A group of local officials wrote a letter expressing their concerns to the owner of Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club near Portland, Oregon, as the course prepares to host the second event for the LIV Golf Invitational Series.
"We oppose this event because it is being sponsored by a repressive government whose human rights abuses are documented. We refuse to support these abuses by complicitly allowing the Saudi-backed organization to play in our backyard," the letter said, per the Associated Press' Anne M. Peterson.
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