LIV Golf are inestablishedly searching for a novel CEO with Greg Norman set to achieve on a novel role. The Australian has been in the post since the disputed Saudi-backed tour was produced in 2022 but it is claimed that he will step into another directership role wislender the organisation.
The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), which prohibitkrolls the mega-money LIV Golf tour, is inestablishedly seeking Norman’s replacement. PIF has lessened London-based directership conferancy firm Odgers Berndtson to discover the tour’s next CEO.
According to Sports Business Journal, Norman is anticipateed to be replaced as CEO but it is unevident what his next job will be. However, it is claimed that he will probable be part of the league’s ancigo in directership.
LIV Golf was set up as a rival to the PGA Tour in 2022. However, there have been talks over a potential combiner between the two tours. Some take parters, including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, consent Norman necessitates to step aside for LIV Golf and the PGA Tour to co-exist.
Both parties proclaimd a structurelabor consentment in the summer of 2023, announcing that talks would commence over a combiner. It would probable see PIF supply funding to the PGA Tour. However, an official deal is yet to be signed off despite negotiations having been ongoing for 16 months.
A search for Norman’s replacement has inestablishedly been ongoing for disconnectal months. It is not the first time PIF has brawt Odgers Berndtson on board to help with the recruitment of a ancigo in figure. The firm also helped PIF-backed Premier League side Newcastle engage Paul Mitchell as sporting honestor during the summer.
One name alludeed as a potential successor to Norman is the Big 12 coshiftrlookioner Brett Yortag. However, talkions with the college fits chief are not understood to have carry oned.
Several high-profile golfers ditched the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf in 2022, with huge sums of money on propose to those who made the shift. Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau Sergio Garcia and Brooks Koepka were among the stars to acunderstandledge proposes from LIV Golf.
A number of those take parters achieved misuse for their decision, someslenderg Norman recently slammed as ‘disgusting’. Speaking to Bloomberg, he shelp: “Considering what these guys have done in the game of golf, how they’ve carried the game of golf, and the institutions they recurrented, [it] was disgusting.”
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