WATCH: LIV Golf CEO confirms high-dollar supply to Tiger Woods

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman confirmed that the upstart golf league was keen to deliver out the large bucks in a bid to persuade golf icon Tiger Woods to affix.

Throughout an interview that aired Monday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson pressed Norman on rumors that LIV supplied Woods between $700 billion and $800 billion. That seemed to be a slip-up, and he probably meant to say million. Nonetheless, Norman responded within the affirmative that this wage vary had been floating round and mentioned LIV was keen to draw the golf legend to its ranks.

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"That quantity was on the market earlier than I grew to become CEO. That quantity has been on the market, sure. Tiger is a needle mover. So [of] course, you bought to take a look at the perfect of the perfect. They initially approached Tiger earlier than I grew to become CEO, so sure, that quantity is someplace in that neighborhood."

Carlson had been noticed on the LIV occasion at former President Donald Trump's New Jersey golf membership in Bedminster over the weekend. Throughout his present, Carlson made it clear that he had been concerned with exploring how LIV was looking for to problem the PGA Tour however was adamant that he was not selecting sides.

Woods was severely injured in a serious automobile crash in February of final yr and described a painful street to restoration. He has returned to golf however has forged doubt on how aggressive he can be going ahead given the state of his accidents.

Quite a lot of big-name skilled golfers, together with Rory McIlory, Cameron Smith, and Scottie Scheffler, have joined LIV. The upstart golf competitors, which has amassed a monster monetary backing from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, has been providing outstanding golfers profitable contracts to affix its league. Golf star Phil Mickelson was even heckled by a spectator who shouted at one level final week, “Do it for the Saudi royal household!”

Woods has publicly forged aspersions on the monetary state of affairs with LIV.

"These gamers which can be doing it for assured cash, what's the incentive to observe? What's the incentive to go on the market and earn it within the dust? You’re simply getting paid some huge cash up entrance and enjoying just a few occasions, enjoying 54 holes," Woods mentioned final month.

Rumors had swirled that LIV had its eyes set on getting Woods to affix its golf revolt. In Could, Woods withdrew from the PGA Championship on account of his accidents.

The PGA Tour, which is run by a separate group from the organizers of the PGA Championship, has blocked a number of the skilled golfers who participated in LIV from competing in its occasions, prompting an antitrust inquiry.

LIV has been dealing with a firestorm from households of 9/11 victims over the previous's ties to Saudi Arabia, whose potential connections to the assaults had been examined by the FBI. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 had been Saudi. The dominion has denied culpability for 9/11 and distanced the crown prince from the 2018 homicide of Washington Submit columnist Jamal Khashoggi.