{"id":671194,"date":"2026-05-29T01:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671194\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:28:17","slug":"saudis-liv-golf-exit-is-just-the-start-the-indicator-from-planet-money-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671194\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi\u2019s LIV Golf exit is just the start : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780018097_994_.png\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2600x1463+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fda%2Fd0%2Fc4a13b0547018f7cbf0cc8425cb3%2F428487b5-8162-4a39-8d60-9b71410341f5.png\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, lines up a putt. \" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund, lines up a putt.<\/p>\n<p>                    Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Is Saudi Arabia no longer a golf state? The Saudi sovereign wealth fund poured billions into culture and sports in the last decade, none more high profile than LIV Golf, a rival to the PGA. So why is it reversing course now?<\/p>\n<p>Fact checking by Vito Emanuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your Next Listen\u00a0<br \/>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/lnk.to\/IRHXVU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Saudi Arabia is building a new city in the desert<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Connect with The Indicator\u00a0<br \/>\u2014 Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/npr.org\/indicatornewsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Indicator\u2019s brand new newsletter<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\u2014 Find our <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/indicator_npr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">socials, YouTube and more<\/a>!\u00a0<br \/>\u2014 For sponsor-free episodes, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscribe to NPR+<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund, lines up a putt. Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images hide caption&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-671194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}