Money doesn’t talk. It screams. From the top of a building through a Metallica sized sound system.  

It drowns out everything, and invariably, filthy lucre comes out on top because people are greedy. 

Everyone has their price and through relentless bludgeoning with a currency cosh, even the most principled of individuals will be reduced to a pummelled blob.  

LIV Golf, through their oil sodden overlords, have been raining down blows on the PGA for over a year now. The PGA eventually crumbled, panicked by litigation and lured by promises of the obscene wealth available through Saudi involvement. 

It’s been abrupt, out of the blue and eventually, remarkably simple. The PGA folded, turned its back on the loyal band of golfers who stood by them, making a mockery of the moral high ground they once pinned their rejection of Saudi money on.  

The story has a long way to go as the machinations of full submission are laid out. The golfing world has some serious navel gazing ahead as they struggle with their acceptance of sport washing.  

Golf is the latest in a long line of sports that have been consumed by Saudi Arabia’s desire to dominate sport globally and present their royal family in a positive light. 

Whether this attempt at sport washing (an effort to avert the world's gaze from their awful human rights record), is successful or not, only time will tell.  

The decision for sport is an easy one, money can soak up endless guilt and provide a platform for a number of incredulous excuses as to why acceptance isn’t just greed.  

For the fans the decision will largely be based on apathy. People just don’t care who funds the action, they just want something to distract them from the daily grind.  

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