<p>The president may have ended his favorite sport's civil war — by waging a war of his own. But what did we really learn from Saudi Arabia's multibillion-dollar golf experiment? Journalist Alan Shipnuck explains what insiders are texting about but won't say out loud: that golfers are the most overpaid athletes on Earth, that peacetime is suddenly more complicated for the PGA Tour... and that sportswashing is insidious because it works.</p><br><p>• Read <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/LIV-and-Let-Die/Alan-Shipnuck/9781668020012" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"LIV and Let Die"</a> by Alan Shipnuck</p><br><p>• Previously on PTFO: <a href="https://pod.link/1685093486/episode/NjkwZDJlYjhjNzJiNzg2OWUyNTc5Zjhj" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Phil Mickelson, the Pipeline and Trump's (Alleged) 14-Inch Pipe</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>