“Worth more than $500 Billion”: PGA Tour files motion to compel against Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf financiers

“Worth more than $500 Billion”: PGA Tour files motion to compel against Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf financiers

LIV Golf vs. PGA Tour

The war between PGA Tour and LIV golf has been never-ending ever since the Saudi-backed rebel league’s inception. It has been levelled time-and-again that Saudi Arabia is using LIV as a distraction to cover its alleged multiple crimes on humanity.

Whether that is true or not is a different concern but now PGA has moved another motion to compel against Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan, governor of the fund that finances LIV Golf. The motion to compel is to look into alleged irregularities in the financing of the fund.

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Al-Rumayyan is also the chairman of English Premier League club Newcastle United and one of the top ten companies in the world by market value alongside the likes of Amazon, Google and Apple, Saudi Aramco.

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Drama between the PGA and LIV is expected to continue to escalate, especially because LIV golf has also filed an antitrust lawsuit against PGA, the trial of which is to scheduled as ahead as January of 2024.

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PGA Tour’s ratings recently dropped 60 percent compared to last year while LIV Golf YouTube viewership continues to grow

LIV Golf Series vs PGA Tour
LIV Golf Series vs PGA Tour

Ratings for PGA Tour’s recent Sanderson Farms event might be bad news for the organizers as reports suggest that figures were down 60 percent compared to last year. A Twitter user going by the name ‘Golf Fan’ said this means that PGA currently doesn’t figure even in the top 150 shows in US alone.

Compared to PGA, LIV Golf ratings on YouTube are up as ever with at least 115,000 average real-time views each time an event is live streamed. Although LIV doesn’t currently have a TV deal in the US, Fox is already said to have contacted them for negotiations.

Meanwhile, PGA Tour is set to implement a new rule from 2023 with commissioner Jay Monahan promising to provide $500,000 to all golfers who hold the PGA Tour card. This sum is not a salary, nor is it part of prize money. On the contrary, it will be simple base pay — meaning that it is pledged.

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