‘Great for the game’: Golf stars defend joining Saudi-backed LIV tour

Two past Masters champions, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, are joining the controversial LIV Golf. Mickelson and Johnson defended playing in the new series of tournaments backed by Saudi Arabia’s billions of dollars, even as some questioned the Arab nation’s past human rights abuses. CNN’s Alex Thomas reports. #CNN #News

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    1. @Aladdin Nah. Not really. I just can’t stop rolling my eyes when these athletes pretend to have “higher standards” because they’re “standing up for the sport”. Lmao. I’d respect them more if they just honestly admitted that they’re greedy.

    2. @Emily I roll my eyes on westerners people who act like they’re all for human rights, and ignore the fact that they have fingers in every atrocity. From Asia, Middle East, Africa, and south America.
      Arab money is much cleaner than anything from your country. The players don’t deserve to be shamed for secure and generational wealth. Especially when you guys don’t hold your governments and history to the same standards

  1. “I don’t condone the human rights abuse or the killing of that journalist”…But I’ll gladly take the money though…Trying to have it both ways

    1. “ I don’t condone young slaves working for peanuts in foreign sweatshops, but just make sure they have my IPhone 14S ready by Christmas.”

  2. So much for “I don’t do it for the money, I do it because it’s what I love to do more than anything.” People are just too greedy these days.

    1. “ I don’t condone young slaves working for peanuts in foreign sweatshops, but just make sure they have my IPhone 14S ready by Christmas.”

  3. Next it will be (football) soccer . Then they will expand their tour to China and Russia and exclude the states . This Golf plan , and Ukraine , soon a china issue , is a calculated plan for years . There is an attempt to separate from states

  4. “The Saudi’s golf tourneys are great! They have glowing gold orbs filled with human eyeballs. “

  5. Hey Phil, by joining them you are in fact condoning what they do. All I can do is my own boycott.

  6. *If golfers couldn’t play in countries infringing so called “human rights”, there are many countries they’d have to avoid. And America, which loves to give lessons to everyone, would be high on the list.*

  7. When it comes to money, who cares about human rights? The US government doesn’t stand up for human rights, when it comes to your oil supply being threatened… These guys are going for the money.

  8. It’s great for the game but bad for the journalists.
    Maybe the Saudi Crown Prince can find someone he doesn’t have to cut up and who fits naturally into a suitcase

  9. So a lack of character and integrity is now a virtue. Sports sure have changed from when I was a kid.

  10. Despite the economic downturn,I’m so happy☺️. I have been earning $ 60,000 returns from my $7,000 investment every 13days.

    1. <私は非常に満足してい る👉┼𝟭𝟯𝟭𝟱𝟱𝟱𝟰𝟵𝟳𝟰𝟴👈私は非常に満足している>

  11. Every player playing in this is saying they are prepared to turn a blind eye to murder, talk about selling your soul.

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