Business | Golf and the Gulf

The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch-enemy

Saudi Arabia buys membership of golf’s most exclusive club

Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, Carlos Ortiz and Team Captain Sergio Garcia of Fireballs GC celebrate with champagne after their team win and Chacarra's individual win during Day Three of the LIV Golf Invitational.
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Many a business deal is sealed on the golf course. So it was on June 6th, when America’s PGA Tour and Europe’s DP World Tour, the biggest organising bodies in men’s golf, said they had agreed to merge with LIV Golf, a Saudi Arabian upstart. The merger, which will reportedly see LIV’s backers invest around $3bn in the combined entity, ends a costly split in the game and gives the Saudis membership of one of the most august clubs in sport.

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