So it’s no wonder an agreement between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has not yet been finalized. The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations (PSI) has held three separate hearings related to the PGA Tour’s pending deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), the beneficiary of LIV Golf. Congress wants answers as to why the tour would sign an agreement with its biggest rival, which also happens to be a sovereign wealth fund of a foreign government. Congress also wants to know what the PIF wants out of this. Do they want more influence in the United States? A greater return on their investment? Or, as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman alluded to in a Fox News interview in September 2023, do they want to sportswash—or cleanse the sins of their atrocities through sport? Hence, Congress subpoenaed both sides.
