Norman appears in the Dubai Championships
Two-time British Open champion Greg – Norman said ahead of the Dubai World Championship, golf tournament prize money because of the economic downturn’s sake will continue to decline, to advise players should recognize the current economic situation tighten its belt.
54-year-old Australian superstar Norman Wednesday to attend their own design Jumeirah Golf Manor golf course a time of earth enough to guard the people’s remarks. He said: “Golf will not be as in the past, and now it faces a difficult state of the economy is in trouble now. I hate players who go to see evidence of the economic downturn, but the players must be aware that this . I went through quite good economic situation in cycles, and then they entered another cycle of a situation. but I think the players were not present to witness such a situation, because they had never seen. I have experienced three the cycle of economic downturn. ”
“Jaws”, then is not unreasonable. When officially launched in Dubai last year’s contest, when the original European Tour year-end points – the Dubai World Championship will have 10 million U.S. dollars in prize money. But by the global economic recession, when the players came to earth course, the Dubai World Championship is no longer the world’s richest golf tournament, and it reduced the total prize money 7.5 million U.S. dollars.
Norman said that the economic situation of the PGA Tour and European Tour may be reflected elsewhere. “We are golfer to be ready to begin operations, and we should guard against such a situation. We all have to tighten its belt, I think the players were about to take responsibility and realize that.”
England champion Lee – Westwood has won this year, about three million U.S. dollars in prize money. He said the Dubai World Championship prize money even if the shrinkage, but still is still very substantial bonus. “We should not complain about the bonus has been reduced here, because we still have the game a lot of money, we realized that some of golf sponsors are now struggling.”
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