LIV Golf’s fifth occasion takes place this weekend in Thailand, and with 2023’s full tour on the horizon, LIV CEO Greg Norman spoke on one other frontier he’s down the highway.
Particularly, girls’s golf and the LPGA.
In interviews drumming up publicity for this weekend’s occasion, Norman stated branching out into the ladies’s recreation is on his agenda.
Norman stated:
“That’s all the time been within the forefront of my thoughts [working with the women’s game], to be trustworthy with you, as a result of I’ve been a staunch proponent of them… I’ve performed with a whole lot of LPGA gamers through the years and I believe their worth has risen not too long ago, there’s no query about it. If there’s a possibility for us to have an open dialog and dialogue with girls, I’m very a lot on the forefront of that.”
Whereas no talks have occurred, earlier this 12 months, LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan stated she would hear Norman out.
LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan stated she’d take the decision from LIV Golf https://t.co/pIHz5bJvWh
— Golfweek (@golfweek) July 22, 2022
Marcoux instructed Golfweek:
“I’d interact in a dialog if it could obtain our goal of selling girls’s golf, however there must be enter from gamers and sponsors. There’s a whole lot of components to think about earlier than we do enterprise with.”
Whereas it sounds like every such discussions may take years to type on the course, it’s price noting that it’s one thing that’s on Norman’s long-term agenda.
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