The secretive $700 billion investment fund has set its sights on tourism, job creation, private equity and, now, golf.
Regulators were scrutinizing the PGA Tour even before its merger with its Saudi-funded competitor.
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McIlroy, however, reiterated his lingering opposition to LIV Golf, saying: “I hate LIV. Like, I hope it goes away.”
The deal to merge LIV Golf with the PGA Tour is a big win for the oil-rich kingdom, headlining a banner week that also includes a visit from the American secretary of state.
An agreement to merge LIV Golf with the PGA Tour is the latest step in the kingdom’s push to become a global force beyond oil.
A professional golf merger is a victory for Saudi Arabia and another sign that money can overwhelm almost any other force in sports.
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The announced deal to dramatically change golf is far from complete.
The PGA Tour’s merger with LIV is the perfect union of the tour’s lack of principle and LIV’s paucity of character.
In a stunning announcement, the tour, along with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said the rivals had agreed to create a “new, collectively owned, for-profit entity.”
The new alliance between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is the latest example of how the former president’s relationship with Saudi Arabia has yielded gains, and criticism, for both.
Also, a victory for the Saudi-backed golf tour.
In a stunning announcement, the tour, along with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said the rivals had agreed to create a “new, collectively owned, for-profit entity.”
Zhang’s career is likely to become a case study in athletic development, long-range planning and skillful marketing, now that college athletes are allowed to make money.
Whether LIV can outrun Trump’s shadow, and whether it even wants to, could do much to shape how the league is perceived in the years ahead, particularly in the United States.
The Indy 500 and Monaco Grand Prix will excite racing fans, while European soccer clubs will face their big moments.
Block, a club pro from Arroyo Trabuco, shot par in each of the first three rounds and on Sunday was paired with Rory McIlroy. He thought it couldn’t get better. Then he got a hole in one.
Koepka claimed his fifth major championship when he outlasted a swarm of stars on Sunday at Oak Hill Country Club near Rochester, N.Y.
Over 40 years, Dr. John R. Williams nurtured thousands of acorns, including some from Sherwood Forest and George Washington’s estate, into towering oak trees. His obsession had a singular goal: Transform the grounds of this year’s P.G.A. Champions...
Driving rain on Saturday at the P.G.A. Championship forced some golfers to buck the usual country club sartorial norms in order to keep the water out of their eyes.
After his second consecutive four-under-par 66, the LIV golfer Koepka will be in the final pairing on Sunday at Oak Hill Country Club.
Few professional sports scrutinize weather forecasts like golf. The P.G.A. Championship, played in meteorologically challenging western New York, has been a test.
Jordan Spieth, who needs a victory at Oak Hill to complete the career Grand Slam, and Justin Thomas, who won last year’s tournament, just made the cut at five over.
It’s only one round, but DeChambeau, the once hard-swinging golfer who has struggled of late, shot a four-under-par 66 at Oak Hill Country Club.
Birdies were at a premium for many of the 156 golfers vying for the Wanamaker Trophy at Oak Hill Country Club during the first round of the major tournament on Thursday.
New data shows that 2023 is shaping up to be the biggest year for Chapter 11 filings in more than a decade.
The dispute in a Florida court focused on whether Erica Herman’s claims against the golf star could be heard publicly or only through arbitration.
The Justice Department met with PGA Tour lawyers this week, but a timeline for the completion of its review is unclear.
The course near Rochester, N.Y., will host the P.G.A. Championship for the first time in a decade. In the interim, a restoration took place to bring the course back toward Donald J. Ross’s original design.
Emerging on the national scene at 13, she went on to win 26 pro tournaments, including the 1956 L.P.G.A. Championship. She and 12 other women started the league.
Steven Alker’s golf career was largely unremarkable. Then he joined the senior circuit and won so big that he’ll play his debut P.G.A. Championship.
Rory McIlroy has had a stretch to forget. At this week’s P.G.A. Championship, he is looking to fix small troubles in his swing.
The 18-time major winner talked with The Times near the 60th anniversary of his first P.G.A. Championship victory. The event is returning to Oak Hill, where Nicklaus earned his last P.G.A. title.
The defending champion comes to Oak Hill without finishing first in any of the 20 events he has entered since claiming his second career major victory in 2022.
Premier League soccer teams will fight to avoid relegation, while the X.F.L. will crown a champion.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
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