Greg Norman’s latest venture could breathe new life into the game but how good an idea that is depends on how tainted you believe the Saudi money backing it is
It was the talk of Australian golf media in Tokyo for the Olympics. Greg Norman was, they said, coming for the Australian Open. He wanted to make it part of a Saudi-backed golf “super league”, to hurl untold millions at the tournament. Norman wanted to own it.
Now, Norman has not declared publicly that he wants to own the Australian Open – and he did not respond when contacted by Guardian Australia this week – yet ears pricked recently when news broke that he would be chief executive officer of LIV Golf Investments, a startup backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund worth half-a-trillion US dollars. He would also be commissioner of a proposed 10-tournament “super league” under the auspices of the Asian Tour.
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