Live Golf: A Different Game

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Live Golf was a Saudi funded startup that really wanted to change the game and give both players and fans another option. Live bills itself is kind of a team event, so there's individual winner at each tournament, but there's also a team winner. After three days of scintillating golf in Miami, you're in Norgirl Live Golf Team Champions. Even the player who finishes last will pocket $120,000.

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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