LIV Golf-PGA Tour merger reignites not-so-clean debate over sportswashing

There have been other recent headlines out of Saudi Arabia that had nothing to do with golf. That they caused little uproar is a sign of how intertwined and unremarkable Saudi business interests in sports, and in America, have become over the decades. The announcement Tuesday that LIV Golf, a Saudi-backed organization implicated by its critics for the sin of sportswashing, had certainly outstripped news that to to Saudi Arabia’s domestic... + full article