Saudi money triggers golf wars
Professional golf is going through the revolution that European football ended a year ago: the creation of a parallel, iconoclastic and ultra-lucrative circuit. Why ?
In London, the first winner of the LIV Golf circuit, the South African Charl Schwartzel pocketed the biggest check in the history of golf: 4.75 million dollars.
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“If Vladimir Putin organized a tournament, would you play it?” Sometimes the immensity of the malaise can be summed up in a few words. It’s been a month since professional golf imploded under the effect of a Saudi offensive called LIV Golf. A parallel circuit of eight stages which has the triple presumption of breaking the historical format of the competitions, challenging the omnipotent PGA Tour and, above all, pouring in crazy sums of money to canvass the best players in the world.