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    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special Report
      Business of Golf

      A truce between the PGA and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund looks far from secure. Plus: how to make the sport more accessible for women; a Columbia Business School professor who revolutionised the game’s analytics; off-course golf points way to the future

      Ruoning Yin of China kisses the trophy after winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      How PIF’s financial power bought a seat at the table

      A truce between the sport’s most powerful bodies and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund has been in the works for months but fears grow that the battle is far from over

      PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne and Chief Operating Officer of the PGA Tour Ron Price testify during a US Senate Committee
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      Asian Tour awaits any fallout from the golf war truce

      CEO admits he doesn’t know exactly ‘how and when’ the tournament will be involved in the new PGA Tour and LIV Golf merger

      Cho Minn Thant, Asian Tour CEO during the prize giving ceremony following Day Four of the International Series England at Slaley Hall
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Golf
      Saudi Arabia sought central role in professional golf

      PGA Tour officials tell US Senate their planned tie-up with LIV is best chance to preserve sport’s independence

      Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, speaks during a hearing in Washington into last month’s surprise agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi-funded LIV Golf
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      PGA Tour rushes to contain fallout from golf tie-up with Saudi fund

      Many players remain frustrated while deal faces scrutiny in Washington

      Montage of logos of PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s PIF and a golf player
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      News in-depthScotland
      ‘For money alone’: Scotland’s home of golf takes swing at Saudi Arabian ambitions

      St Andrews, where the ancient game is said to have begun, shows little love for the merger that gives Riyadh great sway over the professional sport

      Rory McIlroy plays at the British Open on The Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      The Big Read
      Saudi Arabia’s billions are shaking up golf. What next?

      This week’s deal is one of the most striking illustrations yet of the growing influence of the PIF — and raises speculation about where the firepower of $650bn fund will be aimed

      Montage image showing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Rory McIlroy, an F1 car, a football player, a cruise ship and the PIF Tower in Riyadh
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Golf
      Golf’s warring factions finally swing a peace deal

      Wall Street power brokers at heart of detente between US PGA Tour and Saudi-funded upstart LIV

      Rory McIlroy, Jay Monahan, Yasir al-Rumayyan and Brooks Koepka
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Golf
      McIlroy says PGA Tour-LIV deal will ultimately be good for golf

      Face of resistance to Saudi Arabia-backed venture says he still ‘hates’ rival tour after shock tie-up was announced

      Rory McIlroy at a press conference ahead of the RBC Canadian Open
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Saudi Arabia to spend billions on shock merger of PGA Tour and LIV Golf

      Deal resolves bitter dispute between established series and breakaway league that has divided men’s game

      PGA Tour and LIV Golf logos montage with player driving
    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Golf
      Saudi-backed LIV Golf to air on CW Network

      Breakaway tour had struggled to find a home on channels with existing commitments to PGA

    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      PGA can block golfers who joined Saudi-backed rival from playoffs, judge rules

      Players allege unfair ban after joining start-up circuit backed by Saudi sovereign wealth fund

      Golfer Talor Gooch at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey
    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Phil Mickelson leads golf stars in antitrust lawsuit against PGA Tour

      Case is the latest point of friction in dominant US tour’s battle against Saudi-backed upstart LIV

      Phil Mickelson at the LIV Golf Bedminster invitational last month
    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Golf
      US antitrust authorities probe PGA Tour over response to Saudi rival LIV

      Battle between elite golf circuit and new challenger has divided the sport

      Sean O’Hair at the Barbasol Championship tournament in Kentucky
    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Golf
      European Tour fines Saudi golf defectors £100,000 each in battle for game’s future

      UK golfer Lee Westwood and others punished as traditional European and US circuits align against new series

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Golf
      PGA Tour chief accuses breakaway LIV of trying ‘to buy game of golf’

      Prize money raised, but head admits he cannot compete in ‘arms race’ with Saudi cash as another star defects

      PGA Tour head Jay Monahan
    • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
      Sport
      Saudi Arabia’s $2bn swing at golf shakes up global game

      Kingdom’s oil riches fund breakaway league and spark allegations of sportswashing

    • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
      LexGolf
      LIV golf tour: above-par rewards come to the fore for veterans Premium content

      A tournament featuring pub quiz-style team names is novel enough; the prize money is something else

      Charl Schwartzel of South Africa tees off at the LIV Golf tournament
    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      Golf
      PGA Tour suspends 17 golfers for joining Saudi rival LIV

      Phil Mickelson among those competing in lucrative new tournament

      The inaugural LIV Golf Invitational
    • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
      Scoreboard
      Tiger lights up Masters amid Saudi golf threat Premium content

      Plus, England’s battle over a football regulator, Tom Brady’s latest business deal, and more.

    • Saturday, 26 February, 2022
      Scoreboard
      Inside Russia’s soft power political football Premium content

      Plus, how Phil Mickelson accidentally derailed Saudi Arabia’s global golf ambitions, the economics of sports streaming, and more

    • Saturday, 4 December, 2021
      Scoreboard
      Golf braces for a Saudi showdown Premium content

      Plus, Major League Baseball’s player lockout, Real Madrid’s last-ditch attempt to thwart CVC’s La Liga deal, and more.

    • Monday, 12 April, 2021
      Golf
      Matsuyama becomes first Japanese player to win the Masters

      Narrow victory after late drama at Augusta secures Japan’s first men’s golf major championship

    • Monday, 4 June, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Discovery strikes $2bn PGA deal for golf streaming service

      Agreement gives media group rights to all tour competitions globally outside the US

      Tiger Woods of the U.S. hits from the 7th fairway during practice for the 2018 Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, U.S. April 2, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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