Norman pleased with ‘free agent’ as LIV Invitational jump starts

• The breakaway series, bankrolled as much as $250 million by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
• It is the most extravagant in golf’s set of experiences.

Norman Former world number one discussed his pride at bringing “free agent” to golf as his youngster LIV Invitational Series started off.

“This is what’s truly going on with it. To see the players, to feel the caddies, to have the relatives coming dependent upon me and I shared with every one of them ‘this is for you folks, this is for yourself and the fans…'”, Australian Norman said.

“We’ve been attempting to get this going for quite a long time frankly with you and I simply feel so glad for the players, I feel so glad for the way that we’ve carried free organization to the sport of golf.”

The PGA Tour and the Europe-based DP World Tour both declined demands from individuals for deliveries to contend at the primary occasion at The Centurion club close to St Albans, where the champ of the singular rivalry will take $4 million – – the biggest victors’ really look at any point in golf.

Not long after play began, the PGA declared that those players partaking would be suspended from its Tour, a move LIV Golf portrayed as pernicious.

With no mostly cut engaged with the 54-opening arrangement, completing last of the 48 players partaking in the occasion ensures $120,000.

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The eighth and last occasion of the series in Miami, the summit of the group title, has a $50 million handbag.

Notwithstanding being immersed in debate, Norman said he was pleased to be “becoming the sport of golf”.

“The players are going ‘goodness my golly we never anticipated this’,” Norman said. “They never anticipated that LIV golf should be what it is today – – they most likely never anticipated the energy.

“The draft party a few evenings ago was marvelously phenomenal. To see the 48 players connect the manner in which they did during the draft party. For me that was a wow factor second.”

The LIV Invitational crowns a singular champ after seven occasions while a group contest including 12 groups of four chose by skippers, for example, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson at a draft runs close by.

Norman said the group component made the LIV Series unique.

“The singular side of LIV Golf is fundamentally significant and we’ve generally ensured that was essential for the item,” he said.

“Yet, past that, when I went to the Ryder Cup interestingly it just knocked my socks off to see the fan commitment. The player collaboration I will always remember on the main tee.

“That is the very thing’s absent and that is the reason we assembled this group an incentive for LIV Golf.”