{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68b1d0ea993d10acb9c3fe4f/6a0271178e9a64ceebb7c5bd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"It's the End of LIV Golf as We Knew It (and Trump Feels Fine)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68b1d0ea993d10acb9c3fe4f/1778544935407-037449f3-3e48-4c2e-bc02-f0c071817120.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The president may have ended his favorite sport's civil war — by waging a war of his own. But what did we really learn from Saudi Arabia's multibillion-dollar golf experiment? Journalist Alan Shipnuck explains what insiders are texting about but won't say out loud: that golfers are the most overpaid athletes on Earth, that peacetime is suddenly more complicated for the PGA Tour... and that sportswashing is insidious because it works.</p><p><br></p><p>• Read <a href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/LIV-and-Let-Die/Alan-Shipnuck/9781668020012\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\"LIV and Let Die\"</a> by Alan Shipnuck</p><p><br></p><p>• Previously on PTFO: <a href=\"https://pod.link/1685093486/episode/NjkwZDJlYjhjNzJiNzg2OWUyNTc5Zjhj\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Mickelson, the Pipeline and Trump's (Alleged) 14-Inch Pipe</a></p>","author_name":"The Athletic"}