Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf Deal Is a Triumph That Transcends Sports

Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf Deal Is a Triumph That Transcends Sports

When a Saudi-backed upstart golf league began recruiting high-profile players from the top U.S. circuit, the American tour’s commissioner lamented a “foreign monarchy that is spending billions of dollars in an attempt to buy the game of golf.”The commissioner, Jay Monahan, who heads the PGA Tour, sniped at players who …

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The PGA Tour and LIV Golf Merger, Explained

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf Merger, Explained

The PGA Tour, the world’s pre-eminent professional golf league, and LIV Golf, a Saudi-funded upstart whose emergence over the past year and a half has cleaved the sport in two, have agreed to join forces.The pact is complicated and incomplete, and numerous golfers hate it. They are directing their wrath …

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PGA Tour and LIV Golf Agree to Deal to End Fight Over Sport

PGA Tour and LIV Golf Agree to Deal to End Fight Over Sport

The PGA Tour, the dominant force in men’s professional golf for generations, and LIV Golf, which made its debut just last year and is backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in Saudi money, will together form an industry powerhouse that is expected to transform the sport, executives announced Tuesday.The …

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