Greg Norman’s last few years have been turbulent as he tried to help LIV Golf get off the ground.
According to a social media post from this week, however, the two-time major champion had real turbulence that could have proved catastrophic.
Norman told Australian Golf Digest he was flying from Los Angeles to Florida when the windscreen of his private jet shattered mid-flight. En route back to his Palm Beach home, pilots had to perform an emergency landing after a loud bang rocked the cabin.
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The next move, according to The Shark? “F–king land!” Norman laughs.
Of course, laughing about such situations is something the 70-year-old can do, for this isn’t the first time he’s had a scare up in the clouds.
“It’s certainly not my first rodeo with events like this,” adds Norman. “The last (mid-air emergency) I had was in my plane climbing at 30,000 feet and – BANG! – we dived to about 10,000 feet and slowed down,” he recalls.
“I’ve had more interesting things, as much as I’ve flown over the years – lightning strikes, cabin fires, breaking the ceiling barrier to see the curvature of the earth, losing hydraulics after taking off from an aircraft carrier…”
Norman’s tenure as the CEO of LIV Golf was a tumultuous one as the 20-time PGA Tour winner and former world No. 1 butted heads with numerous organizations, made outlandish claims about the league’s ascension and even had him showing up at major events with tickets from a secondary market.
