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I predict a lot of PGA golfers who’d held out from joining LIV will now reconsider (assuming LIV continues to maintain their branding and product). If I had more skin in the game as a fan, I might have stronger opinions on the deal. (I’m the most casual of casual golf fans).
There’s nothing to reconsider. The two are merging into one organization.
I guess I figured there could still be somewhat separate financing and I’m not sure we have a clear picture on the business structure yet. If they’re still ran as distinct entities within the same organization, I could see some golfers not wanting to take Saudi money 🤷
Unfortunately I think it would be a distinction without a difference at this point. LIV/Saudi is buying into a combined org overseen by a single board. From what I’ve read, the PGA will have more seats, but the chair will be Saudi.
the degree of sportswashing that Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent the other theocratic oil petrostates) has pulled off in the past few years really, to me, demonstrates how… i dunno… far off the mark (for lack of a better wording) the moral panic about China’s influence in the global economy is generally? in a lot of ways these governments are worse, but there’s been generously 1/1000th the outrage about how impossible they’ve made it for someone to actually divest from things they own. often it falls to fans and individuals to drum up outrage–and like, that’s not gonna work here, lol. they don’t care.
