NEW YORK: Tiger Woods became down an be offering of about $700-800 million to participate within the Saudi-funded LIV Golfing sequence, the revolt circuit’s leader Greg Norman mentioned. Fifteen-time primary champion Woods has at all times made transparent his opposition to the sequence which is threatening to rip golfing aside and precipitated accusations of Saudi “sportswashing”. Talking in an interview on Fox Information with Tucker Carlson, LIV leader government Norman was once requested if it was once true that the American golfing legend was once presented “700, 800, a thousand million greenbacks” to sign up for the breakaway circuit.

“That quantity was once available in the market prior to I changed into CEO in order that quantity’s been available in the market, sure,” Norman, a former global primary who’s the general public face of LIV Golfing, mentioned within the interview at Trump Nationwide in Bedminster, New Jersey, the place the 3rd LIV Golfing Invitational was once held final weekend. “And glance, Tiger is a needle-mover, proper? So after all you will have a look at the most efficient of the most efficient. “That they had in the beginning approached Tiger prior to I changed into CEO, so sure, that quantity is someplace in that community.”

The 46-year-old Woods has constantly declared his loyalty to the PGA Excursion and mentioned he has no goal of following the likes of alternative primary winners, comparable to Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia and Dustin Johnson in leaping send to the upstart LIV. “I disagree with it,” Woods mentioned forward of the British Open in St Andrews final month when requested about his fellow pros who’ve been tempted to sign up for the massively profitable however deeply arguable circuit. “I feel that what they’ve performed is that they’ve became their again on what has allowed them to get to this place,” Woods mentioned.

“And who is aware of what’s going to occur within the close to long run with world-ranking issues, the standards for getting into primary championships? “A few of these avid gamers would possibly not ever get an opportunity to play in primary championships. That could be a chance. We don’t know that evidently but.” The LIV sequence, spearheaded by way of Norman and bankrolled by way of Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, provides file prize cash of $25 million in step with 54-hole match with shotgun begins and no lower. – AFP