Resorts World Sentosa inwards Singapore Island has struck a partnership with LIV Golf, the controversial global professional golf game circuit funded past Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). The monarch riches monetary fund is among the world’s richest with assets estimated at $620 billion.
The 2023 LIV Golf Season teed sour in conclusion month inwards Mexico with LIV Golf Mayakoba. The tour next stops in Tucson, Ariz., on March 17-19.
LIV Golf Singapore Island is circle for April 28-30 at Sentosa Golf Club’s Serapong course. Resorts World Republic of Singapore is ane of the world’s largest integrated resort destinations and features a cassino storey spanning 160,000 square toes feet with to a greater extent than 2,400 one-armed bandit machines and 500 tabularise games. The belongings testament live the presenting patronise of LIV Golf Singapore.
We are bringing LIV Golf to Singapore Island as it is part of our DNA to bid young and premium experiences to our wide of the mark reach of visitors. Many of our insurance premium visitors are also golf game enthusiasts and this event will invoke to them,” commented RW Sentosa CEO Tan Hee Teck.
World Golf G. Stanley Hall of Fame member Greg Norman, who serves as CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf, said the golf tourney will bring some of the world’s topper golfers to Singapore, a “market worth(p) of our sport’s spinning top competition and event experiences.”
Resorts World Sentosa shares a duopoly on gambling casino gaming inwards Republic of Singapore with Marina Bay Sands, which is owned and operated past Las Vegas Sands.
Subdued Controversy
LIV Golf has been scolded on the worldwide political leg for beingness a breast for the Saudi governing to improve its public image through “sportswashing.” In the United States, many residents, journalists, and PGA Tour players keep to feature a negatively charged thought of the Saudis because of the country’s alleged ties to financing the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
Despite the controversy, LIV Golf’s monolithic sign-on bonuses and $25 billion tournament purses make managed to poach legion(p) high-profile players from the PGA Tour. Notable golf superstars who have jumped to LIV include Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, and Van Wyck Brooks Koepka.
Resorts World Sentosa’s parent organisation is the Genting Group, a Malaysia-based empire with investments in gaming and hospitality, oil and gas, agriculture, scientific discipline and biotechnology, and force generation. While Genting’s Resorts World New House of York City attribute is far less potential to rearwards a US-based LIV Golf event, the Singapore Island tournament will presumptively cause far to a lesser extent disputation for the worldwide conglomerate.
Tan, who was elevated to his CEO role inwards May 2022, says Resorts World’s sponsorship of LIV Golf Republic of Singapore is piece of the casino’s on-going loyalty to bringing world-class amusement and attractions to the city-state.
Trump Involvement
Former President Donald Trump is a bounteous buff of LIV Golf and is lending several of his golf courses to the tour. The 2023 LIV Golf League consists of 14 tournaments, and trio of them are localize for courses with Trump inward their name.
LIV Golf Washington, DC, mark for May 26-28, will be contested at Trump National Golf Club out of doors the nation’s majuscule in Sterling, Va. LIV Golf Bedminster, slated for Aug. 11-13, will be played at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey. And on Oct. 20-22, LIV Golf Miami will follow contested at Trump National Doral.
Trump said lastly light that LIV Golf is backed past “good people with unlimited money.”
New House of York Impact
Genting is pursuing a downstate full-scale cassino certify for RW New House of York City. The casino in Queens close JFK International Airport is currently limited to picture drawing terminals and electronic tabularize games. type A full-scale gambling casino certify would permit the holding to convey Las Vegas-style slots, live dealer tabularise games, and sports betting to the property.
Along with MGM Resorts’ Empire City Casino inward Yonkers, Resorts World is considered unity of the front-runners for ace of the threesome downstate gambling casino licenses.