Common Joes taking part in LIV Golf? Greg Norman Jr. shares wild thought

One other golf season is coming to an finish, and whereas the richest professionals on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf acquired significantly richer over the course of the yr, we nonetheless are and not using a last 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 scale back the sector sizes at tournaments to a extra manageable measurement. The modifications are presently earlier than the Participant Advisory Council, awaiting its choice.

Among the many methods to succeed in their objective of smaller tournaments is the elimination of Monday Qualifiers at some tournaments, and the discount of spots out there at Monday Qualifiers at different occasions.

For these not within the know, Monday Qualifiers present a chance for non-Tour gamers to play their approach 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 thought for LIV that he has “been preaching for some time.”

The thought? Run weekly qualifiers at LIV occasions to make up a “Individuals’s Crew” that might compete towards the professionals like Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau.

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

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

Whether or not or not it might change into a actuality is one other query. The elder Norman’s contract with LIV expires on the finish of the yr, 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.