The United States Senate will host another public hearing regarding the PGA Tour’s proposed deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The meeting, announced Wednesday and scheduled for Sept. 13, comes after PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan’s repeated evasions to testify before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The hearing is expected to focus on PIF’s Read more…
Those doing the questioning made sure the proceedings were entertaining, and occasionally informative, with a 267-page document dump at the hearing’s onset offering a number of surprising admissions.
The documents, which can be read in full within this story, include internal e-mails, text messages, and other communications between both parties that show some intricacies of how a high stakes deal like this came together.
In the basic agreement that was signed on May 30, none of these proposals were included, and it still remains unclear if any of them are still being considered.
In a letter to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations asked for records and communications between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.