The LIV continues to sow controversy in the golf world. After pulling several players from the PGA in recent weeks, including world number 2 Cameron Smith, the league has announced a move that is not in keeping with the standards of the sport.
LIV CEO Greg Norman has announced via LIV social media that players in his competition will be able to wear shorts, something rarely seen in the sport. In the different official competitions that have taken place during the history of the sport, it has always been necessary to play with long pants, the regulation ones in golf.
Except in exceptional situations.
Greg Norman, statements
For years, the PGA had this discussion about whether shorts could be included in the dress code, since in certain tournaments played in some areas, wearing long pants could be a problem for golfers.
Only in certain tournaments where extremely high temperatures exist, the PGA has allowed the use of this type of clothing. In fact, until recently, golfers were allowed to have their ankles visible. The circuit is quite critical of the dress code.
From now on, LIV players will not have such discomfort thanks to this rule. This measure is taken while the Invitational Golf is being held in Boston, where the new LIV signings are already present. Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann.
The LIV continues to act to gain fame and new competitors while maintaining the war with the PGA with complaints and various discussions that alter the world of golf, causing tension among golfers. Gregory John Norman, aka Greg (Mount Isa, February 10, 1955), is an Australian golfer and entrepreneur nicknamed The White Shark or simply The Shark [1].
He has proved to be one of the most loved golfers by the public, both for his particular aggressive playing style and for his charismatic attitudes and the same look inspired by a veiled transgressive non-conformism. [2] He is considered to be one of the most accomplished golfers of the 1980s and 1990s, even though he has not achieved all the goals that seemed within his reach.
Animated by a passion for golf since he was a teenager, he began to achieve significant results in the international field already in the second half of the seventies. Best player in the world from 1986 to 1997, he won the World Matchplay tournament three times (1980, 1983, 1986), the Australian Masters (1980, 1983, 1984) and twice the British Masters (1981 and 1982).
In 1993 he won the British Open with a record of 267 strokes over the four days of competition. In 1994 he won the American professional championship in which he also set a record of 264 shots, a limit still undefeated. Three times he was the best of the season in terms of PGA Tour awards.
However, Norman has not been able to combine his technical and physical skills with a sufficient continuity of action and concentration in Major tournaments, so much so that he knows several second places during his career in which he won 91 titles (until October 2001) , of which only two were from the Grand Slam: the 1986 and 1993 Open Championships.
[3] He has long occupied the first position in the world ranking of the best golfers. Despite some downturns due to the physical and mental strain of his long career, Norman has practically always remained among the top five golfers in the world. In 2001 he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
