They said it was about principles, but it was always about money.
Human rights, it turns out, are a bore, and an obstacle.
“Sportswashing,” as it is known, is powerful and effective.
That’s the message between the lines of the merger between the once venerable PGA Tour and what until Tuesday was its insurgent competition — LIV Golf, born just last year and fueled by billions from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment fund, which the oil-rich kingdom uses to gild its global image.
It reigns over the morals, values and traditions that the PGA Tour, now swaddled in rank hypocrisy, trumpeted during a seemingly fierce but apparently phony conflict that pitted the biggest names in golf against each other.
Persons:
LIV Golf
Organizations:
PGA Tour
Locations:
thrall, Saudi Arabia, Saudi