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Recent from taking part in within the LIV Golf pro-am, retired Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner, says her help for the Saudi-backed tour roots from her athlete’s perspective and commends the capitalist endeavor.
The large-name, three-day occasion passed off at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership in Bedminster, N.J. Swedish skilled golfer Henrik Stenson received the $4 million event prize, and all gamers went residence with earnings of their pocket.
Caitlyn Jenner performs her shot from the primary tee through the pro-am previous to the LIV Golf Invitational – Bedminster at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership Bedminster on July 28, 2022 in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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Jenner shared her expertise taking part within the tour with Fox Information.
“Not solely did I’ve a enjoyable time taking part in, I performed with Ian Poulter and Paul Casey, but it surely was only a actually good, optimistic angle…all of the gamers regarded like they had been having fun with themselves, and it was nice competitors.”
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The brand new tour is funded by the Public Funding Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia which has teed up a golf battle with the PGA.
Jenner says the competitors is nice and can push the PGA Tour to determine methods to maintain interesting to gamers.
“Should you’re on the PGA Tour and do not make the reduce, you do not get any cash by any means, and also you’re out your bills, your accommodations. The PGA Tour is admittedly going to have to have a look at this very critically and work out a means sooner or later that they’ll all work collectively. And I feel that is the way in which and I feel on the finish, it should be higher for the golfers,” she shared.
The Saudi-backed tour has obtained widespread criticism pointing to repression of human rights beneath Sharia Regulation extending to alleged ties to the 9/11 terrorist assaults.
Jenner says the criticism the tour faces “may be very hypocritical in so some ways [especially] with the Saudi’s Public Funding enjoyable.”
Main U.S. publicly traded firms resembling Meta Platforms Inc., FedEx Corp, Uber Applied sciences Inc., and Walmart Inc. are closely invested in Saudi Arabia’s PIF sovereign wealth fund.
“To be sincere with you, who put the majority of that cash? They’re most likely us. We have been shopping for oil from the Saudis for years and years and years and years. I imply, they’re closely concerned in so many issues with the billion-dollar fund. I imply, they’re closely invested in Boeing. Are individuals not flying on Boeing plane due to this?” shared Caitlyn.
In an interview on Sunday, Tucker Carlson sat down with LIV CEO Greg Norman to debate the warmth the tour has confronted.
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Norman pointed to PGA sponsors saying he thinks they “ha[ve] about 27 sponsors who do 40-plus billion {dollars} value of annual enterprise on an annual foundation in Saudi Arabia.”
“The LIV tour is round to remain…it isn’t solely sooner or later is the golf going to be fascinating and good enterprise, however the enterprise aspect {of professional} golf goes to be very fascinating to observe and to see what occurs,” Jenner stated.
