What Saudi Arabia Really Wants Out of LIV Golf

Published: July 28, 2022, 8:45 p.m.

This week, the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational series is holding its third-ever tournament, LIV Bedminster, at a golf course owned by former president Donald Trump. Now there\u2019s a sentence that our 2015 selves\u2014even our 2020 selves\u2014couldn\u2019t have imagined writing. But here we are, and we need to come to grips with some complex topics. That\u2019s why Brendan Quinn\u2019s article \u201cLIV Golf and the king-sized ambition behind a game on the bring,\u201d published yesterday in The Athletic, is so valuable. It calls on the expertise of those who have been studying Saudi Arabia and its royal family for decades, and presents a clear, detailed picture of where LIV Golf came from, how it\u2019s financed, and how it fits into the Saudi government\u2019s plans for the future. Brendan discusses all of this and more with Garrett Morrison in this episode.