Tom Watson is the latest to want answers on the PGA Tour’s deal with Saudi backers of LIV
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Tom Watson is the latest to want answers on the PGA Tour’s deal with Saudi backers of LIV

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Eight-time major champion Tom Watson wants answers on the PGA Tour’s new business partnership with Saudi backers of LIV Golf, asking in a letter Monday to Commissioner Jay Monahan if the deal was the only way to solve the tour’s financial hardship. That was one of several questions posed by Watson in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press and was sent to Monahan, the PGA Tour board and “my fellow players.” He said the questions were “compounded by the hypocrisy in disregarding the moral issue.” On the day after Wyndham Clark became the latest major champion by winning the U.S. Open, focus shifted back to an issue that has consumed golf for the last three years. It took a stunning turn June 6 when the PGA Tour announced it had joined with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund and the European tour to put commercial businesses under one roof. The agreement said the new company’s board would have majority representation appointed by the PGA Tour, the person said.

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