Greg Norman is back on the big stage in an interesting style. Namely, Norman became the CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf a few months ago, a tournament supported by Saudi Arabia. Colin Montgomerie expected Norman’s move. He believes that the only realistic option is to cooperate with the.
“This was on the cards 20 years ago with Greg Norman. He didn’t have the backing so it went away. Now he’s come back with serious backing – the deepest pockets we’ve ever known. I mean, we’re not talking hundreds of millions, we’re talking tens of billions.
There’s nothing that we can do about that right now. We have to accept that and work with that and we haven’t worked with it yet. We’ve got to work with it now because they’re not going away, or else there’s a them and us situation”.
– he said, for golfmonthly.com
PGA Tour and DP World Tour
The PGA Tour and the DP World Tour have decided to cooperate in difficult times for them. The Saudis are ready to invest a lot of money in this competition and therefore Montgomerie sees no other option but to cooperate with LIV Golf.
“Legal costs are up in the seven figures for the European Tour. That money is coming out of the purses for the European Tour. So those players are taking money from their own peers that they were sharing locker rooms with before.
It’s a very, very difficult situation – them and us – and we have to somehow bring those two groups together and I can’t see it happening overnight because the Saudi money is such that it’s changed our game and is changing our game, and there’s more to come.
It’s a very difficult situation we find ourselves in. We have to work together and we’re not working together yet”.
