One of the topics discussed during Tuesday’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing involving the PGA Tour’s recent framework deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund was a non-disparagement clause within the agreement.
The clause can be found in the ninth paragraph of the agreement – it was added during the third revision of a lengthy editing period, and all the revisions were included in a batch of documents released by the Senate committee on Tuesday morning – and it states the following:
Each party agrees and covenants that it will not at any time, directly or indirectly, make, publish or communicate to any person or entity or in any public forum any defamatory or disparaging remarks, comments, or statements concerning the other Party, their affiliates and ultimate beneficial owners or their respective businesses, directors, employees, officers, shareholders, members or advisors.