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Greg Norman, LIV Golf, and the Saudi Human Rights Excuse
from #301 - Everyone Makes Mistakes | The Tim Dillon Show · #301
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Tim and guests discuss golfer Greg Norman fronting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour, Phil Mickelson's gambling debts owed to his caddy Bones Mackay, and Norman's dismissive comments on the Khashoggi murder, spiraling into riffing on Saudi Arabia's culture, women's rights, and Beverly Hills excess.
- Greg Norman says Khashoggi's murder was just a mistake everyone makes.
- Saudis now own stakes in Live Nation, free speech, and real estate across America.
- Phil Mickelson got $40 million to jump from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf, allegedly to cover gambling debts.
- Players who defect to the Saudi tour get banned from the PGA Tour.
- Norman's defense: everyone makes mistakes, like torturing reporters on closed-circuit TV and learning how to do it better.
- Tim's take: caring about golf as an adult is absurd, like a former swimmer obsessing over competitive swimming.
- Mickelson plays massive golf bets with guys like Jordan, gambling on trick shots instead of using his skill.
- Tim expresses admiration for Saudi culture: rich people who smoke and quiet women.
- Tim argues Saudi Arabia's requirement for women to ask permission to travel might actually be a better system.
- Tim hopes LIV Golf becomes flashy and ostentatious Saudi-style instead of boring and waspy.
- American women traveling abroad just get drunk and falsely accuse sailors of rape, so why should Saudi women need to travel.
Greg NormanJamal KhashoggiPhil MickelsonWe wish them wellSaudi ArabiaLIV GolfPGA TourBones McCoy