The Saudi Golf League and the US-Based PGA Tour Have Partnered Up

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The PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIP Golf Tour have announced a landmark agreement to unify their sport on a global basis. How do we go from a civil war to the news last week that these two entities would be partnering up? A lot of this stuff happened behind closed doors and total secrecy. But what happened over the course of a year, lived golf sued the PGA Tour for antitrust violations.

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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