An agreement to merge LIV Golf with the PGA Tour is the latest step in the kingdom’s push to become a global force beyond oil.
Category: Saudi Arabia
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Russia and Saudi Arabia’s Oil Partnership Shows Strain
Analysts said the countries’ mutual need to keep energy prices high would help them maintain close ties, despite signs that Moscow has undercut previous deals.
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Analysis: LIV Golf-PGA Tour Merger Is About Profit Above All
The PGA Tour’s merger with LIV is the perfect union of the tour’s lack of principle and LIV’s paucity of character.
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PGA Tour and LIV Golf Agree to Deal to End Fight Over Sport
In a stunning announcement, the tour, along with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said the rivals had agreed to create a “new, collectively owned, for-profit entity.”
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Through Ties to Saudis, Golf Deal Promises Benefits to Trump
The new alliance between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is the latest example of how the former president’s relationship with Saudi Arabia has yielded gains, and criticism, for both.
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PGA Tour and LIV Golf Will Merge, Ending Battle to Control the Sport
In a stunning announcement, the tour, along with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said the rivals had agreed to create a “new, collectively owned, for-profit entity.”
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Saudi Arabia Says It Will Cut Production to Stem a Slide in Oil Prices
OPEC Plus, the group of major oil producers, said it would continue its recent cuts in output, but Saudi Arabia said it would cut further for at least a month.
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Saudi Soccer League Creates Huge Fund to Sign Global Stars
A coordinated effort financed by the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund is offering huge paydays to some of the sport’s biggest stars if they join Saudi Arabia’s best teams.
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OPEC Plus May Consider Cuts in Oil Production
The group of major oil producers and Russia will meet this weekend to discuss a swoon in oil prices.
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LIV Golf Wants to Talk About Sports. Donald Trump Still Looms.
Whether LIV can outrun Trump’s shadow, and whether it even wants to, could do much to shape how the league is perceived in the years ahead, particularly in the United States.
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Falling Oil Prices Cause Saudi Aramco’s Profit to Slip 19 Percent
But at nearly $32 billion, the oil giant’s quarterly earnings still far exceeded those of Western rivals, and it announced an increase in dividend payments.
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A New Twist for the Tradition-Bound Masters: The LIV Golf Era
LIV, Saudi Arabia’s breakaway league, split men’s professional golf. Now, the drama is coming to one of the sport’s most hallowed stages.