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PGA Tour Seeks to Add Saudi Wealth Fund to Lawsuit Over LIV Golf

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A federal judge will decide whether one of the tour’s leading avenues to investigate and challenge a new rival can be expanded.

Yasir al-Rumayyan, the governor of the Public Investment Fund, left, with former President Donald J. Trump during a LIV Golf pro-am tournament at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in July 2022.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

The PGA Tour intensified its legal fight against LIV Golf on Tuesday, when it asked a federal judge in California to let it add Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund to a lawsuit that has become one of its principal ways to investigate — and try to undercut — the circuit that has assaulted the tour’s customary dominance.