Pablo Torre

The other thing I'm looking at, this portfolio, the Saudi Public Investment Fund, they're looking elsewhere, right?

And so soft power, I mean, this is the reminder.

You know, golf was one avenue, but it seems like the other one that they decided to go and back was, oh, right, Paramount.

They're spending $110 billion to go take over Warner Brothers.

And I'll just quote this line from The Hollywood Reporter.

"'The filing by Paramount Skydance "'with the Securities and Exchange Commission "'did not outline how much the funds planned to contribute, "'but sources familiar with the investment "'said the total amount was around $24 billion, "'with Saudi Arabia's PIF contributing about $12 billion.'"

and sovereign wealth funds for Abu Dhabi and Qatar, putting up around $6 billion each.

This is part of a broader push by the country to curry favor with Trump by influencing Washington and also keep young Saudi eyes and minds on the screens, not on questions of human rights.

And so from the perspective inside of golf, what is the attitude that,

from the PGA side of things.

How much of the sports washing stuff is part of the golf conversation?

How much of it is actually you guys tried to kill us and look who's bleeding now?

Donald Trump doesn't seem to have any hesitation about playing both sides here.

We are talking as he has just again hosted this tournament, a live tournament at Trump National in Washington, D.C., and the PGA was at Doral the week before yesterday.

For the 2026 Cadillac Championship, it was the first PGA Tour event to be held at one of Trump's properties since he became the president.

And so even as all of the chaos is swirling and erupting, Trump is, as always, cashing in everywhere.

But the idea that even as the PGA is capitulating to Donald Trump, that there are places in this world, there are places in the world of golf that will not abide by him because they do have some sense of a code.

That is not simply financial.

It is, in the way that you put it, the thing that I do almost perversely love about sports.

And this is the through line through this whole story, which is you could have $900 billion at your disposal.