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Then LIV Golf CEO Norman (left) with Hong Kong Golf Club captain Andy Kwok in 2023. Photo: LIV Golf<\/p>\nAustralian golf legend Greg Norman said he was proud of what he accomplished as the CEO of LIV Golf and that PGA Tour players had benefited from the Saudi-backed league.<\/p>\n
Norman, who stepped down from LIV Golf last month, called his time with the league \u201cmission accomplished\u201d in an interview with Australian Golf Digest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look back on the past 12 months, there\u2019s been a realisation that all those investment dollars have done great things for the institutions as well as the players, in all parts of the world,\u201d he said. \u201cEven with the PGA Tour [boosting its prize money with elevated events], I was quietly happy when I saw that, because the players benefited from it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre they going to recognise LIV for doing that? No, but I do know that was a significant uptick for them. For them to be able to play for more money, even play in less competitive fields \u2013 they reduced the size of the fields \u2013 I just said, \u2018Well, there you go\u2019. The adoption, to some degree, of what we implemented has been accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Norman, 70, acknowledged the time commitment along with the intense criticism he endured as one of the primary faces of the breakaway league did take a toll. But he also said that he would do it all again \u201cin a heartbeat\u201d.<\/p>\n
Then LIV Golf CEO Norman (left) with Hong Kong Golf Club captain Andy Kwok in 2023. Photo: LIV Golf<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very draining on me,\u201d he said. \u201cI was working 100-hour weeks. I\u2019m not going to say all the abuse was anything [of consequence], but what hurt me the most was the lack of understanding of why people would judge me and give the abuse they did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian golf legend Greg Norman said he was proud of what he accomplished as the CEO of LIV…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,121139,651,121137,118461,2755,755,24416,14239,118460,1747,121138,121136,85,111588],"class_list":{"0":"post-191288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-golf-digest","11":"tag-brisbane","12":"tag-cleeks","13":"tag-dp-world-tour","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-greg-norman","17":"tag-liv-golf","18":"tag-martin-kaymer","19":"tag-pga-tour","20":"tag-saudi-backed-league","21":"tag-scott-oneil","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-the-athletic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}