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There’s a story Greg Norman told recently that might go some way to explaining the man they used to call the Great White Shark.
By extension it possibly explains his compulsion to chew up anyone who gets in the way of his sordid romance with Saudi Arabia.
It concerns his father, Merv, an electrical engineer with whom he has always had a strained relationship. When Norman was about 15, the tale goes, his dad tried to block his plans to become a pro golfer, and that ended with the older man pinned up against the fridge and the lad saying ‘f*** you’.
Former world No 1 Greg Norman is now the CEO of Saudi-backed LIV Golf Investments
The past and present show two pertinent things — that Norman doesn’t much care for being told what to do, and secondly that he usually gets his way in the end.
Which is how we find ourselves here, in St Albans, staring at the moral and sporting crater caused by his partnership with the Saudis. The LIV Invitational? Or LIV and let die, as plenty wish it would.
Enough has been said on the ethical and organisational fronts across the past three days for another re-hash, but what has become a point of subtle interest at Centurion Club is how the firestarter has retreated from view.
A few weeks back, when he was discussing the mutilation of Jamal Khashoggi in the context of ‘mistakes’, the mystery was how so many words could escape his mouth with a foot in the way.
Norman has declined interview requests from the mainstream media, preferring to stay silent
The debut LIV Golf Invitational event is currently being held at the Centurion Club in St Albans
By Friday afternoon, his sales tactic seemed to have shifted to silence. It was asked on Thursday evening if an audience would be granted to mainstream media — not the script readers on their in-house broadcasts — and the answer from his communications staff was no.
It was suggested again on Friday, when Sportsmail
