From WSJopinion: A new Saudi golf league has the sport talking about scandal, dishonor and murder, writes DanHenninger
next month to ask the prince to pump more oil into a world of ruinous $5-a-gallon gasoline. And by the way, South Korea, today a paragon of golf, endured military dictatorships for years before stabilizing as a democracy.
For the rest of us—participants or spectators, with or without LIV—golf will endure as it has for centuries. As it will when the U.S. Open begins Thursday at the Brookline, Mass.,, which hasn’t moved since 1882. As it did last week when the U.S.’s best amateur women golfers defeated Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup at suburban Philadelphia’s Merion Club .Professional tennis is gradually replacing people with electronics to call balls in or out.
So why has the difficult sport of golf survived and flourished—whether threatened by its frustrating physical challenges or Saudi oil money?
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