Pat Perez and Brooks Koepka have played down Saudi Arabia's involvement in the breakaway LIV Golf Invitational Series when quizzed about the state's appalling human rights record.
LIV - which has former World No.1 Greg Norman as its CEO - is financed by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, which is controlled by the state's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. The series has been widely condemned as an attempt at sportswashing, but Perez and Koepka sidestepped questions about Saudi involvement when speaking to reporters ahead of LIV's second event in Portland.
"I don't have any concerns," Perez said when questioned on Saudi Arabia's human rights record. "I'm playing golf.
