Reporter and ex-golf star, Roger Maltbie will leave NBC after thirty years. Maltbie is saddened by this turn of events, given that he has given so much to NBC. “Does it hurt when you hear the words? Sure. ‘You’re not in our plans.’ Thirty-one years I spent with NBC.
‘You’re no longer in our plans and you’re not part of our future. We need to go young,’ which is a nice way of saying you’re old, and I understand all that. But you know, there’s hurt feelings and there’s also a lot of gratitude.
They were great to me for 31 years. I don’t have a complaint.” – he said, as quoted by golfmonthly.com
Roger Maltbie and Greg Norman
Many believe that he could now become part of LIV Golf. Matlbie does not reject such an option, but he believes that there is no good chance for it to happen.
“I guess at this age, at 71, you never say never, but that would shock me beyond belief,” he added. “Greg Norman and I had sort of a spat you might call it years back, and I doubt that I would get a call from LIV, let’s put it that way.
This LIV thing, it’s kind of crazy. There’s so much hypocrisy involved in it. I don’t begrudge any player that accepted that money or decided to do that. That’s still a decision that is 1,000 per cent their right.
I don’t like the idea that they think they could do that and play the PGA Tour. I don’t follow that, but I’m not upset with it.” Many resent golfers who have become part of LIV Golf, given that the tour is supported by Saudi Arabia.
“There are people that have this moral outrage about accepting money from the Saudi Investment Fund and it’s like, really? All the business that our government does with Saudi Arabia, and the largest corporations in America, so many of them do some business with the Saudis.
Why all of a sudden are golfers the moral compass of the world? I don’t understand that. So I have no problem with those guys taking that money.”
