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Trump Embraces LIV Golf, Backing a New Saudi Strategy

After decades of failure and rejection in sports, the former president’s New Jersey course will host a LIV Golf tournament this weekend, but the event is not simply about the golf.

The LIV Golf series will make stops at courses owned by former President Donald J. Trump this weekend in New Jersey and in October in South Florida.Credit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Donald J. Trump has long toyed with becoming a sports baron.

He tried for years to buy an N.F.L. franchise and was a face of a second-tier football league that collapsed.