PGA Tour LIV Golf new details revealed: Greg Norman head served on platter

Transfer over, Greg Norman; there’s a brand new sheriff on the town.

New particulars concerning the deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund (PIF) have emerged.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan will oversee each the PGA Tour and LIV Golf as soon as this settlement is finalized, in response to a Sports activities Illustrated report.

This growth implies that Monahan can disband LIV if he needs to and likewise approve the reinstatement of former PGA Tour professionals if he so needs. It’s arduous to think about Monahan having a spot for Norman contemplating the general public distaste the latter has expressed with the PGA Tour through the years.

The report additionally notes that the one promise made between PGA Tour and PIF officers is a “proper to refusal,” that means many unknowns nonetheless exist.

This detailed report comes nearly two days after Norman hopped on a 30-minute name with LIV Golf staffers to debate its future.

“LIV is and can proceed to be a standalone enterprise,” Norman stated on the decision. “Our enterprise mannequin is not going to change. We modified historical past, and we’re not going anyplace.”

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Regardless of his feedback on the contrary, it nonetheless appears to be like like Norman’s days are numbered.

Nowhere did Norman’s, or LIV Golf’s, title seem on the press launch asserting the alignment of the PGA and PIF. Nor was Norman conscious of the conversations between Monahan, PGA Tour board members Ed Herlily and Jimmy Dunne, and PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan that led to this bombshell announcement.

Curiously, quite a few LIV gamers—and Norman to an extent—declared victory after information of the merger hit the airwaves.

Phil Mickelson, one of many faces of LIV golf, tweeted, “superior day right this moment,” on Jun. 6, the day the information broke.

Mickelson has remained quiet on social media since then, a stark distinction from the previous weeks during which he clapped again at criticisms and even took a shot at Rory McIlroy.

However LIV Golf—if it stays intact or disbands—created a workforce method for the primary time in males’s skilled golf outdoors the President’s Cup and Ryder Cup.

On the very least, the legacy of workforce play will stick with it by means of Tiger Woods and McIlroy’s TGL Golf League. This digital golf league will happen Monday nights in primetime with six groups of three gamers.

So regardless of Monahan appearing hypocritically, it appears to be like like he can have the higher hand on Norman going ahead.