Players taking Saudi money for weak events is a bad look for golf | Ewan Murray

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Golfers such as Lee Westwood embracing LIV tournaments of little quality and ignoring human rights are damaging the sport

. That feels considerably more scary than the rapid pace of modernisation Westwood perceives. A spokesperson for UPS, a longtime sponsor of Westwood, hardly delivered a ringing endorsement when asked what the firm thinks of high-profile athletes gleefully accepting Saudi swag. “We are constantly evaluating our sponsorship and partnership decisions and will continue to monitor this situation,” they said.

Greg Norman, pictured with Phil Mickelson in Saudi Arabia in February, has been a public face of the Kingdom’s golf push.It remains depressing that golfers are so willing to assist the Saudis in a sportswashing exercise. Human rights atrocities cast a shadow over everything the Public Investment Fund writes cheques for. Yet in a competitive sense Norman’s plans for an opening tournament, taking place at the Centurion Club in early June, are already undermined by the cast list .

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