LIV Golf boss Greg Norman has hit back at Rory McIlroy’s scathing criticism of the controversial series as well as slamming what he calls ‘deafening hypocrisy’.
The lucrative Saudi-backed series is at the heart of the ongoing golf civil war with the PGA Tour and DP World Tours fractured after several of the game’s top stars were poached. LIV is funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and that vast backing has helped lure the likes of Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson.
Players who have joined the rebel series were subsequently handed immediate and indefinite bans from the PGA Tour. An antitrust lawsuit, filed by several LIV golfers that the series then joined itself, has also been filed against the PGA Tour with a trial date set for January of 2024.
