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Tom Watson also wants answers on the PGA Tour’s deal with Saudi
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He thinks the whole idea is “compounded by the hypocrisy in disregarding the moral issue”

Eight-time major champion Tom Watson is the latest golf legend who wants answers on the PGA Tour’s new business partnership with Saudi backers of LIV Golf.

He wrote a letter with multiple questions about the deal towards the directors and said they were “compounded by the hypocrisy in disregarding the moral issue.”

On the day after Wyndham Clark became the latest major champion by winning the U.S. Open, focus shifted back to an issue that has consumed golf for the last three years. On June 6 the PGA Tour announced it had joined with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund and the European tour to put commercial businesses under one roof.

Monahan has referred to it as a “framework agreement” and he had few answers for players in a meeting two weeks ago at the Canadian Open.