.ByronYork's Daily Memo: For over a year, professional golf has been caught in a civil war over money and politics. The cause has been the creation of a new tour, funded by the vastly wealthy Saudi Arabian govt, to challenge the dominance of the PGA Tour.
PROFESSIONAL GOLF'S POLITICAL MELTDOWN. For more than a year, professional golf has been engulfed in a civil war over money and politics. The cause has been the creation of a new tour, funded by the vastly wealthy government of Saudi Arabia, to challenge the dominance — some would say the monopoly — of the PGA Tour.
The charge is that LIV professionals are accepting"blood money" to play golf. Just google"blood money," and you'll see it used thousands of times in the golf debate. To add punch to the criticism, the families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — most of the hijackers were Saudis — got involved in the effort, adding their gravitas to the effort to shame golfers competing in LIV events.
Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! "Why does the PGA Tour have 23 sponsors ... doing $40-plus billion worth of business with Saudi Arabia?" LIV Golf chief Greg Norman asked last year."Why is it OK for the sponsors? Why is it OK ... that there's a Saudi sponsor, Aramco, the largest sponsor of women's golf in the world? Why is it OK for them? ... The hypocrisy in all this — it's so loud, it's deafening.
It's true. Raytheon is selling missiles to Saudi Arabia. Specifically, it is selling 300 Patriot missiles at a price of $3.05 billion. It should be noted that the U.S. State Department approved the Raytheon sale to the Saudis. The sale went through after Biden's fist-bump meeting with Salman. In other words, it was OK'd at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
There's a fundamental problem with moral crusades. It's hard to put a limit on them. Where do they stop? Can the Tour accept any partner that does even one dollar's worth of business with the Saudis? To maintain its purity, will the PGA Tour have to distance itself from many of the companies it has done business with for years?
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