{"id":1506421,"date":"2022-06-07T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506421"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:51:03","slug":"tiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-backed-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-backed-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods Rejected \u2018Mind-Blowingly Enormous\u2019 Offer From Saudi-Backed League"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-backed-league%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Professional Golf Association (PGA) paid out $20 million in a single tournament this year, its largest-ever purse.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not enough to keep every touring professional happy.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, which is making waves by courting some of the game\u2019s top names such as Phil Mickelson and Dustin (D.J.) Johnson, as well as 24 other top 150 players.<\/p>\n<p>But the league couldn\u2019t win over the game\u2019s biggest name, Tiger Woods.<\/p>\n<p>Former world No. 1 Greg Norman, CEO of the new golf league, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2022\/06\/05\/last-attack-greg-norman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> The Washington Post that Woods \u201cwas offered, and turned down, a deal that was \u2018mind-blowingly enormous.\u2019 The offer reached into the \u2018high nine\u2019 digits, Norman said,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/06\/tiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-golf-league\/\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s do the math: a million is seven figures, tens of millions are eight figures, and hundreds of millions are nine figures. Low is 1, 2, 3; mid is 4, 5, 6; high is 7, 8, 9. So let\u2019s take the lowest of the \u201chigh-nine digits\u201d and call it $700,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019ll buy you a lot of ugly golf pants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoods acknowledged before that he was approached by the LIV Tour before but rejected it,\u201d the Post said.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-backed league has also wooed other top names in golf. \u201cLIV Golf reportedly offered Jack Nicklaus more than $100 million to run the operation (Nicklaus passed), reportedly offered Dustin Johnson $125 million to play (DJ didn\u2019t pass) and, according to one Golf Channel report, paid [Phil] Mickelson an astounding $200 million to sign up,\u201d the Post reported in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/06\/phil-mickelson-pga-tour-proving-they-only-care-about-money\/\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Woods last month weighed in on the new league after Mickelson complained about the PGA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Mickelson] has his opinion on where he sees the game of golf going. I have my viewpoint on how I see the game of golf, and I\u2019ve supported the tour and my foundation has run events on the tour for a number of years. I just think that what Jack [Nicklaus] and Arnold [Palmer] have done in starting the tour and breaking away from the PGA of America and creating our tour in \u201968 or \u201969, somewhere in there, I just think there\u2019s a legacy to that,\u201d Woods\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/pgachampionship2022-tiger-woods-phil-mickelson-health-saudi-LIV-golf-pga-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> reporters\u00a0in May.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, the No. 13 world-ranked player who has won two majors, is the highest-ranked player to join the LIV series, which includes at least 26 of the top 150 players in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But Johnson \u201chas not been granted permission to leave and may now face a ban from the [PGA] tour,\u201d the Daily Mail\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-10873917\/Dustin-Johnson-makes-U-turn-joining-Saudi-backed-golf-league-having-committed-PGA-Tour.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDustin has been contemplating the opportunity off-and-on for the past couple of years. Ultimately, he decided it was in his and his family\u2019s best interest to pursue it,\u201d said his manager, David Winkle, according to the Mail. \u201c\u2018Dustin has never had any issue with the PGA Tour and is grateful for all it has given him, but in the end, felt this was too compelling to pass up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Professional Golf Association (PGA) paid out $20 million in a single tournament this year, its largest-ever purse. But that\u2019s not enough to keep every touring professional happy. Enter the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, which is making waves by courting some of the game\u2019s top names such as Phil Mickelson and Dustin (D.J.) Johnson, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1506480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}