Opinion: The PGA-LIV Golf merger is a dark day for the sport

“Nothing like finding out through Twitter that we’re merging with a tour that we said we’d never do that with,” said Mackenzie Hughes, a Canadian player on the tour.

This week, the tour is in Toronto for the Canadian Open. Hopefully Mr. Hughes and other Canadian players will take a strong stand against what has happened. It isn’t their doing. Pure American capitalism is driving this deal, which was hailed by Donald Trump, whose golf courses will benefit nicely. PGA players were offered tens of millions of dollars to go over to the rebel tour but stayed loyal because they didn’t want to play for a league run by a regime with a record of human rights abuses, including restrictions on free speech and the rights of women. Just one example is the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which the CIA has

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