Greg Norman gives his opinion on Donald Trump after sharing the golf course with him

Greg Norman and Donald Trump have a fair amount in common given their love of golf and the fact that they are both incredibly polarising figures.

Trump has rarely been out of the spotlight, particularly in the last decade. He has started his second term as President of the United States this year after winning the 2024 election.

Few politicians attract a stronger response than Trump, regardless of where on the political spectrum you fall. In fact, the 79-year-old is potentially the most divisive figure on the planet full stop.

Greg Norman issues his verdict on Donald Trump

Similarly, golf fans are split when it comes to Greg Norman.

The Australian was one of the greatest golfers of his generation. He was extremely charismatic and should have won a lot more than two major titles.

However, Norman’s legacy was undoubtedly tainted by the part he played in helping LIV Golf get off the ground.

It is certainly fair to say that LIV needed someone with Norman’s attitude to upset the apple cart. And that role did see him lose plenty of friends.

So it makes sense that Norman has told Michael Clarke on the Beyond23 Cricket Podcast how impressed he has been by a President who has – like it or not – transformed American politics.

“I am lucky enough to know the guy. I have been fortunate enough to play golf with quite a few of them [Presidents], but when you are the President of the United States you are the leader of the free world.
Your responsibility and accountability is basically to the world. Where DT is different is that he wants to make America right first,” he said.

“He is taking the business philosophy that very few Presidents have ever had into the White House to fix America first but still be the leader of the free world.

“He has kind of flipped it. And because I have been around him enough and seen enough of him, I am going ‘My God, he has got stars and stripes running through his veins stronger than any other President’. They all do. But at the end of the day, his execution of what he wants to do for America and for the outcome for America and the American people, God bless him for doing that.

“He is not going to get everything but my gosh, his energy and capacity and tenacity to get in there and do it. It makes you sit back and you think about all the other leaders of the free world and everybody when you get into a responsible role, you have to be accountable for every decision you make.

“You go okay, is that for the betterment of the country and the citizens of that country? You walk away from it, and he is not even in his first year and you go he has done some pretty good stuff.”

What Donald Trump thought of the work Greg Norman did on LIV Golf

While Norman came in for a lot of criticism during his time at LIV Golf, he deserves credit for the fact that the league does now have a seat at the game’s top table.

They are still some way off rivalling the PGA Tour. But they are likely to have at least some say in any significant changes to the game’s landscape in the coming years.

Trump told Norman he was doing a ‘great’ job in 2022, according to TIME magazine – though that was during an event at the President’s own Bedminster course.

It seems that the feeling is very much mutual.