“I was reminded that if you stay away, if you don’t engage, if you don’t talk, you don’t visit, then you’re merely kind of hardening positions, and so that actually doesn’t do any good…I will hold my hand up and say that the position I had two years ago was probably not the right position to have. And so that is why I am here.”
-Paul Casey, one of the world’s top-ranked professional golfers, in Saudi Arabia for the Saudi International tournament. Two years ago, Casey made a point of saying he would not be playing in the Saudi International, citing his work with UNICEF and telling The Independent that he “would be a hypocrite” if he were paid to play there. But Casey has reversed his stance. At the Saudi International on Tuesday, he said that after thinking about it the last two years, he learned UNICEF was not a political organization. [Associated Press]
