{"id":39888,"date":"2022-06-07T03:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T03:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-golf-league\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T03:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T03:24:45","slug":"tiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-golf-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-golf-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods rejected &#8216;mind-blowingly enormous&#8217; offer from Saudi golf league"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Great White Shark couldn&#8217;t catch the Tiger by his toe &#8211; or through a massive pile of money.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Norman, the creator of the Saudi-backed and controversial golf series, told the Washington Post that Tiger Woods was offered, and turned down, a deal that was &#8220;mind-blowingly enormous.&#8221;  The offer reached into the \u201chigh nine\u201d digits, Norman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Post&#8217;s Mark Cannizzaro broke that Phil Mickelson signed with the golf series &#8211; which is expected to directly compete with the PGA Tour. Mickelson&#8217;s deal is worth $ 200 million, according to Golf Channel. <\/p>\n<p>Other high-profile golfers such as Kevin Na and Dustin Johnson are also expected to compete in Norman&#8217;s new league starting as early as Thursday, where the series will tee-off outside London.<\/p>\n<p>Woods acknowledged before that he was approached by the LIV Tour before but rejected it.  The legendary golfer also acknowledged Mickelson&#8217;s controversial comments toward the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Tiger Woods reportedly turned down a massive offer to join Greg Norman&#8217;s LIV Golf.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Christian Petersen \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;[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&#8217;ve 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 &#8217;68 or &#8217;69, somewhere in there, I just think there&#8217;s a legacy to that, \u201dWoods told reporters in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been playing out here for a couple of years over decades, and I think there&#8217;s a legacy to it.  I still think that the tour has so much to offer, so much opportunity. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great White Shark couldn&#8217;t catch the Tiger by his toe &#8211; or through a massive pile of money. Greg Norman, the creator of the Saudi-backed and controversial golf series, told the Washington Post that Tiger Woods was offered, and turned down, a deal that was &#8220;mind-blowingly enormous.&#8221; The offer reached into the \u201chigh nine\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tiger-woods-rejected-mind-blowingly-enormous-offer-from-saudi-golf-league\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tiger Woods rejected &#8216;mind-blowingly enormous&#8217; offer from Saudi golf league<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[2966,6929,3452,8138,295,3579],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/tigerwoods.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}