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PGA Tour Extends LIV Bans For 2022/23 Season
Sep
In a report by Sports activities Illustrated (opens in new tab), it has been revealed {that a} letter has been despatched to the related LIV golfers who have not given up their PGA Tour memberships, with the Tour asserting that they won’t be allowed to play on the circuit in 2022/23.
The gamers in query embrace Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith, Pat Perez and all different PGA Tour gamers who didn’t resign their Tour membership after they teed it up within the LIV Golf Invitational Collection tournaments.
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Within the letter, which was written by Kirsten Burgess, the PGA Tour’s vp of competitors administration, it states that: “The phrases of your contractual commitments to LIV Golf prohibit you from satisfying the fabric obligations set forth within the rules and clarify that you don’t have any intention to, and certainly can not adjust to these necessities of membership within the PGA Tour.
“The Tour can not enter right into a membership settlement with a participant when, as right here, it fairly anticipates the participant won’t carry out the fabric obligations below that settlement. Accordingly, your PGA Tour membership can not and won’t be renewed for the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season.’’
As of writing, seven LIV gamers, together with Mickelson and DeChambeau, have filed an antitrust lawsuit, with LIV Golf additionally becoming a member of the lawsuit in opposition to the PGA Tour after it filed an amended criticism within the US District Courtroom in Northern California.
Inside, the Greg Norman-fronted enterprise has stated it’s searching for “punitive damages in opposition to the PGA Tour for its tortious interference with LIV Golf’s potential enterprise relationships.” It provides, the PGA Tour is “an entrenched monopolist with a vice-grip on skilled golf.”
DeChambeau and Mickelson are amongst the seven gamers within the Antitrust Lawsuit
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The Antitrust Lawsuit surrounds the gamers who’ve defected to the Saudi-funded breakaway circuit which were indefinitely suspended from the PGA Tour. It’s that sanction they want to problem.
Jay Monahan and different Tour officers imagine they’re properly inside their energy to ban any members who tee it up in conflicting occasions with out permission and received out when Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones tried to achieve entry into the FedEx Cup Playoffs by way of a short lived restraining order (TRO).
