PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne has been slammed for his "tone deaf" defence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf after claiming that the people he's dealing with "had nothing to do with" 9/11.
Dunne, the man who this week brokered a controversial deal between the PGA and LIV Golf, defended his decision by insisting that his new partners have no connection to the devastating attacks on the United States which took place on on September 11, 2001. "If someone can find someone that unequivocally was involved with it, I'll kill them myself," Dunne told Golf Channel.
His comments and the merger itself have been met with fury by those whose lives were ravaged by the act of terror, which Saudi-born Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for. An attorney representing cancer victims from the attacks - which Saudi Arabia denies any official involvement in - says that Dunne's defence is "an insult to the families of those who died on 9/11."
