Jan. 19, 2023: The LIV Golf League and The CW network reach an agreement on a multiyear deal to broadcast tournaments over the air and on The CW app. February 2023: Visit Saudi is in talks to sponsor the 2023 Women's World Cup, but the deal is abandoned after protests from the women...
Nohra explained that the objectives handed down to the Saudi Pro League's bosses were to firstly improve on-pitch performance through the acquisition of world-class players, to fill the country's stadia and ultimately to drive the commercialization of the vastly improved overall product. ...
Last tournament: Ripper GC won the LIV Golf Team Championship. Notes: This is the first tournament of the 14-tournament schedule for LIV Golf League, which enters its fourth year. ... The 54-hole event starts on Thursday and ends on Saturday, and it will be played under the nights to ...
Niemann, who closed with a 4-under 67, finished the year with three wins, two of them early in the LIV Golf League season. It was his second win this year in Saudi Arabia. Smith rallied with a 62 and got into the playoff when Niemann and Surrat (66) each bogeyed the ...
Mickelson is a six-time major champion, the most popular golfer this side of Tiger Woods. And now he is being referred to as a “stooge” by a human rights group for being among 48 players who have signed up for a rebel golf league backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. ...
Besides golf, the fund offered one of soccer's biggest stars, Cristiano Ronaldo, $200 million to join a Saudi team. And it also owns the Premier League's Newcastle soccer club. As the calendar turns to 2024, there is no sign of Saudi involvement in sports slowing. The Saudis are hostin...
“wrecking ball” who could “never be a leader on the world stage.” And Jay Monahan, the head of golf’sprestigiousPGA Tour, suggested that players who joined a rival Saudi-backed league betrayed the victims of the Sept. 11terrorist attacks— carried out byhijackerswho were mostly Saudi ...
The upstart LIV Golf league had been locked in a heated rivalry over the top golfers in the world. Players like Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau took the guaranteed money from LIV Golf, while players like Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods pledged to remain with the long-establi...
The new lucrative Saudi Arabia-backed golf league is a “new opportunity” for players and the sport, according to its chairmanGreg Norman. Speaking to CNN Sport’sAmanda Davies, the two-time major winner said that he believes the new venture will provide a perfect environment to sustain the...
PIF has also been highly active in several sports in recent years, including bankrolling LIV Golf’s attempt to challenge the PGA Tour as well as the Saudi Pro League’s efforts to lure the world’s top footballers. But those investments have drawn accusations of “sportswashing” from human...