In part two of our look at the LIV Golf-PGA Tour merger, Greg Norman is now CEO of LIV Golf, unleashing a civil war in the sport.

Money is thrown around like a loose bucks night, as golfers make hundreds of millions of dollars by swapping sides.

Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy then ask they question, after all the unpleasantness, why the sudden change of heart?

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Resources

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Greg Norman, Way of the Shark: Lessons on golf, business, and life, Atria Books, 2007.

Thomas Boswell, ‘Norman Golfing for Greed in Plans for World Tour’, Washington Post, 18 November 1994.

Dave Seanor, ‘A man and an idea ahead of their time’, Sports Illustrated, 14 November 2019.

Bob Harig, ‘A Disruptor to the PGA Tour Is Here, and Professional Golf May Never Be the Same’, Sports Illustrated, 10 June 2022.

Cydney Henderson, ‘“We’ve all made mistakes”: Greg Norman downplays the killing of journalist while promoting Saudi backed golf league’, USA Today, 11 May 2022.

David Rowe, ‘How Saudi Arabia came to be at the centre of a global golf merger’, The Conversation, 7 June 2023.

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