PGA Tour Takes Swing at Players Paid by Saudi-Backed League
Top American golfers Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson are among the PGA Tour members who teed off in a Saudi-funded golf league called LIV.

Is Saudia Arabia the new China? As an economically significant foreign country with a questionable track record on human rights trying to insert itself into America’s commercial and cultural arena, the comparison may be valid. The latest battle involving lots of green is over golf, with PGA Tour seeing red after the decisions by some prominent professionals to switch allegiances to the Saudis.
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