Greg Norman says LIV Golf’s future will “totally depend” on his successor Scott O’Neil drumming up funding, and also spoke about what his “ultimate goal” was for the breakaway league during his spell in charge.
The Australian gave an interesting interview to Dan Rapaport in which he insisted that he always wanted to work alongside the PGA Tour and not against it – but got no response when trying to hold talks with Jay Monahan.
The future of LIV Golf is big news with reports the Saudi PIF is set to withdraw its financial backing at the end of the 2026 season.
O’Neil said LIV Golf was in a “wonderful position” when speaking at LIV Golf Mexico, but also later admitted to TNT Sports that it was “funded through the season and then you work like crazy to create a business and a business plan to keep us going” – a response that was deleted from the broadcaster’s social feeds.
Norman says O’Neil will now have to go out and showcase LIV Golf to potential investors – with a similar deal to the PGA Tour’s one with Strategic Sports Group being ideal.
“Look, that will totally depend on Scott O’Neil,” Norman told Rapaport’s show Dan on Golf. when asked if LIV could survive without Saudi PIF funding.
“I read his comments on we’ve got to go raise money ourselves, LIV has to do that.
“Basically he’s got to get out there on the street now and he’s got to do a roadshow and he’s got to see if he can dilute some of the PIF funding down to somewhere else.
“Getting a US financial institution coming in would be very advantageous, no different to what’s happened with SSG and the PGA Tour. Very, very advantageous for him.”
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