Greg Norman made a surprise appearance at the Masters on Wednesday as a paying customer and expressed his disappointment that more of his LIV players have not been invited to the season’s first major.
Telegraph Sport revealed on Tuesday that a high-ranking LIV official was set to drop in, but nobody expected it to be the chief executive who has such a torrid Masters history with three runners-up finishes.
With negotiations going on between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund – which bankrolls LIV – tensions have clearly thawed, although it was pointed of Norman to enter the grounds as a member of the public, with no access to the inner sanctums of the clubhouse where the game’s powerbrokers annually assemble.