A week after branding the official world golf ranking “laughable”, LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman has revealed the Top 20-ranked superstar he’s trying to lure across to the Saudi-backed league.
After an agonisingly long wait for 2024 tournament dates to be locked in, LIV Golf Adelaide officials are now bracing for a complete sell-out after an early rush for tickets has all but exhausted their hospitality allocation.
LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman has weighed into the NSW Government’s decision to reduce Moore Park Golf course from 18 to nine holes, labelling the decision as “disappointing”.
The announcement was made this morning at Grange Golf Club, which returns as host venue while excitement builds for the second installment of the tournament.
The partnership could see betting markets displayed on LIV Golf’s TV broadcasts with the opportunity to place wagers through Simplebet’s partner books, which include DraftKings, Bet365 and Caesars, among others.
Those doing the questioning made sure the proceedings were entertaining, and occasionally informative, with a 267-page document dump at the hearing’s onset offering a number of surprising admissions.
In his opening remarks during the overnight US Congressional hearing on the planned partnership between the tour and PIF, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) said there had been a side-agreement among members of the PGA Tour and PIF negotiations that Norman would be pushed out in involvement with the new alliance.
Attorney Larry Klayman, who has been seeking a class-action antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, wrote that the release of the documents appeared to be a clerical error by the court.