tour was telling us a year ago how they were so concerned and so sympathetic with 9/11 families. so worried about the lgbtq rights and human rights and saudi arabia. how terrible liv golf was, and of course they did a complete 180, five, six weeks ago. so the idea that they re telling us this now. how do we even believe them? how do we know they re telling the truth? the notion that the saudis are buying in at that price of more than $1 billion as we heard today in the hearing, and they re not going to want to control things? that s ridiculous. it defies credulity and the pga s credibility is about zero right now. it might be under par, because of what has gone on in the last year. i don t know that we can believe any of this. the timing is also notable because this hearing comes a day after randall stevenson, the executive, resigned from the pga board. he said that he had specific serious concerns about the partnership with the saudis.
american fans have been very antiliv and the liv golf tv ratings are terrible. the attendance is terrible. there is no cut. it is three rounds. it s basically a joke. so the notion that it somehow is building and if that s their argument, there are more people going and fans are more interested, all the stats, all the facts show the exact opposite of what he said today. and looking forward, there is the question of autonomy. ron price, the pga tour chief operating officer, he said the framework agreement includes clear and explicit permanent safeguards that ensure that the tour will lead the decisions and it will control operations. but the saudis are spending a lot of money. upwards of a billion dollars. if they control the purse strings, how much autonomy does the pga board ultimately have? exactly. that is the question. and we know from what the pga