LIV Golf Arrives at Ground Zero’s Doorstep

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The LIV Golf Tour makes its latest stop this week at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, bringing all the drama that this Saudi Arabian-funded venture has fostered since its inception. However, this week’s tournament not only adds the controversial brand of our former President, but it’s all being held at the doorstep of New York City’s hallowed Ground Zero, inciting even larger protests from families of 9/11 victims. Alan Shipnuck, the reporter who has followed this league from the start, tells us what all this means for the present and future of golf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alan Shipnuck, I've been meaning to get you on this show for a while now, so thank you for doing it. Thanks for coming.
0:05.6	I'm happy beer.
0:07.1	So as we talk today, the live golf tour, the thing you know as well as anybody, the thing that you have been a character in the story of,
0:16.4	it is descending upon Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
0:20.7	Alan, this is a course that's about 40 miles west of where I am in New York City.
0:25.3	And it feels like for all of the controversy, for all of the ethical debates around this Saudi-backed golf upstart league, right?
0:36.1	It feels like this weekend in particular is going to be particularly consequential.
0:41.8	Why is that?
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:43.6	So I mean, it's no secret that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9-11 were Saudi Arabian.
0:50.1	The 9-11 families have become kind of this moral compass in this whole debate.
0:57.7	A protest is taking place.
0:59.1	The Donald Trump's golf course in New Jersey.
1:01.6	Families of 9-11 victims are outraged.
1:04.4	That is Bedminster Golf Course is hosting the Saudi-backed live golf tournament this weekend.
1:09.7	Obviously Saudi Arabia assassinated a journalist who's worked for the watch that opposed to as a resident of the United States just a few years ago.
1:19.2	I mean, Saudi Arabia is a bad actor on the world stage.
1:22.2	I don't think that's really in dispute.
1:24.9	And now they've come in with all this money and they're floating this entire live golf circuit.
1:30.1	And a lot of people are upset about it.
1:33.3	Some of the surviving 9-11 families have made a point to register their distaste.
1:37.6	They're calling this effort sport washing and they are deeply concerned that pro golfers like Phil Michelson, Dustin Johnson,
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