Donald Trump and his fans tried to make the Saudi-sponsored tournament into a mini campaign event on Saturday, despite the fact that tickets for the event were going for as little as $1.
The crowd behind the first tee erupted into chants of "four more years!" when the former president emerged in a red "Make America Great Again" cap.
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Trump raised a fist at the 16th tee as he watched the Saudi tournament.
Dave Teed, a local firefighter who came to the event, told Golfweek that he could deal with Saudi Arabia, but it was not something he could tolerate. I wouldn't be in this place.
The Washington Post didn't like the fact that the tournament had thin crowds, big talk and loud music, even as players lined up tricky putts.
The new LIV tournament was financed by Saudi Arabia's wealth fund and was hailed by Trump as a great way to compete with the America's own PGA tournament. The Saudi tourney is a gold rush, according to the former president.
Critics have bashed the LIV tournaments as "sport washing" by a brutal regime seeking to cleanse its reputation after the dismemberment-murder of a Washington Post journalist.
The families of 9/11 victims called on Trump to not hold the tournament.
The daughter of a firefighter who died in the 9/11 attacks asked Donald Trump how much money it would take to turn his back on the Americans.
In response to criticism, Trump on Thursday ripped the "maniacs who did that horrible thing" of the 9/11 terror attacks, but insisted that "nobody's gotten to the bottom of 9/11"
He told the Wall Street Journal that the backlash over the killing of the Saudi journalist had ended. The crown prince ordered the dissident's murder, according to American intel.
15 of the 19 al-Qaeda terrorists who carried out the attacks were from Saudi Arabia. Several contacts and phone calls between Saudi officials and terrorists were detailed by the FBI.
The report implicated many Saudi government officials in a coordinated effort to mobilize an essential support network for the first arriving 9/11 hijackers, according to the 9/11 Families United group.
The Saudis were said to be the likely culprits in 9/11.
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