Yesterday
Don’t worry, Trump knows what AUKUS is, Greg Norman says
The Australian golf legend says he’s prepared to help if he can to broker relations with his mate Donald Trump, as a deadline looms on tariffs and the president appears oblivious to the big-money submarine pact.
February
Golf club drama in the way of the Saudi revolution
The Saudi-backed golf exhibition will need Grange club members to agree to host the event in the years ahead.
This US senator stole Joe Hockey’s boots. Now they’ve joined forces
Joe Manchin says Australia will always be a valued ally even if it does not feel that way in the frenzied early days of Donald Trump.
January
Why Greg Norman is Australia’s bridge to Trump
The golfing great hinted that he was called upon once again to help bring together Canberra and the new president.
November 2024
‘Messy stuff is over’: LIV Golf dumps Greg Norman
The Great White Shark will be replaced by Scott O’Neil, who is CEO of Merlin Entertainments in the UK and former president of the NBA’s New York Knicks.
April 2024
Adelaide LIV goes off with Liveris, Fox and Saudi critic Anika Wells
The federal sports minister once called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia’s sporting endeavours. Now even she’s a guest at the Saudi-funded tournament.
Not even Greg Norman’s hysterical hubris can hide LIV’s collapse into periphery
Far from rescuing golf, he has plunged it into a profound crisis, where many of the game’s leading men are squirrelled away on a tour whose TV ratings are pathetically low.
December 2023
Jon Rahm joins LIV Golf in $455m blow to PGA Tour
The 29-year-old becomes the biggest name to sign on with the Greg Norman-run rebel circuit since Cameron Smith joined after winning the 2022 British Open.
October 2023
How golf got its swing back
The sport is attracting whole new categories of players to a growing number of variants of the game.
July 2023
‘No longer required’: Greg Norman sacked if LIV golf deal sealed
Saudi Arabia has also agreed to invest more than $1.5 billion if the new golf tie-up goes ahead, US Congress has been told in testimony to a subcommittee.
June 2023
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman says 2024 schedule is ‘nearing completion’
Norman’s own future with LIV Golf is also uncertain; his duties and role beyond the 2023 season have not been publicised.
Rory McIlroy now feels like ‘sacrificial lamb’ in shock LIV Golf deal
The Northern Irish player has been the loudest LIV critic, and a member of the PGA Tour’s policy board. And he was among the last to hear news of the merger.
April 2023
Bizoids bust out the tartan at court of Fox
The trucking tycoon turned 86 on Wednesday, and marked the day as extravagantly as any self-respecting billionaire could be expected to.
Australia ‘starved of top-class golf’, says defiant Norman
A defiant Greg Norman says it is only a matter of time before establishment has to start talking with LIV rebels.
Lindsay Fox’s 86th birthday bash comes with optional kilts
The key question for those on the guest list is how to fit a dress code that specifies ‘kilt or casual’.
Jon Rahm wins riveting Masters in special day for Spain
The Spanish superstar’s success fittingly came on the 40th anniversary of his idol Seve Ballesteros’ second Masters win in 1983, and on what would have been the late Ballesteros’ 66th birthday.
Adam Scott urges Min Woo Lee to seize the moment at US Masters
The Perth prodigy and Sydney amateur sensation Harrison Crowe will be the first Australians to hit the fabled fairways late on Thursday and early Friday (AEST).
November 2022
Woods says Greg Norman ‘has to go’ in golf’s mounting feud
The 15-time major champion took aim at the Australian over the legal fight between the controversial Saudi-funded LIV tour and the PGA Tour.
August 2022
Cameron Smith stays silent on report he’s joining Saudi league
The world No. 2 has reportedly agreed to join Greg Norman’s breakaway golf tour for a sign-on fee of $140 million after the FedexCup.
Phil Mickelson sues PGA Tour in fresh LIV fight
The six-time major winner and other golfers say the PGA Tour is an ‘entrenched monopolist with a vice grip on professional golf’.