Norman's campaign to keep pro golfers off bread line

Greg Norman is determined that professional golfers will no longer have to slum it in economy class.

You might think that the Great White Shark had enough regrets from his career, given he was in the habit of frittering away one or two majors a year at his peak.

But judging by his extensive recent interview on Sky Sports News, what keeps Norman awake at night is not blowing the six-shot lead at Augusta in '96 or Larry Mize and Bob Tway holing miracle shots in play-offs against him.

No, Norman is still sore at not getting his due financially, at all that 'value' that went unrealised.

"I felt sorry for me in my career, I felt sorry for every top player in the game of golf, who carried the burden of being the best player in the world that we didn't maximise our true value."

The Shark was quick to concede that "we made a lot of money" but is still adamant that he and the rest of his generation of modest millionaires were cruelly short-changed.

He is bitter on behalf of himself and the other big cheeses of his era - the Faldos, the Seves, the Freddie Couples, hell even the Tom Kites and the Ray Floyds could be thrown in there - that they never got to roll around in the kind of dough that CR7 pulls in.

"Did we make our true maximum value like Ronaldo does? Heck, no!" he cried.

Norman sees his generation of golfers as akin to those former professional footballers in the 1970s and 80s unable to live off the fat of their sporting earnings and forced by economic necessity to become pub landlords.

By contrast, what Norman's Super Golf League offers to this era of players is "generational wealth", thanks to the largesse of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund.

This is the sore point. Norman insists the Saudis aren't his bosses even though