While speaking about the future of the game, he spoke about his stance that golf players shouldn't be allowed at theRyder Cup. There is a time and a place for this.
Greg Norman, CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf, said the upstart circuit has no desire to talk with the PGA Tour about a truce.
LIV Golf, financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, has been competing with the PGA Tour for the best golf players in the world. Norman said he tried to talk to the PGA Tour commissioner about figuring out how the leagues can coexist, but he's no longer interested in doing so.
"Because our product is working, we don't want to sit down with them," Norman told The Australian.
After several past major championship winners were lured to the new circuit with signing bonuses reportedly worth as much as $100 million, Monahan was unwilling to sit down with the club.
Norman said that they are where they are today. For the past year, I think we tried very hard. We decided to leave when we knew we wouldn't hear from them.
More than two dozen of the tour's members have defected to LIV Golf. Players who competed in golf tournaments without conflicting event releases have been suspended. Among the latest wave of players to leave was Smith, the reigning Open Championship winner.
On August 27th, LIV Golf joined a group of its players in a federal antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, accusing it of unfairly suspending players and quashing competition.
According to Norman, the plans from the beginning were to be an "additive" to the existing golf community.
It was always an added benefit to all tours. We are not trying to destroy tours. ThePGA Tour is trying to destroy us.
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