The tour will make return visits to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., (Aug. 11-13) and Trump National Doral in Miami (Oct. 20-22), and conclude its second season with the team championship at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, from Nov. 3-5.
Trump’s relationship with LIV was cemented last year, when the renegade series held two of its eight events at Trump properties. Family members of 9/11 victims who, along with others, have decried the venture as an attempt to “sportswash” Saudi Arabia’s horrific record of human rights abuses, protested when LIV hosted a tournament at Bedminster in July. A week after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the PGA of America canceled plans to hold the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump’s New Jersey course.
With exorbitant guaranteed paychecks backed by the Saudi government’s Public Investment Fund, LIV lured several popular golfers from the rival PGA Tour, including Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Cameron Smith, in its first season. The fund is chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who the CIA concluded ordered the assassination of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
