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Greg Norman hopeful for special exemption to play in Open Championship at St. Andrews

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Saturday, 23 April 2022 08:30

Greg Norman has created an industry out of pushing back against the status quo in professional golf, so it was no surprise that he applied the same sensibilities to his competitive future.

The Australian told News Corp that he has set his sights on a return to competition later this summer at The Open Championship. Norman hasn’t played in a PGA Tour event since 2012, and at 67 years old, he is seven years past the exemption threshold for former champions.

“I think I can still get in,” said Norman, who last played The Open in 2009 at Turnberry. “It’s the 150th. I’m a past Open champion. I love St. Andrews.

“If there’s a moment in time that I would consider going back and teeing off one last time. Maybe this is it.”

According to a spokesperson for Norman, he does not plan to attempt to qualify for The Open but instead will submit a request for a special exemption. In 2014, the R&A granted Tom Watson a special exemption into The Open at age 65.

The R&A did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding a possible special exemption for Norman.

Norman’s request comes in the middle of a growing divide in professional golf between the established tours and LIV Golf, which is the organization behind a startup rival league that is led by Norman. LIV Golf plans to hold a series of invitational events starting in June that are poised to lure players away from the PGA Tour and DP World Tour with limited fields, team formats and lucrative purses. Late last year, LIV Golf made a sizable investment into the Asian Tour.

Some saw the R&A’s move as a not-so-subtle show of support for the PGA Tour.

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