Yes, we will do it proudly. We will protect our players.

Were any of the other independent directors on the board informed about the conversations or negotiations?

Thank you. Chairman Blumenthal, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today regarding the PGA Tour.

In 2023 we will distribute almost $1 billion to our players.

To be clear, he is out of a job.

This effort to restrict, punish, torture, imprison, kill people who stand up for their beliefs is a growing worldwide phenomenon, and I would hope that it would unite us on a bipartisan basis.

I think the general feeling, and I am quoting, is that a lot of people feel a bit of betrayal from management.

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 would like to have a commitment from both of you that the final agreement will not prevent players or PGA Tour executives from commenting on or criticizing actions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Again, I can only emphasize to you, Mr. Price, that your players, like Tiger Woods, gave up hundreds of millions of dollars. They stood strong. I hope the PGA Tour will as well.

If this litigation is ended and your revenue is almost $3 billion a year, why do you need the Saudis' billion dollars?

The PGA Tour brought in over $1.5 billion in revenue in 2021. Less than 3 percent of it, $43,694,020, was expensed as charitable grants.

Are you bound by the non-disparagement clause that is very specifically stated in the agreement?

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…

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.

The bed was on fire when you got into it.

Our review of internal documents indicates that there are other understandings and agreements.

To have them taken over by a repressive foreign regime certainly is a matter of our national security.

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.

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?

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.

I would join you in a bipartisan effort to make those facts more available.

But most corporations trust their boards of directors.

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.