Greg Norman to visit Capitol Hill to discuss new series

Greg Norman is heading to Washington, D.C. to speak L-I-V.

LIV Golf’s CEO and commissioner is about to go to with members of Congress this week on Capitol Hill to debate the upstart circuit that options 54-hole tournaments, no cuts, shotgun begins and large paydays. The information was first reported by Politico.

“LIV Golf is coming to the Hill this week to satisfy with lawmakers from each events,” LIV Golf confirmed to Golfweek. “Given the PGA Tour’s makes an attempt to stifle our progress in reimagining the sport, we expect it’s crucial to coach members on LIV’s enterprise mannequin and counter the Tour’s anti-competitive efforts.”

Backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, LIV Golf has been criticized as a approach for the Kingdom to “sportswash” its human rights document. Saudi Arabia has been accused of wide-ranging human rights abuses, together with politically motivated killings, torture, pressured disappearances and inhumane therapy of prisoners. And members of the royal household and Saudi authorities had been accused of involvement within the homicide of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and Washington Submit columnist.

The continuing energy battle between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour for skilled golf supremacy has seen each organizations foyer in opposition to the opposite on Capitol Hill, and it’s a struggle that received’t finish anytime quickly.

Eleven golfers sued the PGA Tour for antitrust violations in August, however solely seven stay after 4 gamers eliminated their names. When a decide in California denied the momentary restraining order that might have allowed three LIV gamers to compete within the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs, it additionally was revealed the antitrust case would start in August of 2023 on the earliest. The USA Division of Justice is investigating the PGA Tour, as effectively.

Cameron Smith received LIV Golf’s Chicago occasion Sunday at Wealthy Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois, by three pictures over Peter Uihlein and Dustin Johnson. The sequence is on a two-week break earlier than internet hosting consecutive occasions in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 7-9, adopted by Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Oct. 14-16.