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Where Have You Gone, Arthur Ashe? LIV Tour Golfers Need You.

Our columnist asks whether players who have defected to the Saudi-financed golf series will use their platform to bring awareness to human rights violations. Don’t hold your breath.

Greg Norman, the LIV Golf chief executive, left, with the golfers Dustin Johnson, center, and Phil Mickelson, during the new tour’s first event last week near London.Credit...Matthew Lewis/Getty Images

Maybe some good for the world can come out of the lavish new golf tour backed by Saudi Arabia, among the most repressive governments in the world in the eyes of human rights groups.