How Saudi Arabia took over professional golf

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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After months of bitter divisions in the world of professional golf, a major deal has resulted in victory for Saudi Arabia and its bid to influence the future of the sport. Ewan Murray reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:08.8	Today, House Saudi Arabia bought professional golf.
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1:31.6	Should even get a bit of run down here, down the slope, just a little.
1:35.4	We're on the eve of Golf's US Open. And as far as professional sports go,
1:42.0	golf is pretty plasit, slow moving. Little left, a little tight and
1:51.6	the whole thing around in the rocks. But for the past few years, this manicured game
1:57.0	has been fighting a dirty wall. With the specter of arrival, golf tour, threatening to tear the
2:03.6	game apart, still looming, and the finger pointing and mud slinging from both sides only intensify.
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