2023-06-12 17:44:44
An investigation was opened Monday in the United States Congress into the surprise merger of the North American PGA Golf Tour with the Saudi-backed LIV.
The agreement unveiled on Tuesday and on which very few details have emerged, raises “serious questions” about the role the Saudi government may have played, said the powerful senator Richard Blumenthal.
Denouncing Ryad’s “very worrying” record in terms of human rights, the elected official at the head of this investigation is asking the circuits for a series of documents on this agreement, to be provided by June 26.
The merger of PGA Tour and Europe’s DP World Tour with LIV Golf has taken the golfing world by surprise, with the tours embroiled in bitter legal battles.
Launched in October 2021, the LIV has attracted some of the best golfers in the world, former world No. 1 and several times crowned in Grand Slams, from Dustin Johnson to Brooks Koepka who has just won the PGA Championship.
The announcement of this merger also came during a week marked by a new boost to Saudi Arabia’s sporting ambitions, with the announcement of the signing of French striker Karim Benzema to Al-Ittihad. , Ballon d’Or 2022, for an amount estimated at several hundred million euros over three years.
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