LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan willing to talk LIV Golf with Greg Norman

This wasn’t a no.

Mollie Marcoux Samaan, the LPGA commissioner, stated she would take heed to Greg Norman about working with LIV Golf if he referred to as.

“It’s my accountability to judge each alternative,” Marcoux Samaan advised the London Instances. “I might have interaction in a dialog if it might obtain our purpose of selling ladies’s golf, however there must be enter from gamers and sponsors. There’s numerous components to think about earlier than we do enterprise with LIV Golf.”

Final week, Norman advised the Palm Seashore Publish that “100%” LIV Golf needs to be concerned within the ladies’s sport. LIV Golf, after all, has created upheaval by taking high gamers away from the PGA Tour on the lads’s facet.

It’s turn out to be a preferred matter of dialog on the LPGA tour, Marisa Fassi advised Golfweek. Cristie Kerr stated all the tour may depart if supplied large cash.

Leona Maguire is presented a trophy by LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan after winning the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony Golf & Country Club on Feb. 5, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida.
Leona Maguire is offered a trophy by LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan after profitable the LPGA Drive On Championship.
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LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman signs hats from the deck of a pavilion on the 18th green during the final round of the LIV Golf Invitational - Portland at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club on July 2, 2022 in North Plains, Oregon.
LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman indicators hats from the deck of a pavilion on the 18th inexperienced throughout the remaining spherical of the LIV Golf Invitational.
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“All people has totally different opinions by way of what the fellows are doing however then when it’s switched to us, it might be very exhausting to say no to that,” Fassi stated.

With that in thoughts, it might make sense for the LPGA to work with LIV Golf somewhat than lose all, or most, of its members.

“I believe all of us care about this tour quite a bit,” Fassi stated. “I don’t assume any of us really need to depart.”

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