States Golf Affiliation CEO Mike Whan stated earlier this week that it may grow to be far more troublesome sooner or later. The difficulty is that LIV golfers don't obtain Official World Rankings factors, however Norman — a previous two-time winner of PGA majors — stated he's engaged on an answer with the technical committee.
“We’re not going wherever; we need to do what’s proper for the followers, for the gamers and for our industrial enterprise mannequin,” Norman stated. “We're going to forge ahead. And there’s been loads of obstacles, no query about it. There’s been loads of obstacles the PGA Tour’s thrown in our path, however what? We’ve labored round it as a result of golf is a pressure for good.”
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