Golf legend Greg Norman lured Australian stars Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman to join his controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf series with the promise of a 25 percent stake in one of the tour’s 12 …
Golf legend Greg Norman lured Australian stars Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman to join his controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf series with the promise of a 25 percent stake in one of the tour’s 12 franchises.
Under the business model proposed, Smith and Leishman will be given the keys to Punch GC and spearhead LIV Golf’s push into Australia from 2023.“You’ve got to think about it from Cam’s perspective, he completely understood one thing that other people are struggling to understand: the value LIV Golf brings, and that new value is the franchise,” Norman told the publication.
“ sees the market that Australia presents and the market which, quite honestly, has been starved of high-quality players and new value for the game of golf. The Presidents Cup comes in there once every seven to 10 years, sucks the economy dry and then disappears.
Smith’s next, and only, chance to get world ranking points in the foreseeable future will come at the Australian Open and PGA in November and December, which he and fellow LIV convert Leishman have committed to playing.
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