Greg Norman hopeful on LIV Golfs bid for world ranking status, but concerned by 'cabal' in golf

Greg Norman is confident in LIV Golf’s bid for World Golf Ranking recognition, and has urged the Masters and the other majors to remain neutral. LIV Golf has fractured golf, with a swathe of players jumping ship from the PGA Tour on the back of massive contract offers. Ad/> The issue LIV players have at present is they cannot accrue ranking points as it does not have official status.

GolfMickelson moves above Tiger in Forbes' 2022 golf earners list2 HOURS AGO It has submitted a request, although there are objections from the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour. A meeting of the committee which makes the decision is believed to have taken place, but there has been no word as to an outcome. LIV chief Norman has lobbied the chairman of the committee, Peter Dawson, and expects a fair hearing in his organisation’s bid for relevance.

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I flew to Scotland to sit down and have dinner with him. He has our application, so he’ll go through the right process to get it there. «We brought up recusing Mohahan and (Keith) Pelley (the DP World Tour commissioner) and (Martin) Slumbers (who heads the R&A) and everybody who’s had a negative comment about LIV, and they cannot vote.