Tiger Woods turned down a deal worth around $700-$800 million to join the Saudi-upheld LIV Golf series, as indicated by the visit's CEO Greg Norman.
During a meeting on Fox News that circulated on Monday,
previous world No. 1 Norman was asked by Tucker Carlson on the off chance that
Woods was offered $700-$800 million to join the LIV Golf series.
"That number was out there before I became CEO,"
Norman answered. "In this way, that number's been out there, yes. See,
Tiger's a needle mover, correct?
"In this way, obviously, you will check out at the most
elite. They had initially moved toward Tiger before I became CEO, along these
lines, indeed, that number is someplace around there."
Already, Norman had told the Washington Post in June that
Woods was offered tremendous cash to partake however turned it down. Norman
said the Woods proposition was "mind-blowingly colossal; we're discussing
high nine digits."
The dubious visit has drawn in a major name from the hitting
the fairway world to leave the laid-out PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to take
part for huge amounts of cash.
Significant victors Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson
DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen, Graeme McDowell,
Charl Schwartzel, and Martin Kaymer have all joined the breakaway endeavor,
which has offered players immense cash to join.
The LIV Golf series is upheld by Saudi Arabia's Public
Investment Fund (PIF) - - a sovereign abundance reserve led by Mohammed
receptacle Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia - - and has promised to
grant $250 million in all-out prize cash.
In any case, it has prompted analysis from numerous players,
including Rory McIlroy and Woods, that players have deserted golf's customary setup
and acknowledged cash from a country with a terrible common liberties record.
Prior to July's Open at St. Andrews, Scotland, Woods said he
contradicted the players who had left.
"I believe that what they've done is they've betrayed
what has permitted them to get to this position," the 15-time significant
champ said.
"A portion of these players may not at any point have
an opportunity to play in significant titles. That is plausible. We don't have
a clue about that without a doubt yet. It depends on all the significant title
bodies to make that assurance. In any case, that is plausible, that a few
players will never under any circumstance have an opportunity to play in a
significant title, never have an opportunity to encounter this here, stroll
down the fairways at Augusta National.
"Yet, how these players are doing ensured cash, what is
the motivating force from training's point of view? You're simply getting
compensated a huge load of cash front and center and playing a couple of
occasions and playing 54 openings. They're playing booming music and have this
large number of environments that are unique."
Woods added: "I simply don't have the foggiest idea how
that move is positive in the long haul for a ton of these players, particularly
in the event that the LIV association doesn't get world-positioning focuses and
the significant titles change their models for entering the occasions.
Woods even went as far as to scrutinize Norman himself for
his job in the splinter visit. "Greg has done a few things that I don't
believe is to the greatest advantage of our game, and we're returning to likely
the most notable and customary spot in our game."
On Sunday, Henrik Stenson won the third occasion of LIV
Golf's presentation season at Bedminster, New Jersey.
Almost fourteen days after he was deprived of his Ryder Cup
captaincy for joining the series, the 46-year-old Swede shot 11-under standard
at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster to win $4 million.
He acknowledged the prize close by previous US President
Donald Trump, who was available all through the three-day rivalry and who
claims the course.
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