“Shame on you!” – Greg Norman hits back at critics

“If you pre-judge anybody without knowing the facts, then shame on you, to be honest with you.

“Are you scared of something? What is LIV Golf Investments doing that
you are scared of? Why do you have to have these attacks to the level
they do? Understand the fact that we have always and continued to be
very collaborative and cooperative with any of the institutions right
across the board. We want to work together side by side.”

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Appearing to address the PGA Tour and DP World Tour specifically, he added: “There’s a really interesting analogy. There’s a piece of pie,
right? So if these institutions you’re talking about, if a piece of
that pie has disappeared, does the pie get smaller or does the pie get
bigger?

“We see the piece of pie that we’re taking, the opportunity to
see through the lost opportunity, makes the pie bigger.

“When you look at Facebook, its share price was $3 at one time. Now what
is it? You’ve got to be able to give the ability to sit back and listen
and understand the opportunities to sit side by side for the sport of
golf. Simple as that. It’s all about the game.

“I cannot enforce this enough to anybody: it’s for the betterment of the game. It’s not for the betterment of the
administrations or anything else. It’s the betterment for the players,
the fans, the stakeholders, broadcasters, everybody across the board.

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“I would encourage them to sit back and say, maybe it’s a good time to sit down and understand if we can work side by side.”

Norman believes that by increasing the playing opportunties and prize funds on the Asian Tour, he will help to awaken a ‘sleeping giant’.

“We’ve given another pathway,” he said. “We’ve given another opportunity for
corporations, players, everybody across the board to see that fair and
equal competition is there to be had.

“For 40-plus
years, I’ve been involved with the game of golf. I’ve been involved with
these institutions that you’re probably referencing. That was my only pathway. You only had one choice to make. You
either had to go there or you had nowhere. That’s great. That’s what we had to deal with.

“But now there’s different pathways and if LIV Golf
Investments allows the Asian Tour to get elevated through the
International Series, God bless competition, right?”