Common Joes enjoying LIV Golf? Greg Norman Jr. shares wild concept

One other golf season is coming to an finish, and whereas the richest execs on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf obtained significantly richer over the course of the 12 months, we nonetheless are and not using a remaining settlement formally ending professional golf’s divorce.

Because of this, each side are persevering with on their very own separate paths. The PGA Tour, for instance, is contemplating a bevy of modifications to cut back the sector sizes at tournaments to a extra manageable measurement. The modifications are at the moment earlier than the Participant Advisory Council, awaiting its choice.

Among the many methods to achieve their aim of smaller tournaments is the elimination of Monday Qualifiers at some tournaments, and the discount of spots accessible at Monday Qualifiers at different occasions.

For these not within the know, Monday Qualifiers present a chance for non-Tour gamers to play their method into that week’s event. They’ve been the supply of quite a few feel-good tales of unknown gamers incomes a spot in PGA Tour occasions.

However now that might largely be coming to an finish. Enter the son of present LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman, Greg Norman Jr.

Upon listening to of the potential modifications to PGA Tour Monday Qualifiers, Norman Jr. took to X to share a wild concept for LIV that he has “been preaching for some time.”

The concept? Run weekly qualifiers at LIV occasions to make up a “Folks’s Group” that might compete in opposition to the professionals like Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau.

“For what it’s value… I’ve been preaching for awhile that LIV ought to completely open up weekly qualifiers for a Folks’s Group, a crew that anybody can qualify for,” Norman Jr. wrote on X. “When you play properly, you keep on the crew, and most of the people can take part in shared possession and governance.”

Now, the qualifying occasions would possible stop any true Common Joe hackers from teeing it up in opposition to the professionals, as is the case with Monday Qualifiers on the PGA Tour. However it nonetheless would offer a brand new and entertaining avenue to attract curiosity from sports activities followers to the upstart league.

Whether or not or not it might turn out to be a actuality is one other query. The elder Norman’s contract with LIV expires on the finish of the 12 months, and we don’t but know whether or not it will likely be renewed or if another person will take the helm at LIV Golf.