LIV Golf: The head of the Saudi federation assures that the dissident League could create its own Majors

The war of golf authorities continues.

Majed Al Sorour, the president of the Saudi Golf Federation, plans to create his own Grand Slam tournaments if players from the breakaway League (LIV Golf) are banned from taking part in the four traditional Grand Slam events: Masters, PGA Championship , US Open and British Open.

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Majed Al Sorour is close to Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Director of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), which supports LIV Golf with millions of dollars, and the president of Aramco, a powerful Saudi oil company.

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As a reminder, players who left the PGA Tour for Saudi-backed LIV Golf have been suspended from the US Tour this year.

The new League is trying to get its tournaments sanctioned by the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), which could allow its players to participate in major tournaments in 2023 based on their results on LIV.

So far, however, the world ranking organizer has yet to approve the LIV events.

And the four institutions that currently manage the Grand Slam tournaments: Augusta National Golf Club (Masters), PGA of America (PGA Championship), United States Golf Association (US Open) and Royal & Ancient (British Open) are reluctant.

For now, the LIV has recently partnered with the MENA Tour,

Saudi Federation president denies Tiger Woods

Led by former world No. 1, Australian Greg Norman, the divisive League will end its season in a few days (October 28-30) in Miami (Florida) at the Trump National Doral.

A final whose endowment rose to … 50 million dollars.

In the end, she managed to attract Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson, Cameron Smith, Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood, among others.

Not Tiger Woods.

While Greg Norman, chief executive of LIV Golf, told Fox News in August that Woods turned down an offer of between $700 million and $800 million, Sorour denied that information to The New Yorker.

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