Greg Norman, the polarizing commissioner of LIV Golf, told Bob Harig of Sports Illustrated that his contract will expire at the end of August 2025.
This revelation came two weeks after Josh Carpenter of Sports Business Journal reported that Norman would shift into a new role within LIV Golf. Carpenter also noted that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF)—LIV Golf’s beneficiary—has been searching for a new chief executive for months.
But that news has not stopped Norman.
“My contract is through August of 2025,” Norman said to Harig.
“My commitment to LIV has been unquestioned and my commitment into the future is also unquestioned. Time will tell. Will there be a change in my role? My position and my role is to deliver 2025 and get our schedule done and all the things we need to do.”
The two-time major champion has been bullish about LIV Golf’s future since its launch in 2022. Norman joined the start-up league in the summer of 2021, when he began implementing his idea of a ‘Global World Tour.’ Norman originally envisioned this concept in the mid-1990s, according to Alan Shipnuck’s book, LIV and Let Die.
Since then, men’s professional golf has been fractured at the top, splintered between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour. Numerous stars, including Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith, and Jon Rahm, left the tour to join LIV, as each received lucrative contracts to join the start-up league. Lawsuits between the two sides followed, but the shocking framework agreement from June 2023, which set the PIF and the PGA Tour on a path toward striking a deal, ended those cases.
Representatives from the PIF and the tour have met over the past 16 months, but a concrete agreement between the two sides does not yet exist. Whether one transpires soon remains to be seen.
Nonetheless, Norman remains as keen as ever about LIV and its future.
“We knew what we had and what we are doing is right,” Norman added to Harig.
“Time and patience is our greatest ally. Thirty-six tournaments [in three years] is nothing. The PGA Tour has been around for 56 [years]. And we’ve done it in three years. That’s why I’m an optimist looking into the future and where we will be in 10 years.”
Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be sure to check out @_PlayingThrough for more golf coverage. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_milko as well.
