{"id":432707,"date":"2023-04-05T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432707"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:37:37","slug":"greg-norman-will-not-attend-the-87th-masters-this-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/greg-norman-will-not-attend-the-87th-masters-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Norman will not attend the 87th Masters this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Ridley, the chair of Augusta National Golf Club, said that Greg Norman is not invited to watch the upcoming Masters to avoid drama.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley explains the decision not to invite LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman to the Masters \u26f3\u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Sx4iU950c\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0Sx4iU950c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1643639842838917120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ridley explained that he wants all of the spotlight to be on the Masters and the golf players and not on the breach between LIV Golf and PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not extend an invitation to Mr. Norman,&#8221; Ridley told on Wednesday. &#8220;The primary issue and the driver there is that I want the focus this week to be on the Masters&#8217; competition,&#8221; he added in his news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Norman answered in an interview\u00a0that it was &#8220;petty&#8221; not to welcome him in the 87<sup>th<\/sup> Masters. However, the main people of the PGA Tour &#8211; Jay Monahan, and the DP World Tour &#8211; Keith Pelley, are invited and will appear in the Masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Ridley, the chair of Augusta National Golf Club, said that Greg Norman is not invited to watch the upcoming Masters to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432708,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18544,17422,17867,16988],"news_category":[16713,14084],"gn_keywords":[18614,18615,18616,7308],"acf":{"announce":"The CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf was not invited to limit LIV farce.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432707"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432707"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}