Saudi activist urges LPGA to resist LIV approach

Lina Alhathloul, whose sister Loujain Alhathloul spent 1,001 in prison for campaigning for women’s rights, has called upon the key stakeholders in women’s professional golf resist an approach from the Saudi-funded organisation.

Rumours continue to intensify that a women’s LIV series could soon happen. The prospect was first raised on The bunkered Podcast in March when LIV CEO Greg Norman admitted that he had “spoken to the Lexi Thompsons of the world and had conversations with them about ‘what would you think if…’”

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Then, in July, LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan revealed she would be open to working with LIV to create a women’s version of the men’s series that launched this year.

Now, as LIV prepares to stage the final regular event of its inaugural season in Saudi Arabia this week, and as some of the LPGA’s leading players compete in the Saudi-backed Aramco Team Series in New York, Alhathloul has urged them to think twice.

An open letter to the @LPGA Commissioner, Board of Directors, and Players — pleading them not to…