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I predict a lot of PGA golfers who'd held out from joining LIV will now reconsider (assuming LIV continues to maintain their branding and product). If I had more skin in the game as a fan, I might have stronger opinions on the deal. (I'm the most casual of casual golf fans).
There's nothing to reconsider. The two are merging into one organization.
I guess I figured there could still be somewhat separate financing and I'm not sure we have a clear picture on the business structure yet. If they're still ran as distinct entities within the same organization, I could see some golfers not wanting to take Saudi money 🤷
the degree of sportswashing that Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent the other theocratic oil petrostates) has pulled off in the past few years really, to me, demonstrates how... i dunno... far off the mark (for lack of a better wording) the moral panic about China's influence in the global economy is generally? in a lot of ways these governments are worse, but there's been generously 1/1000th the outrage about how impossible they've made it for someone to actually divest from things they own. often it falls to fans and individuals to drum up outrage--and like, that's not gonna work here, lol. they don't care.