Saudis continue to make plans for breakaway golf tour

Having started out as the Premier Golf League — the project may actually now have been rebranded to include the word “Super”, unless the ESL prompted another rethink

Less than a fortnight after the collapse of the European Super League it has gone unnoticed that a similar disruption plan remains in play in another sport, with a breakaway tour in golf being funded and proposed by Saudi Arabia. And it has not faded into the background; far from it, in fact.

Having started out as the Premier Golf League — the project may actually now have been rebranded to include the word “Super”, unless the ESL prompted another rethink — offer letters and contracts are in the process of being delivered to a dozen of the most high-profile names in golf. Majed al-Sorour, the chief executive of Golf Saudi, is fronting the operation.