Cameron Percy has emerged as an unlikely defender of golf’s status quo, and he was at it again this week.
The Australian has been critical of LIV Golf over the past couple of weeks, and his opinion on the rebel tour shows no sign of changing after Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi women’s rights activist, was handed a 34-year jail sentence.
Al-Shehab, a mother of two, had tweeted calling for “basic rights”. Her sentence is the longest term ever given to a women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia.
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Freedom Initiative, a US-based human rights organisation, has condemned the sentence, saying: “Tweeting in solidarity with women’s rights activists is not a crime, and Saudi Arabia must be held accountable.”
After seeing the news, Percy reacted by trolling Bubba Watson, LIV’s latest signing.
“Should I ask Bubba to pray for her release?”, he wrote on Twitter.
Should l ask bubba to prey for her release? https://t.co/Zq6z3qu02j
— cameron percy (@cameronpercy1) August 16, 2022
His tweet was an apparent reference to comments made by Watson after he was announced by the series, which is bankrolled by the Saudi government’s public investment fund.
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