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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Esther Addley

Friday briefing: The next phase of Saudi Arabia’s ‘sportswashing’ project? Buying a whole game

Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.
Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Andrew Redington/WME IMG/Getty Images

Good morning. First up, some breaking news: Donald Trump has been charged over his retention of national security documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them. Prosecutors have summoned the former president to surrender himself to authorities in Miami next Tuesday. The charges against Trump relate to alleged violations of the Espionage Act after classified documents were found at his Mar-a-Lago resort. More on that in the headlines … now on with our (somewhat fitting given the above) deep-dive topic for today.

Some people find golf gripping. Others struggle to see the appeal of hitting a small ball as far as you can, and then walking a long way after it. And then there are some who find golf so appealing that they will spend many billions of dollars to own it outright.

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