‘This One Cuts Deep’: Greg Norman Miffed By Rory McIlroy’s Premier Golf League Opposition
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2020-03-03
By JOSH SENS, Golf.com
For a concept pitched as a pathway for the future, the Premier Golf League has inspired a lot of talk about the past.
Witness recent comments from Rory McIlroy, who framed his opposition to the PGL, the lavishly funded, would-be global golf tour, partly out of the desire to have autonomy over his schedule but also partly as a matter of principle over money.
“I would like to be on the right side of history with this one, just sort of as Arnold [Palmer] was with the whole Greg Norman thing in the ’90s,” the world No. 1 said last week at the WGC-Mexico Championship.
Those words have put him on the wrong side of Norman, who looks at history in a different light and believes that McIlroy has a distorted view, one he likely didn’t come to on his own.
“I like Rory, no question about it,” Norman told GOLF.com. “But I think what he said was probably coming less from him than it was coming from people around him.”
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