Episode 306: The PGA's deal with Saudi Arabia and corruption in professional sport
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The Saudi Funding of Live Golf
The PGA has sold its soul. It's kind of a great remarkable story, but a very simple answer in the end because those dollar bills just stacked up to a level that meant they folded. The amount of money the Saudis put on the table to entice and break golf is,. is, is, is in the billions, individual golfers. Phil Mickelson, famous US golfer, I think for golf fans, it doesn't need an introduction, but one of the best ever players of the game took almost, if reportedly $200 million just as signing on for you. That's more than you'd earn in a, in a career as a golfer. You know
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