Saudi golf course win is latest victory in billion-dollar passenger car makeover

Hello’s Lisa Fleisher, your luxury correspondent in Dubai. The biggest news in sports and tourism this week was the sudden closure of a massive fight between the Saudi-backed LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.

we had just written about Saudi Arabia’s use of icons of Western culture to “excite its burgeoning younger generation and boost its tourism industry.” In the same story: “activists say Saudi Arabia is diverting attention from a poor national record on free expression and other human rights” as well as an international image “battered by a brutal war in Yemen and the killing of dissident Saudi Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.”