Tiger Woods grew to turn into down a proposal that Greg Norman says used to be in the placement of $700m to $800m to choose on segment in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf sequence.
For the length of an look on Fox News with Tucker Carlson that aired Monday evening, Norman confirmed what he told the Washington Post in a memoir two months previously. Norman told the Post in June the offer used to be “concepts-blowingly immense; we’re speaking about excessive 9 digits.”
Woods has been in opposition to LIV Golf since tiring closing year, and he delivered his strongest feedback on the British Start when he acknowledged players who took the money funded by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund had “grew to turn into their succor” on the PGA Tour that made them current.
When a proposal used to be made to Woods used to be no longer clear.
“That number used to be in the market forward of I grew to turn into CEO. So that number has been in the market, sure,” Norman acknowledged in the Fox News interview, which took build aside Sunday at Trump National in Bedminster, Contemporary Jersey, where the third LIV Golf Invitational used to be held.
“And, glance, Tiger is a needle-mover and naturally it is vitally basic to glance on the larger of the correct,” Norman acknowledged. “So they had in the origin approached Tiger forward of I grew to turn into CEO. So, sure, that number used to be someplace in that neighborhood.”
Assorted reviews out of the UK appreciate acknowledged Phil Mickelson purchased a $200m signing bonus, whereas Dustin Johnson purchased $150m. The 48-man fields, which play 54 holes with out a cut, offer $25m in prize money at each occasion. Norman offered a 14-tournament agenda for next year.
LIV Golf currently has most efficient one participant – Johnson at No 18 – from the tip 20 on the earth.
The source of the funding has resulted in sharp criticism of the sequence and the players who appreciate enlisted because it is viewed as an strive to distract consideration from its human rights file and hyperlinks to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Asked why his rival tour has brought on such an uproar amongst American golf followers, Norman spoke back it looks that, “I don’t know.”
“I no doubt don’t care,” Norman acknowledged. “I correct fancy the game so unprecedented and I are searching to grow the game of golf and we at LIV peep that change no longer correct for the males but for the females.”
The LIV Golf Invitational is off for a month throughout the FedEx Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour, returning over Labor Day weekend about an hour west of Boston, after which two weeks later performs in the Chicago suburbs.