LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman and PGA Tour loyalist Rory McIlroy exchange more barbs than well-wishes these days. But when it’s all said and done, whose career would you rather have?
The worst-kept secret in golf is official: world No.2 Cameron Smith is quitting the PGA Tour for LIV Golf, and he’s being joined by fellow Aussie Marc Leishman.
It’s believed Woods’ mission, as a self-appointed shadow commissioner, is to reshape the PGA Tour in a way that enough new money will flow to ensure top players will want to stay, while giving himself a slice of the pie and more of a say in how the Tour operates.
Australia’s best golfer will continue to be awarded the Greg Norman Medal despite the possibility of the Australian legend’s disruptive LIV Golf Series potentially going head-to-head with Australia’s biggest events in the future.
Keeping an unusually low media profile during the opening events of his divisive LIV Golf Invitational Series, Greg Norman is finally ready to do the talking. In a wide-ranging interview with Australian Golf Digest, The Shark explains how golf found itself in conflict, what it all means for countries like Australia, and why his second attempt at globalising the pro circuit will end differently to the first.
To say they wasted no time would be an understatement: Ryder Cup Europe executives removed Henrik Stenson as their captain for next year’s event even before he was announced as a new LIV Golf recruit.
A former PGA Tour player and three-time winner on the PGA Tour Champions, McCord used his wry humour and irreverence to carve out a successful broadcasting career with CBS Sports over four decades starting in 1986.
Australian Golf Digest
