LOS ANGELES — A pair of United States senators are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to review the PGA Tour's planned partnership with the DP World Tour and LIV Golf.
separate from the justice department's investigation into antitrust concerns that was raised last year.
"The PGA-LIV deal would make a U.S. organization complicit — and force American golfers and their fans to join this complicity — in the Saudi regime's latest attempt to sanitize its abuses by pouring funds into major sports leagues," the senators wrote.
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