I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

And when I find my ball in a bright egg.

Bright egg.

The dreaded bright egg.

Bright egg.

Bright egg.

Bright egg.

Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.

Hello, and welcome to the bright egg podcast. My name is Garrett Morrison, and today I'm talking to Brendan Quinn of the athletic about what Saudi Arabia really wants out of live golf.

So this week, the Saudi-backed live golf invitational series is holding its third-ever tournament, which will take place about an hour outside New York City at Trump Bedminster.

Let me say that again. A golf league funded by Saudi Arabia is visiting a course owned by Donald Trump.

There's so much about that sentence that is way above my pay grade.

And I don't think I'm alone in this feeling.

Over the past couple of years, and with increasing intensity in recent months,

golf media members have had to come to grips with a lot of complex topics.

We've had to take crash courses, basically in sports washing, international oil politics, and the history of the Saudi Arabian government.

I couldn't have imagined that these would be the kinds of things I'd be discussing when I joined the fried egg three years ago.

And to say the least, I still have a lot to learn about what live means to the golf world.

That's why I really appreciated an article by Brendan Quinn that appeared yesterday in the athletic.

The article is called live golf and the king-sized ambition behind the game on the brink.

And it basically takes a big step back and calls on the expertise of some people who have been studying Saudi Arabia for decades.

And the result, I think, is a much clearer picture of where live comes from, how it fits into Saudi Arabia's plans for the future.

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