The PGA Tour’s Tiger Woods and LIV Golf’s Greg Norman are two of golf’s greatest ever players, and both were coached by the Butch Harmon during their periods of dominanceTiger Woods has been compared to Greg NormanTiger Woods has been compared to Greg NormanTiger Woods and Greg Norman have one key similarity that made them dominant world No. 1 golfers, according to their former coach Butch Harmon.Both Woods and Norman announced themselves as two of the world’s best golfers during their respective periods at the top of the world rankings. Whilst Woods’ dominance is the more well-documented, Norman too enjoyed plenty of success prior to his role as LIV Golf CEO.There is no doubt Woods and Norman have differing views when it comes to the off-course politics between the PGA Tour and LIV setup, but when comes to competing, legendary instructor Harmon revealed they are not so different.LIV Golf finally complete 2024 schedule as venue for £40 million Team Championship announcedREAD MORE: Bryson DeChambeau issues PGA Tour timely reminder amid LIV Golf merger farceHaving worked with both, Harmon revealed that one aspect that helped Woods and Norman reach and then stay at the top of professional golf is their work ethic. “One thing I will tell you about the best players in the world,” the 80-year-old coach told On The Road with Iona.”I had two of them I took to No. 1 who were there for a long time. Greg Norman and Tiger Woods. They outworked everybody, they worked harder than everybody. That is because they wanted to stay there.” Now known for his work with LIV, Norman enjoyed quite the playing career before his off-course role.The 69-year-old was golf’s ultimate global player, winning 88 times around the world. Most notably, he won 20 times whilst competing on the PGA Tour, and banked 14 titles whilst playing on the DP World Tour – then the European Tour. He had plenty of success in his native Australasia too.
