9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser says families of the terrorist attack’s victims are “feeling betrayed” by the PGA Tour’s merger with LIV Golf:

“They used the 9/11 families to further and exact a better deal with the Saudis…The PGA is an organization that is unprincipled.” pic.twitter.com/BdAIpG2ck3

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 7, 2023

“PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan co-opted the 9/11 community last year in the PGA’s unequivocal agreement that the Saudi LIV project was nothing more than sportswashing of Saudi Arabia’s reputation,” 9/11 Families United Chair Terry Strada, whose husband Tom died in the World Trade Center’s North Tower, said.

“But now the PGA and Monahan appear to have become just more paid Saudi shills, taking billions of dollars to cleanse the Saudi reputation so that Americans and the world will forget how the Kingdom spent their billions of dollars before 9/11 to fund terrorism, spread their vitriolic hatred of Americans, and finance al Qaeda and the murder of our loved ones. Make no mistake — we will never forget.”

[The PGA did have a lot to say about the Saudis’ human rights record to insist on lockstep refusal to participate in LIV events by PGA members. I’m not sure how much they relied on the 9/11 argument, but if they did at all, then this new merger is especially shameful. Perhaps PGA members should create a rival league and compete against the new combine. — Ed]