{"id":438124,"date":"2026-04-25T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=438124"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:15:23","slug":"greg-norman-believes-liv-golf-could-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/greg-norman-believes-liv-golf-could-be-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Norman Believes LIV Golf Could Be Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, the PIF withdrew its backing for LIV Golf.<\/a>\u00a0 A result of this decision is that now everyone is speculating on what will happen with the league without its primary source of income.\u00a0 It is funded through the season, but beyond that, the league’s future is up in the air.\u00a0 Greg Norman, however, is brainstorming some ideas on how to keep his old league alive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Greg Norman On LIV<\/span><\/h2>\n

LIV Golf is the brainchild of Greg Norman.\u00a0 He has been trying to get a world tour league off the ground for decades before he found a backer in the Saudi PIF.\u00a0 Norman was even the CEO until last year when Scott O\u2019Neil took over his old position.\u00a0 Norman fully acknowledges that LIV\u2019s next step is fully in the hands of O\u2019Neil, but he still has some ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Going on the DanOnGolf show for an interview and revealed a lot about his vision.\u00a0 Norman wanted the league to work with the PGA Tour and not against it.\u00a0 He wanted to do this by propping up some of the lesser events.\u00a0 In fact, this was the plan for the US LIV events.\u00a0 Instead of them being unique to LIV Golf, they were to be a joint effort with the PGA.\u00a0 That plan never came into fruition as the PGA has been hostile towards LIV due to its ties to the Saudi government and all the controversy that comes with that.\u00a0 Norman does believe that cooperation with the PGA can help LIV survive, but he isn\u2019t holding out hope for that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What Norman Thinks Should Be Done<\/span><\/h2>\n

Greg Norman did share what he thinks needs to happen for the league’s survival.\u00a0 He told Rapaport<\/a> the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

“I read his comments (Scott O\u2019Neil) on we’ve got to go raise money ourselves, LIV has to do that.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Norman proceeded to praise Brian Rolapp for how he\u2019s been handling the PGA.<\/a>\u00a0 He likes how Rolapp has been handling things in terms of player agency and how he\u2019s been looking to change the Tour.\u00a0 Norman looked at the former and said, \u201cThat\u2019s what we did for Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Keeping LIV Alive<\/span><\/h2>\n

Greg Norman has had a lot invested in LIV Golf and wants to see it grow the way he envisioned it.\u00a0 However, the league still has a lot of hurdles ahead of it.\u00a0 The most controversial connection it had may be fading, but the memory remains and continues to have a deep impact on the league\u2019s reputation.\u00a0 Norman wants to see a US financial institution jump in, but as he said, that\u2019s already happened with the PGA.\u00a0 The PGA also dominates the American golf market, so investors will need a lot of persuasion before jumping into LIV Golf.\u00a0 Norman had a vision for his league, but during his time in it, he never saw it come to fruition.\u00a0 Now he may see it fizzle out as the funding dries up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 MEGHAN McCARTHY\/Palm Beach Daily News \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, the PIF withdrew its backing for LIV Golf.\u00a0 A result of this decision is that now everyone is speculating on what will happen with the league without its primary source of income.\u00a0 It is funded through the season, but beyond that, the league’s future is up in the air.\u00a0 Greg Norman, however, is brainstorming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5429,"featured_media":438126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,200],"tags":[8122,129,198],"class_list":["post-438124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-liv-golf","tag-brian-rolapp","tag-greg-norman","tag-scott-oneil"],"modified_by":"Taylor Craig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438128,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438124\/revisions\/438128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}