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PGA Tour Can Depose Saudi Wealth Fund’s Leader, Judge Rules

The decision in a case involving the LIV Golf series could open a rare window into the operations of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

Yasir al-Rumayyan, left, is the governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and the chief executive of Golf Saudi.Credit...Jasen Vinlove/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the leader of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which has bankrolled the new LIV Golf series, must sit for a deposition by lawyers for the PGA Tour who sought his testimony as part of the tangle of litigation involving the sport-splitting circuit.