"There's 23 PGA Tour sponsors who invest up to $40 billion into Saudi Arabia. He added Saudi investment isn't unique to LIV. It's up to me and my executive team to run and govern this thing going forward." "But everything is up to LIV Golf Investments. There's no question about that, no denying about that," Norman said. "PIF (the Saudi Public Investment Fund) is our – our single-source investor. In the interview with Kilmeade, Norman responded to concerns about LIV Golf being bankrolled by the government of Saudi Arabia by stressing his company's independence. "This announcement with the CW Network was critical to what we're doing," Norman said. NEWSLETTER: Sign up to get the latest sports news and stories sent to your inboxĪfter having tournaments only broadcast on streaming video during its first year of existence, LIV Golf last week reached a multiyear deal with the CW Network to carry its events live on television and online. We know what we're doing."ĮAMON LYNCH: In LIV's new TV deal, the desperation is in the details "Just making those comments, I think, is an indication that he might be a bit of a mouthpiece for the PGA Tour to try and do – to get us to create – or get turmoil, create it internally within LIV," Norman said. Norman also said Woods' words won't have any impact on how his company does business. The relationship has become so adversarial, Tiger Woods said in November the only way to get the two sides talking again is for Norman to step down as LIV Golf CEO.Īppearing Saturday night on Fox News Channel's "One Nation with Brian Kilmeade," Norman said Woods "doesn't know the facts. The two sides have filed legal action against each other after several established PGA Tour stars – including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka – jumped to the rival tour last year. She also deposited over $9,000 in cash into various bank accounts days after the murder.Ī week later, Norman contacted the life insurance company and tried to collect on the policy he had taken out on his nephew, the release said.Watch Video: Why the PGA and media shouldn’t underestimate LIV GolfĪs the war of words – and lawsuits – between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf continue into the new year, Greg Norman says he's more concerned about the fledgling tour's business interests than its feud with golf's establishment. The woman’s “phone location information places her in the vicinity of the murder at time of the homicide,” the release said.įollowing Montgomery’s murder, she placed another call to Norman and traveled toward Memphis, Tennessee, according to the release. That day around 8:02 p.m., Montgomery was shot to death, the release said. The female suspect “also used the temporary phone to communicate with Montgomery and learn his physical location.”Īfter learning Montgomery’s location, she immediately placed a call to Norman, according to the release. The next day, the two were in communication using temporary phones they had activated that day, the release said. Louis, Missouri, from his home in Los Angeles, California, according to the release. The day before Montgomery’s murder, March 13, 2016, Norman flew to St. In the days leading up to Montgomery’s murder, the other suspect communicated with Montgomery and told him she was planning to be in St. Norman was the sole beneficiary, according to the release. In 2014, Norman obtained a $450,000 life insurance policy on his 18-year-old nephew, Andre Montgomery. The dancer has also been charged in the plot, according to the release. The complaint alleges that Norman conspired with an exotic dancer residing in Memphis, Tennessee, and others “to use a facility of interstate commerce, namely, a cellular telephone, to commit a murder-for-hire in exchange for United States currency.” Louis Post-Dispatch.ĬNN has reached out to Norman’s Public Defender for comment. Norman is the son of Robbie Montgomery, reality TV star and owner of “Sweetie Pie’s” restaurant, according to the St. James Timothy Norman, 41, was charged in a federal complaint from last week, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Missouri. Authorities arrested a man in Mississippi on Tuesday for allegedly commissioning a murder-for-hire plot that killed his teenage nephew.
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