Golf’s wealth wars
The influx of cash that came with the breakaway LIV series exposed the fault lines that run through all professional…
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Why are Tories so obsessed with Gary Lineker?
Also this week: a brawl at Lord’s and the US-Saudi golf rivalry.
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How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us all.
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On the Trumpist front lines of the Saudi golf takeover
At Donald Trump’s golf club in Virginia, I watched new money hijack a venerable sport.
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No one has the honour in golf’s civil war
Players joining the Saudi-funded LIV Golf tour are revealing the avarice and elitism at the heart of their sport.
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Golf’s stranglehold on land in London should be broken
The capital’s golf courses cover an area larger than Brent and could provide homes for over 300,000 people.
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From golf to Grand Theft Auto, why do we love playing games?
Philosopher Bernard Suits, author of The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, thought successful game players were the purest example of the achievement that humans yearn…
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The Elvis of golf
Seve Ballesteros was the finest golfer of his generation and the most inspiring figure I ever saw play the game.…
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