In a wide-ranging interview with The New Yorker, Saudi Golf chief executive Majed Al Sorour escalated the ongoing divide in professional golf and threatened to “to set up our own majors” if the Grand Slam events banned players who joined LIV Golf.
The four major championships – run by the USGA, R&A, PGA of America and Augusta National – have been largely aloof when it comes to the players who joined the Saudi-backed league but in July, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers suggested that could change.
“I never said the best golfers will not be able to play.