Sop, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news,

and there's a lot of news to talk about today, so let's just jump into it.

Starting with, we've got massive breaking business news today. The PGA tour and its major

rival Liv Golf just announced a merger today. And a key thing, even if you don't care about

golf, this is a major deal that you need to know about. Because not only did these two have an all-out civil war in the industry,

it's brought up serious questions about sports and human rights.

So let's get into specifics without getting caught up in the weeds.

The PGA tour organizes the top golfers into paid tournaments, usually across the United States.

And Liv Golf is a golf league, but they're backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund,

or the PIF, which notably is controlled by the crown prince Muhammad Bonesaw. And those two organizations have been at each other's throats for months.

Live, with their deep Saudi-backed pockets, have been luring players away from the PGA tour with hefty paychecks.

And with that, you're the PGA banning players who left to join Live now, very key thing with this merger, they've agreed to drop all of the litigation.

But again, the real controversy here goes back to LiveGolf Saudi backing. Because in the past,

and I'm talking recent past, human rights advocates and the PGA tour themselves claimed that the

Saudis were just trying to improve their international reputation by throwing wands of cash in popular sports, something many call sports washing. With just a year ago, the PGA commissioner calling the Live Golf Organization, quote,

a foreign monarchy that is spending billions of dollars in an attempt to buy the game of golf.

Additionally, the big names in golf they were signing on with Liv were questioned about the moral

implications of their choice to support a league, backed by a country with such a terrible human rights

track record. And seemingly, the moral questions of what's right and wrong led to golf giants like Tiger Woods reportedly turning

down lib contracts worth between $700 and $800 million. I mean, at one point, you even had the

commissioner of the PGA tour on fucking TV talking about 9-11 families speaking out.

Expressing their outrage towards the golfers for participating in the new league and accusing

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