Blood on the putting green

It’s official: The Saudis own golf. Tuesday’s bombshell announcement that the PGA Tour will merge with LIV Golf, Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar image-restoration project, is nothing less than the surrender of a storied American sports tradition to a regime whose human rights abuses are indisputable. The PGA’s famous green jacket is tainted red. The PGA, golf’s longtime preeminent professional league, and LIV, created in 2021 from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, have until this week been at each other’s throats in public and in court. LIV sought to overtake the PGA’s prominence by wa...