PGA Tour be damned, the Greg Norman-led Saudi golf league is powering on.

One week after PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan dismissed the threat of the league, saying, “We’re moving on,’’ and a month removed from Rory McIlory declaring it “dead in the water,’’ Norman on Wednesday announced an eight-tournament series, including one of the events at Trump International in Bedminster, N.J. this summer.

The LIV Golf Invitational Series was launched on Wednesday with a “mission to modernize and supercharge the game of golf via expanded golf opportunities for fans and players alike,’’ according to Norman, who’s the face of the league as its CEO and league commissioner.

The series will begin in June and will feature an individual and team concept with players playing for more than $250 million in prize purses. Each event will consist of 48-player fields (12 four-man teams) playing three rounds with 54 holes and no cut, along with shotgun starts to ensure a faster pace of play.

The elephant-in-the-room question that has lingered for months as this concept has been speculated about is what players will be playing?

It’s a question that Norman didn’t have an answer for back in November nor did he on Wednesday as he revealed the launch of the league in a virtual meeting with a small group of reporters that included The Post.

Norman has taken some public relations hits of late with a large number of the world’s top players recently pledging their allegiance to the PGA Tour, which has, through Monahan, threatened to ban its players who play in any of the LIV golf events.

McIlroy, who has expressed the most vocal opposition to the Saudi money, was joined by the likes of Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, world No. 1 Jon Rahm along with others in publicly stating their intentions to remain with the PGA Tour.

Norman said letters were sent to more than 250 players around the world on Tuesday inviting them to play in the tournaments, but not requiring them to compete in all of them.

“Will they all come in the beginning? Heck no,” Norman said in the Wednesday interview. “We understand that. But they have to determine for themselves as independent contractors that they can play both and do both. This is 100 percent additive. There is nothing wrong with playing both tours. I encourage them to do that.’’

Norman said he’s reached out to Monahan in an effort to present this concept as something that can coexist with the PGA Tour, which requires its members play in at least 15 events a year, and those calls have gone unanswered.

Recent events, which included explosive comments by Phil Mickelson in what Mickelson said was a private conversation with writer Alan Shipnuck, along with the parade of top players publicly siding with the PGA Tour, have rattled LIV Golf.

Mickelson called the Saudis “scary motherf—-s,’’ denouncing their execution of Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi and their “horrible record on human rights.’’ He also said he was using his supposed involvement with the group as leverage against the PGA Tour to invoke financial change for players.

Mickelson has since announced he’s taking time away from the game and has not played in some two months, leaving many to speculate whether he’ll be back to play the Masters in three weeks.

Norman said on Wednesday he has not spoken to Mickelson since those comments were published but he welcomed him to play in the LIV Golf events.

“We all make mistakes,’’ Norman said. “We all screw up and say stupid things we didn’t want to say. As soon as he gets things sorted out, we will welcome him whenever he wants to come back. It’s up to him. It’s on his time schedule. Phil will be back. He’s been great for the game of golf.’’

Other players linked to the league who have not come out and sided with the PGA Tour include Adam Scott, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter. Jason Kokrak, a middle-of-the-road PGA Tour pro, has also expressed interest.

A question without an answer at the moment is what happens if a player simply wants to compete in a few of the LIV Golf Invitational events and wasn’t making a choice between that and the PGA Tour?

Here’s an interesting dynamic that could come out of this: If LIV Golf has a difficult time filling its 48-player fields with enough so-called big names, could it have a little-known Korn Ferry or Asian Tour player go on a heater and cashing a winner’s check larger than those on the PGA Tour?

The Saudi money dwarfs even the PGA Tour purses that have been boosted recently as an answer to the Saudi threat. To put it in perspective, The Players Championship last week had a $20 million purse, the largest in professional golf history, with winner Cam Smith taking some a record $3.6 million.

Each of the first seven LIV Golf Investment Series events will have $25 million purses (divided among 48 players, which means much more per player) with the season-ending individual championship being worth another $30 million and the team championship worth $50 million divided among four players.

The first seven events will award $20 million for the individual competition and $5 million split among the top three teams.

PGA Tour rules state that its players much seek releases to play in tournaments that conflict with its events. It, too, allows players to play in three events outside of the PGA Tour schedule without seeking a waiver for permission to do so.

The LIV Golf group has strategically placed its events in weeks that don’t compete with any of the PGA Tour’s more popular events that usually attract stout fields. For example, the first event is the same week as the RBC Canadian Open, the second during the week of the John Deere Classic and the third during the week of the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

“We have done our best to create a schedule that allows players to play elsewhere, while still participating in our events,’’ Norman said.

Another issue in question is where these tournaments will land on TV. The league has yet to announce a television partner, though Sean Bratches, a former Formula 1 and ESPN executive who heads up LIV’s television plans, said, “We’ve been in the marketplace for the past three or four months talking to entities around the globe about our concept, our vision, and what we plan to do around the game of golf. The reception has been pretty favorable and the dialogue is fluid.’’

Norman acknowledged that complications that have arisen with the PGA Tour’s aggressive stance, such as strong-arming its players, and said, “We had to react.’’

“The PGA Tour’s reaction to where we were positioned at that given time was very strong,” Norman said. “They put down a tree on our road, another obstacle to put in our way. But I can tell you that no matter what obstacle they’ve put, then we work our way around it. We are going to give [players] opportunities to play where they want to play and choose. We are not going away. We are here for the long haul.’’