Boy, it sure is a good thing LIV Golf is a “force for change and good.”
If it wasn’t, women in a Saudi Arabian orphanage could be chased down and beaten by security and police. Oh, wait. A video of that very thing happening went viral two weeks ago.
Well, if LIV wasn’t around, there’d be nothing to stop Saudi Arabia’s leaders from throwing a women’s rights activist in prison for more than three decades for tweeting her support for reforms. Shoot. That happened last month.
OK, but if LIV wasn’t here to inspire all this warm and fuzzy goodness, Saudi Arabia might go back on its promise to curtail use of the death penalty. What’s that? The kingdom executed almost twice as many people from January to June as it did all of last year? Never mind that, then.
This idea that players moving to LIV was anything but a money grab, and a big one at that, was always a farce. But as LIV begins the second half of its inaugural “season” – can you really call eight events a season? – on Friday, it has become more and more obvious just how morally bankrupt the whole charade is.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has styled himself as a progressive. In reality, he’s a murderous dictator who won’t tolerate dissent, and he’s using LIV Golf to try and sportswash his atrocities.
Allowing women to drive, claiming he wants to modernize the kingdom, bankrolling a breakaway golf tour – they’re all meant to distract from what he does to those who don’t toe his line. And Phil Mickelson, Cam Smith, Dustin Johnson and the rest are willing to play his stooges so long as those seven-figure checks keep clearing.
“Golf is a force for good,” Bryson DeChambeau said in June. “As time goes on, hopefully people will…
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