Within minutes of amateur Nick Dunlap’s historic PGA Tour victory, Greg Norman’s texts were lighting up with demands from his Saudi overlords to bring the same level of excitement and drama to LIV Golf.
“Are you seeing this, Shark? Why don’t we have any Cinderella stories? LIV needs drama, Greg Norman! Spare no expense. Buy us some amateurs! Get us some underdogs, Shark!” the texts read.
The Alabama sophomore’s improbable victory over some of the PGA Tour’s finest highlighted what’s special about the PGA Tour and exposed one of LIV Golf’s most glaring weaknesses. LIV Golf can’t produce the high-drama, engrossing narratives that are a recurring attraction on the PGA Tour.
A tour composed almost entirely of entitled, overpaid wicked stepsisters playing exhibition golf will never produce any Cinderella stories. Who looks back on any NBA season and goes, “Wow, that was some All-Star Game!”?
I know, somebody’s going to come at me with the Chili Dippers defeat of the Sandbaggers in the team finals as an example of pressure-packed, LIV Golf high drama at its finest. Sure, I’m old school and I don’t get it.
“Greg Norman,” the texts continue, “get me a journeyman golfer who is about due for a breakthrough victory. We need a couple of almost washed up tour veterans who yearn to taste victory one more time. Buy me some fearless young guns ready to announce their arrival to the world. Whatever it takes, Greg Norman. There is plenty of money in the bottomless PIF.”
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