Will you commit today, Mr. Price, that the PGA Tour will not punish any members who criticize the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or human rights anywhere, regardless of this new relationship with PIF?
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We are here because the regime, an autocratic, repressive regime, is torturing, imprisoning, killing its own people.
I will continue to support the PGA Tour. Just make no mistake--as I said before, America is on your side.
I am betting--because I never want to bet against America--that America will be on your side, thick or thin.
I will continue to support the PGA Tour. Just make no mistake--as I said before, America is on your side.
If we are going to be selling out to countries that can throw around hundreds of billions of dollars, we are going to lose, not just financially.
We are going to continue this inquiry. We are going to ask that the other potential witnesses that we invited actually come and share their perspectives and information.
But you could go elsewhere for $1 billion, $3 billion, maybe $50 billion. Correct?
I have the deepest sympathy for the families of 9/11 and support their efforts of obtaining information currently being withheld by the United States and Saudi governments.
Senator Cornyn and I led the effort--it is called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA)--to enable those families to go to court.
Congress' authority to investigate here and investigate golf comes from Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution.
But as you well know, antitrust law, consumer protection law, many other laws involve protection of public interests and individual interests because the public interest demands it.
I think the general feeling, and I am quoting, is that a lot of people feel a bit of betrayal from management.
That is how they can be disruptive because they have a lot of money, bucketsful of money. Correct?
You still have the choice to stand up against sportswashing, against the Saudi monarchy, against the hundreds of billions of dollars, and maybe a lot more that the Saudis will throw at you and stand up for America because America is going…
But there is something that stinks about this path that you are on right now because it is a surrender, and it is all about the money, and that is the reason for the backlash that you have seen.
It is better to know what the concerns of the American people are before you are straitjacketed and locked into an agreement that may, in fact, unfairly and even illegally, bind you, your players, sponsors, and others.
Will you commit today, Mr. Price, that the PGA Tour will not punish any members who criticize the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or human rights anywhere, regardless of this new relationship with PIF?
The Saudi government is the dominant owner here. It has the equity interest.
But there is an understanding that PIF will contribute an investment to the PGA Tour and the entity that will control it.





