PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has revealed the sanction’s in a sternly-worded memo to players before LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman issued a scathing response.
In the annals of golfing weirdness, here’s a double whammy for the ages: the PGA Championship will be played this week not where it was originally scheduled to be played and without its 51-year-old defending champion in the field.
The R&A has issued a statement after receiving several inquiries about Greg Norman’s revelation he wanted to play the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews.
If Norman is willing, inexplicably, to put himself through reliving such a black chapter with the cameras rolling, then we owe it to him to stick it out until the end.
After insulting the Saudi Government and openly admitting he was using the now named LIV Golf Invitational Series as leverage against the PGA Tour’s “obnoxious greed”, you might have thought Phil Mickelson would be persona non grata to the breakaway league.
Greg Norman and LIV Golf have announced an eight-tournament, $US250 million ($A343 million) series—called the LIV Golf Invitational—which will kick off at the Centurion Club outside of London the week before the U.S. Open