LIV Golf’s Monopoly Marriage to PGA Seen Drawing Antitrust Fire

Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region. The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia-backed challenger LIV Golf avoided calling their proposed partnership a merger. But their shock announcement is already raising serious concerns with US and European antitrust enforcers, according to people familiar with the matter. The tie-up, which was announced Tuesday, is being viewed by officials as a brazen play loaded with red flags, not the least of which is creating a giant monopoly in an industry that had only recently...