Greg Norman says that his LIV Golf tour that he’s the CEO of is a year ahead of schedule and will be playing a full league in 2023.

In an interview with Australian Golf Digest, Norman said that the next steps would be to play a full schedule next year, expand their fields, and have the LIV events earn golfers Official World Golf Ranking points.

Norman told the magazine:

“There will be more player announcements before then, but we’re set on the maximum amount of players…It’s interesting, we’re still getting calls from agents of top-40 players in the world wanting to join LIV, but it’s too late now. I mean, we’d love to have them all, but we can’t get them in. What it tells me, though, is what we’re doing is very appealing to the world’s best players.”

Earlier this week, Ernie Els suggested that LIV wouldn’t be eligible for the world rankings—that would put LIV golfers in line to play in the four majors—because all of the events are smaller, no-cut, 54-hole events.

“We have worked hard to understand and meet the requirements to apply for OWGR points and have submitted our application. I am highly confident with our strength of field – which grows each week with player signings – and our individual format that it puts us in a very good place to secure official OWGR points.”

Norman also said that he wishes to work with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour instead of being treated as their enemy, and he would accept a meeting with officials from either tour at any time.

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