Saudi Arabia: The Golf State?
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Golf as we know it has just been sold, kind of wholesale, to Saudi Arabia.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Emily has insisted upon this topic today. |
| 0:15.2 | She's come in in plus fours and she wants to talk golf. |
| 0:19.3 | Well, maybe not golf directly, |
| 0:21.2 | but the influence of Saudi Arabia on golf. |
| 0:25.5 | Let us hear from the commissioner of the PGA, |
| 0:29.4 | so the head of the Professional Golf Association, |
| 0:32.9 | a year or so ago, |
| 0:35.0 | talking about how the Saudis wanted to upend and destroy golf. |
| 0:40.3 | I ask, how is this good for the game that we love? |
| 0:45.3 | As it relates to the families of 9-11, I have two families that are close to me, the lost loved ones. |
| 0:50.3 | And so my heart goes out to them. And I would ask, you know, any player that has left |
| 0:58.2 | or any player that would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member |
| 1:04.8 | of the PGA tour? So Jay Monaghan's heart went out to the families of 9-11 a year ago. |
| 1:12.2 | It seems that it quickly came home because just yesterday we had a pretty whiplash turnaround from Jay Monaghan |
| 1:21.5 | once Saudi had decided it would actually buy the whole PGA. |
| 1:26.4 | It's a historical day for the PGA tour and the game of golf, |
| 1:31.3 | and it's a historical day for the PIF and the DP World Tour. |
| 1:35.3 | What we're talking about today is coming together to unify the game of golf |
| 1:40.3 | and to do so under one umbrella and to take it to new heights. |
| 1:45.5 | So now we're unifying the name of golf and the game of golf. |
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