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Dan Wolken | USA Today

PGA Tour sold out to LIV Golf and the Saudis

Players practice on the driving range during a LIV Golf event last year. (Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

Frauds, all of them. But frauds now united in the only thing that actually matters to the world of professional golf: Making money. 

In the end, it didn’t actually matter to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan that the money came from a country, Saudi Arabia, that treats human rights like an inconvenience. The tradition and history of the PGA Tour, in fact, didn’t matter all that much to those who argued that LIV Golf was an unworthy, unserious rival whose guaranteed money and 54-hole events were mocking competition.

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