Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks have spoken out against LIV Golf as it prepares for an event less than 50 miles from the scene of the atrocity.
Protests were previously held ahead of the circuit’s US debut in Portland earlier this month, but its arrival in New Jersey is likely to see those step up a notch.
Trump Bedminster, where this week’s 54-hole tournament is being held, is a short distance from Manhattan, the site of the World Trade Center which was one of the targets on 9/11.
Families of those killed are angry at the series’ arrival as it is backed by the Saudi government’s public investment fund. Of the 19 hijackers on September 11 2001, 15 were Saudi nationals.
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“If I could talk to [the players from LIV Golf] I would that say I’m horrified they could be bought. It’s not like [Phil Mickelson and others] are struggling [financially],” Alison Crowther, whose son Welles was killed, told the New York Post.
“That they could be morally compromised by money from a source such as this, I find it appalling. I find it a testament to their own character, which is unsatisfactory.”
An investigation by the FBI into the Saudi government’s involvement in the atrocity found two of the…
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