Trump's New Jersey golf course to host controversial Saudi-backed golf league [View all]
Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf course will host an event on the world tour of a new, Saudi-backed professional golf league, despite concerns over the country’s human rights record.
On 29 July, the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, will host a stop of the LIV Golf’s Invitation, a PGA Tour competitor backed with a majority stake from Saudi Arabia’s massive sovereign wealth fund.
The new league, which has other planned stops in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and England, hopes to lure away professionals from the PGA with the promise of $25m purses per event, as well as a reshuffled competition format with less holes and so-called “shotgun starts.”
LIV has generated controversy among players on the PGA, as top pros are declaring their allegiances to either the established or the upstart league.
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