Each passing week brings news to the horizon of the LIV Golf planet. The rumors, more and more insistent, spread last week, speak of a possible involvement of sponsors, which I would dare to define “heavy”, interested in branding the Teams of four players of the events of the League led by Greg Norman.
The signal would be very important in a scenario so far characterized by the breaking of numerous contracts, also by historical sponsors, with the players who have signed with LIV (Phil MIckelson, Dustin Johnson, Ian James Poulter, just to name a few ).
The number one candidate is called Adidas Golf, ready to pay the $ 1 billion sponsorship ticket. Obviously, the recipient Team of the brand created by Adi Dassler in 1949 would be that of 4Aces, led by Dustin Johnson, already testimonial of the house.
Obviously, no comments or official press releases on the matter have, until now, been released by Adidas Golf. The idea of the branded team is part of Greg Norman’s larger project, which would see in all this the birth of a team system close to that existing in Formula 1.
The @LIVGolfLatest Twitter account (strictly not connected to LIV Golf), talks about two other sponsors interested in becoming the title of a LIV Golf Team. AT&T and Srixon. The appearance of the Japanese brand is even more significant when linked to another rumor that has recently echoed on Socials.
Hideki Matsuyama and Liv
Hideki Matsuyama, Srixon testimonial, would be ready to sign with the Saudi League for the monstrous sum of $ 400 million. Hideki Matsuyama is a Japanese golfer, mainly active on the PGA Tour and Japan Golf Tour.
He is the first Japanese in the history of sport to win a men’s major, thanks to his triumph at the Masters 2021. Born in the city of Matsuyama, he began playing golf at the age of four under the guidance of his father.
He completes his education at Sendai’s Tōhoku Fukushi University, winning the 2010 and 2011 editions of the Asian Amateur Golf Championships. This result qualifies him by right to the 2011 Masters (the first Japanese amateur to do so), where he wins the Silver Cup and is the only amateur golfer in the competition.
The following week he finished third at the Japan Open Golf Championship, one of the stages of the Japan Golf Tour. In 2011 he represented Japan at the 2011 Shenzhen Universiade, where he won gold in both individual and team competition – together with Fujimoto, Kobukuro and Tomimura.
After defending the title at the Asian Amateur Championships, he wins the Taiheiyo Masters, another stop on the Japan Golf Tour, in November. [8] His success at an amateur level earned him position No. 1 in the world amateur ranking in August 2012.
