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How Saudi Arabia is buying up the sport of golf

The Story

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The PGA Tour's Legal Battle With Saudi Arabia

The world of golf is effectively very acrimoniously split. The players are split, the tournaments are split and all of this ends up in court. Live launched its lawsuit against the PGA Tour - which threatened to run for four or five years but ended up costing tens of millions. In an attempt to combat the threat of live golf, the Pga Tour had to up its price money. And also to get the European Tour on its side, the P GA Tour basically got in touch with the European Tour and said, let's form a strategic alliance. They may have committed well over another hundred million in increased price money. Now they've got this legal case that's absolutely burning money

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