LIV Golf exec on failures to rein in Greg Norman: "He ALWAYS takes the bait!"
LIV Golf League bosses are reportedly trying to make a concerted effort to rein in Greg Norman in 2023, per comments from an executive in a report.
LIV Golf execs are reportedly trying to make a concerted effort to rein in Greg Norman in 2023, according to a report.
Norman said many, many things in 2022. Some of his comments were downright hilarious. Others were distasteful. Even deplorable.
He began the year by sending an ominous email to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan when bans were threatened for prospective LIV players.
Surely you jest, wrote Greg, before adding: "This is just the beginning". He was right. It was the start of a remarkable year.
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In truth Norman's comments have given LIV Golf a massive PR boost, although at times they were an unwelcome distraction.
None more so than when he uttered, in this writer's opinion, one of the most reprehensible sentences ever heard in world sport.
"We've all made mistakes," Norman said when he was pressed on the kidnapping and murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Norman appeared to take more of a back seat after that. There were talks he was going to be "moved upstairs" and quietly replaced.
Former TaylorMade supremo Mark King was touted as a replacement but all has gone quiet on that front.
Instead, Norman is said to yield more power than ever with LIV after Majed Al-Sorour vacated the position of managing director.
That being said, insiders at LIV are reportedly still concerned at Norman's apparent inability to not fight fire with fire.
Just last week in a Golf interview, Norman warned Rory McIlroy to watch what he says about LIV in the future.
Norman said McIlroy "knew nothing about LIV". The Great White Shark previously claimed McIlroy was "brainwashed" by the PGA Tour.
It was that comment that incensed McIlroy and he vowed to himself to be as "much of a pain in the a*** as possible".
Greg Norman labels Rory McIlroy a "hypocrite" in his latest verbal attack when discussing LIV Golf.
He told Piers Morgan Uncensored: "Rory decided to leave the European tour to go play where all the money is, where I went to play, to the PGA Tour."
Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/eJbief0sUQ— GolfMagic (@GolfMagic) September 28, 2022
Norman told Golf:
Gulp. Make of that what you will.
FirePit reporter Alan Shipnuck approached the topic of Norman in Mexico over the weekend at their first event of 2023.
According to an executive, they said of Norman:
Well, if LIV chiefs have told Norman to turn down the temperature, the message hasn't sunk in yet judging by his comments about McIlroy.
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