Opinion: Golf’s big merger shows everything has a price – including our morals

’s leadership jump into bed with people it had labelled immoral and beyond contempt? The Saudis were serial human-rights abusers who were known to take out their frustration on people they didn’t like by whipping out bone saws and dismembering them – journalist Jamal Khashoggi among them.

Cathal Kelly: Reaction against LIV, PGA Tour merger suggests principle can be found elsewhere in sport. It can’t “I agree that this is good for the game of golf,” he said, sending jaws plummeting to the floor around the world.If there was any thought that the guardians of the game would fight back against the idea of a corrupt Saudi regime taking control of the world of professional golf, Mr. Nicklaus quickly put that notion to rest. So did Rory McIlroy, who for months had effectively been the tour spokesman against LIV and everything it stood for.

The Saudis are going to fund this new enterprise to the tune of multiple billions. This is important, as the PGA was apparently beginning to face a cash crunch, according to, and it was using reserve funds to, in part, respond to the LIV threat by hiking purse sizes. Now it doesn’t have to worry about that because money is no object.

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