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Greg Norman, the CEO of the LIV Golf Series, said that Tiger Woods turned down an offer of up to 800 million dollars to join the series.
At last month's Open, Woods disagreed with the fact that a number of top players had joined the break away tour.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Norman said that the 15-time major champion was offered between $575m and $650m to join LIV.
Before Norman became CEO, that number was out there.
I think Tiger is a needle-mover. Look at the best of the best. There is a number in that neighborhood.
Before I became CEO, they had first approached Tiger.
Woods said he doesn't see how that move is positive in the long term for many of the players on the tour.
He defended the R&A's decision to withdraw Norman's invitation to the celebrations.
Woods thinks that Greg has done things that are not in the best interest of the game.
The PGA Tour just wants to shut us down, according to Norman.
The Australian said in the interview that they will use whatever leverage they can to shut us down.
They won't shut us down because the product speaks for itself.
The criticism of the tour's connection to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund was discussed by him.
Norman said that it blew his mind. Billions of dollars are spent in Saudi Arabia by sponsors.
Over 40 billion dollars' worth of business is done by the PGA Tour in Saudi Arabia every year.
The CEO of those organizations should be called by the PGA Tour and told that they can't do business with them because they are doing business with Saudi Arabia. They are picking on the pros.
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