{"id":10698,"date":"2022-06-11T21:42:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/saudi-backed-tournament-creates-hazard-for-professional-golf\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T21:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:42:39","slug":"saudi-backed-tournament-creates-hazard-for-professional-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-backed tournament creates hazard for professional golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W3-zPmJavOY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The intersection of sports and geopolitics continued to play out Saturday during the first-ever LIV Golf series in London. The new competition is backed by the Saudi government and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman amid heavy criticisms of the country&#8217;s human rights record and the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. USA Today&#8217;s Christine Brennan joins John Yang to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intersection of sports and geopolitics continued to play out Saturday during the first-ever LIV Golf series in London. The new competition is backed by the Saudi government and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman amid heavy criticisms of the country&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[15884,15885,15891,15886,15887,15888,15889,15890],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-golf","tag-golfing","tag-liv-golf-tournament","tag-pga","tag-pga-saudi-league","tag-pga-tour","tag-professional-golf","tag-professional-golfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}