![]() ![]() The US legal system was getting closer than ever to peering into the labyrinth of Saudi funding and what would have, effectively, been an anatomising effort. The decision meant that first deposition subpoenas could be served on PIF and Al-Rumayyan at a location in New York City, as opposed to Riyadh itself. In the US Northern District of California court, Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled in April that the PIF and Al-Rumayyan could both be the subject of discovery and depositions. They could only whine: to comply and supply any depositions in the case would amount to a violation of Saudi Arabian law. Given the House of Saud’s indecent record on human rights, and its programmatic determination to use sports as a vehicle to rinse and launder its misdeeds, this was not something the lawyers for LIV Golf were hoping for. The Tour then filed a countersuit against LIV, convincing the courts that it could also add Saudi Arabia’s PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, as co-defendants. It was subsequently commandeered by LIV Golf. Most prominent was an antitrust lawsuit originally filed against the Tour by such LIV Golf exiles as Phil Mickelson. Off the field, the sides did legal battle. The ultimate winner’s earnings came to $4 million the wooden spooner got a not negligible $120,000 for just turning up. Each regular-season event’s total came to $25 million $20 million was set aside for the individual event $5 million went towards the team competition component. In the first season of LIV Golf events, the PGA Tour knew it was facing a formidable competitor that potentially threatened its existence. “I can’t imagine that very many people outside the 2-3-4-5 people in the room and brought this merger to fruition would have known anything about it.” Perhaps he should have asked the functionaries in Riyadh for clues or had a closer look at the black heart of the PGA Tour. “He went up in flames in the media cuz of his brutal honesty and now everyone’s finally realizing he was right and the PGA Tour does whatever they feel like.”īrandel Chamblee, a golf analyst, for they do exist, expressed his shock. He wondered why the PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, despite brimming hostility against LIV Golf had “basically got a promotion to CEO of all golf in the world by going back on everything he said in the past 2 years?” Having more or less answered his own question, Wu went on to express admiration for the LIV Golf renegade, Phil Mickelson, for whom he expressed gushing admiration. And there were a few, clearly ignorant of that powerful nexus between money, the privateer spirit and sporting administrators.ĭylan Wu, PGA Tour member, could be counted as one of them. The announcement that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would be merging would only have shocked the naïve and a number of fox hole bleeding hearts. Inventory No: 253633.Photograph Source: Peetlesnumber1 – CC BY-SA 4.0ĭescribed as acrimonious, divisive and disruptive to golf, the LIV Golf Tournament, launched with the aid of former world number one Greg Norman and an enormous well of capital fronted by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), will now unite with the enemy. Category: Biography Biography & Autobiography ISBN: 1863593381. Illustrated with black and white photographs. But above all, it is a disturbing portrait of power in Australia and how it can be used. Now, having massively increased the family fortune, he is said to be lonely, unhappy and easily bored.Two years of intensive research and hundreds of interviews make THE RISE AND RISE OF KERRY PACKER a compelling biography of Australia's least understood tycoon. ![]() Called 'boofhead' by his father, he was never encouraged to smile on himself or the world. As a child, Kerry was considered an idiot by his schoolmates and family. Politicians come to him to ask him what he wants. Yet Kerry is infinitely more powerful than they ever were. Big figures on the political scene, they used their papers unashamedly to make and break governments. Packer, and father, Frank, had a reputation for hot temper and bullying, but they also inspired great loyalty. Buccaneers in business, Kerry's grandfather, R.C. The Packers have always made enemies and almost always had their way with the world. But what is he really like and where did he come from? In this the first book ever written about the man and his family, Paul Barry charts the Packer dynasty's unstoppable rise to power. His friends generally refuse to speak about him, while his employees and rivals don't dare. ![]() Kerry Packer is Australia's richest and most powerful man, with a media empire worth $3000 million. ![]()
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