'Disappear': $1.1 billion warning for Greg Norman

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It's estimated LIV Golf spent astir $1.15 cardinal to get up and moving successful 2023, but a starring fig successful the play manufacture warns it indispensable get stronger, oregon hazard disappearing wrong 3 years.

LIV Golf's 2nd play gets underway successful Mexico connected Saturday morning, with a fig of issues inactive unresolved, main among them the continuing conflict for satellite rankings points for the Greg Norman-led league.

A fistful of caller names person signed connected for twelvemonth two, but it's just to accidental nary are truly going to determination the needle successful the conflict with the PGA Tour.

Belgium's Thomas Pieters is the highest-ranked of the caller signings, astatine 35 successful the world, but he's present six years removed from his lone top-five decorativeness astatine a major, though helium has won six times connected the European Tour, astir precocious successful January 2022.

The PGA Tour has reacted to the menace from LIV Golf by expanding prizemoney astatine what it calls "elevated" oregon "designated" events, successful what shapes arsenic a protracted warfare betwixt the 2 sides.

For its part, LIV is focusing connected the teams facet of its competition, with Norman claiming that the "most fashionable sports successful the satellite are squad sports."

According to erstwhile agent, Andrew 'Chubby' Chandler, who counted Ernie Els and Rory McIlroy amongst his clients, 2023 is shaping arsenic "a large twelvemonth for LIV".

"The PGA Tour has done truthful overmuch to support going forward, present LIV person got to find a fewer gems and Pieters doesn't rather acceptable that bill," helium told the BBC.

"They've got to support adding to their roster oregon it volition beryllium precise dull, won't it? There's a batch depending connected what they bash this year. They person to marque this squad happening much interesting."

Chandler has compared LIV to different upstart organisation which has made immense inroads successful conscionable implicit a decennary - the Indian Premier League.

"Every IPL squad has a high-profile, precise affluent owner," helium pointed out.

"That is wherever I deliberation this has to spell if it is going to win and that's wherever the worth comes."

LIV Golf volition travel to Adelaide successful April, a invited alternate to the insular PGA Tour which has efficaciously destroyed the once-thriving Australasian Tour.

But Chandler says Norman's league needs to instrumentality important steps forward, and quickly.

"The nationalist volition determine successful the end," helium added. "They'll either ticker connected TV oregon not; they'll either spell to the tournaments oregon not.

"To support going LIV has to get stronger, it can't beryllium arsenic is everlastingly oregon it'll vanish successful 2 oregon 3 years time."

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