PGA says screw human rights, merges with Saudi golf group

In what can only be described as a huge win for the Saudi Arabian monarchy that has so desperately tried to paper over human rights abuses including the assassination of critics, the PGA Tour, the European DP World Tour, and Saudi-owned LIV Golf have announced that they will be merging into a single golf entity. In the short term, that means the flurry of lawsuits between the PGA and LIV Golf are now moot, but that's nothing compared to the long-term results.

The merger of the three golfing leagues into a single entity with a name yet to be determined will include rolling up Saudi-owned LIV Golf into a minority ownership of the new golf league, giving the Saudi monarchy what it wanted all along: partial ownership of the PGA Tour. The Saudi investment fund will "retain exclusive rights to make further investments," reports CBS News, and the fund's governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, will join the PGA Tour's policy board.