Tiger Woods, whose net worth was placed at north of $1bn dollars by Forbes last month, recently turned down a chance to nearly double his bank account.
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that Woods declined an offer of between $700m and $800m to join the new Saudi-backed tour.
“That number was out there before I became CEO,” Norman said of the dollar figure presented to Woods. “Look, Tiger is a needle-mover, right? So, of course you're got to look at the best of the best. They had originally approached Tiger before I became CEO. That number is somewhere in that neighbourhood.”
“You're just getting paid a lot of money up front and playing a few events and playing 54 holes. They're playing blaring music and have all these atmospheres that are different ... I just don't see how that move is positive in the long term for a lot of these players, especially if the LIV organisation doesn't get world-ranking points and the major championships change their criteria for entering the events.
“Greg has done some things that I don't think is in the best interest of our game, and we're coming back to probably the most historic and traditional place in our sport,” Woods said. “I believe it's the right thing .”“It's a monopoly,” Norman said of the older circuit. “They just want to shut us down whatever way they can, so they'll use whatever leverage point they can to shut us down, and they're not.
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