Greg Norman has thanked Republican House members after meeting them to discuss the ongoing battle with the PGA Tour, though the LIV Golf chief was given a frosty reception by some.
The LIV Golf CEO met with the Republican Study Committee to share his concerns about what he feels are anti-competitive tactics used by the PGA Tour towards the Saudi-backed series, telling reporters afterwards he welcomed the opportunity to give “both sides of the story for them to understand what LIV is all about”.
The PGA Tour has suspended all LIV players from its events indefinitely, meaning the likes of Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith can no longer play there. The new PGA Tour season started last week with the Fortinet Championship, while five of the eight LIV Golf Invitationals have been played this year, ahead of the first full league season in 2023.
In a letter to PGA Tour members in August, commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the court action taken by a group of LIV Golf players seeking to set aside their suspensions. In it, Monahan said the players knew they would be ineligible to play PGA Tour events if they decided to join LIV, accusing them of “trying to use lawyers to force their way into competition alongside our members in good standing”. He added that allowing them to rejoin the PGA Tour would be “to the detriment of our organization, our players, our partners and our fans”. He told members: “This is your Tour, built on the foundation that we work together for the good and growth of the organization….and then you reap the rewards.”
Norman took to Twitter to thank the politicians for their time and stress his belief that competition is vital, but it seems not all present shared the LIV chief’s vision.
(Pt.1) To the 100 bipartisan lawmakers I met within the past 24 hours on The Hill: thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to visit and tell LIV Golf’s story.Freedom of speech & free enterprise form the bedrock of what this country was founded on. Competition is a vital partSeptember 22, 2022
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