How Saudi Arabia came to be at the centre of a global golf merger
- Written by David Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Professional golf – and increasingly world sport – is caught in a sand trap. Not the familiar hazard between fairway and green, but the Middle Eastern desert producing enormous quantities of fossil fuels.
The resulting riches are being diverted into sport, disrupting its traditional Western dominance.
The latest example is the dramatic...
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