The Saudi Arabian Version of Golf Sound

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Live knew that they needed big names in order to get this tour off the ground. They went after some of PGA's biggest stars, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Kepka and Cam Smith. Tiger Woods already has a pretty comfortable bank account I assume. But there's several other reasons. The players who have chosen to go to live and to play there, I disagree with it.

The PGA Tour wanted nothing to do with a rival Saudi-funded golf tour, but like Silicon Valley and the White House, it couldn’t resist the Kingdom’s influence. A sports guy (Rick Maese of the Washington Post) and a foreign policy guy (Jonathan Guyer of Vox) explain.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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