Byron York in dailyherald: Professional golf's political meltdown
For more than a year, professional golf has been engulfed in a civil war over money and politics. The cause has been the creation of a new tour, funded by the vastly wealthy government of Saudi Arabia, to challenge the dominance -- some would say the monopoly -- of the PGA Tour.
The charge is that LIV professionals are accepting"blood money" to play golf. To add punch to the criticism, the families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- most of the hijackers were Saudis -- got involved, adding their gravitas to the effort to shame golfers competing in LIV events. by signing up you agree to our terms of service The fact is, the Saudis are a big, rich, influential nation to which many countries, including the United States, have deep ties. To cite one example, while the LIV debate was tearing golf apart last year, President Joe Biden was photographed fist-bumping his good buddy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The president of the United States certainly did not treat the Saudi leader as an outcast.
Now, if it is possible, the PGA Tour has turned the volume of hypocrisy up a bit more. In this way: The Tour runs a tournament known as the Byron Nelson Championship, held every year in Dallas. It has long been sponsored by AT&T. Recently AT&T decided to end its sponsorship of the Byron Nelson event, meaning the PGA Tour would have to find a new sponsor.
But it is not OK with the PGA Tour. Monahan knew that if the Tour entered into a sponsorship with a company that had just made a huge deal with Saudi Arabia, the Tour would look like hypocrites. Somebody might even talk about blood money.
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