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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Doug Ferguson

R&A chief Martin Slumbers doesn't rule out Saudi funding for British Open

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The R&A is not ruling out taking money from Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund as prize money in golf keeps increasing to the point CEO Martin Slumbers thinks the sport will have to reassess its business model.

The R&A runs the British Open, where the prize fund of $16.5 million this year is slightly double more than it was 10 years ago. The Open still has the smallest purse of the four majors.

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