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LIV Golf Continues to Try New Ways to Be Noticed

Whether it’s the team concept or a decision to allow its golfers to play in shorts, the breakaway Saudi-backed series so far sees itself as the anti-PGA Tour.

Greg Norman landed by parachute during the first round of the LIV Golf tournament on Friday at The International in Bolton, Mass.Credit...Richard Cashin/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

BOLTON, Mass. — The LIV Golf event outside Boston was minutes from beginning on Friday, and Greg Norman, the frontman for the insurgent Saudi-backed circuit, needed a new, showy way to make an entrance in the rancorous battle for the future of men’s golf.