We’ve been watching (with interest) the development of the breakaway LIV Tour headed by Australia’s very own Great White Shark. It has many layers – sports washing, player bans and even the possibility that it could dismantle the PGA Tour as we know it.
Here is an interesting take as reported by Asian Golf Magazine and posted on their Face Book Page;

LIV Golf – Norman Whacks The PGA Tour!

Greg Norman, the man leading the global thrust of LIV Golf – the Saudi Arabian-backed global golf initiative, opened up on the PGA Tour with a startling revelation.
In reference to wild accusations of LIV Golf players taking “blood money” and “dirty money”, Norman lashed out: “Look, I’m disappointed people go down that path, quite honestly …. if they want to look at it in prism, then why does the PGA Tour have 23 sponsors doing 40-plus billion dollars’ worth of business with Saudi Arabia? Why is it OK for the sponsors? Will [PGA Tour commissioner] Jay Monahan go to each and every one of those CEOs of the 23 companies that are investing into Saudi Arabia and suspend them and ban them? The hypocrisy in all this, it’s so loud. It’s deafening.”
This reference to a double-standard practice was made known in a Fox News broadcast.
Meanwhile, Mike Whan, the CEO of the United States Golf Association has declared that it could become much more difficult in the future for LIV Golfers to play in the Majors. The issue is that LIV golfers do not receive Official World Rankings points, but Norman said he is working on a solution with the technical committee.
“We’re not going anywhere; we want to do what’s right for the fans, for the players and for our commercial business model,” Norman said. “We are going to forge forward. And there’s been a lot of obstacles, no question about it. There’s been a lot of obstacles the PGA Tour’s thrown in our path, but you know what? We’ve worked around it because golf is a force for good.”
Amidst the on-going controversy, word is out that the 31-year-old Abraham Ancer from Mexico has decided to join LIV Golf.
Ancer made history back bac in 2021 when, at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, when he became the first Mexican to win a WGC event and the fourth Mexican to pick up a PGA Tour title.

As posted on Asian Golf Website 27-6-22