Norman puts aside differences with the PGA Tour, agrees to captain Presidents Cup

Greg Norman is letting bygones be bygones with the PGA Tour, agreeing this week to be captain of the International team at the Presidents Cup. Norman joins Fred Couples as the first captains who have competed in the matches.

Norman has butted heads with PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem for more than a decade over the World Golf Championships. He’s also challenged the tour over its finances.

The Presidents Cup will be held in October 2009 at Harding Park in San Francisco.

“I think what’s happened in the past is in the past,” Norman said. “If you sit on a board of any company, you don’t want to have a friendly board. You need to have some bit of contentious, open discussion because not everybody is going to think exactly the same way. Tim and I have an open discussion about certain situations with the game of golf, whether it’s personal, whether it’s business.”

Recently, Greg Norman has been busy in the Bahamas with his new Blue Shark Golf Club. Read about it at WorldGolf.com.