James Thompson
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5,677 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The golfers were promised they could play less golf across the course of a year.
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And they were offered these huge sign-on bonuses, which was the real attraction for many of them.
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The Live Golf Tour was backed by billions of dollars from the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund, um, the public investment fund as it's called.
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Basically, since the war in Iran has started
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Saudi economy's been put under pressure, um its energy sector's been put under pressure, and the sovereign wealth fund's had to sort of review its priorities.
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Now the Live Golf tour wasn't exactly sailing along from a financial point of view anyway.
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It was a bit of a money pit, but the Saudis have withdrawn their money.
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Uh the tour has basically collapsed.
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That there's talk that it could be potentially revived, perhaps as a player-owned tour.
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But I can't see that happening, Anthony.
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The only reason that a bunch of golfers went and joined this Rebel Tour was for the promise of big sign on bonuses paid for by the Saudis and big prize money paid for by the Saudis.
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If those two things aren't there, I mean, what's the point?
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I mean we had a lot of big name Australian golfers led by Cameron Smith, the the British Open winner, who decided to go and sort of take the big dollars and
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What happens to them now?
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It's it's really unclear, isn't it?
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Down in Melbourne, of course, and we're in the middle of uh a big money sporting event at the moment.
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The NFL is in town.
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Big game played on Friday morning so it can be beamed into the lounge rooms of Americans on Thursday night back in America.
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But it's just been amazing to see the the machinery around this thing, you know, streets closed, incredible security, uh the the the scale of this thing.
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I think it's working to your point.
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