LIV Golf has accused the PGA Tour of getting the game’s biggest star to speak out against players who have joined the Saudi-backed circuit. Tiger Woods, at the tour’s request, publicly criticized players who bolted from the PGA Tour to LIV, according to accusations made in documents that are part of an antitrust lawsuit that …
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MEMPHIS — For most of Tuesday, the emails from the PGA Tour communications team said the same thing: Cameron Smith, No. 2 golfer in the world, would be speaking to the assembled media at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at 5:15 pm CT ahead of the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The events …
A lawyer for LIV Golf during Tuesday’s temporary restraining order hearing in US District Court in San Jose made a statement that called into question the matter of prize money on the Saudi-backed circuit. In June, Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee reported that the prize money presumably awarded at LIV Golf events was taken out …
A federal district court judge has ruled against three LIV Golf players who filed for a temporary restraining order that would have allowed them to play in this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship near Memphis. Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones were part of a larger suit involving 11 LIV Golf players who made …
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A judge in US District Court denied a motion Tuesday afternoon to three LIV Golf members seeking to participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, giving the PGA Tour the first victory in the legal battle between the tour and the Saudi-backed circuit. As part of the lawsuit filed by Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and nine …
Tuesday was the hearing date for the lawsuit filed against the PGA Tour by 10 members of the LIV Golf Series (the number of players was originally 11, but Carlos Ortiz dropped out). LIV players have been suspended by the PGA Tour, and because of this, are unable to participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs …
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A federal judge in California might decide Tuesday whether to grant a temporary restraining order that would allow three golfers who left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf to participate in the FedEx Cup playoffs, starting this week at the FedEx St. Jewish Championship. Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1-ranked player in the …
Cameron Smith, who won the British Open at St. Andrews with a final-round 64, is apparently headed to the LIV Golf Invitational Series along with fellow Australian Marc Leishman following the FedEx Cup playoffs. Another Aussie golfer, Cameron Percy, told RSN Radio Australia in Melbourne that “unfortunately, yeah they’re gone,” and that the details are …
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A few weeks back, at LIV Golf’s Trump Bedminster exhibition, former PGA Tour pro Bryson DeChambeau sat down with political firebrand Tucker Carlson to discuss the state of the current LIV Golf-PGA Tour impasse. In that interview, DeChambeau, perhaps a little hangry ahead of a late lunch, likened the complex, potentially precedent-setting legal situation to …
The PGA Tour response on Monday to the motion for a temporary restraining order by three LIV golfers was as expected. A pointed argument was put forward explaining why the players, in this case Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones, are not entitled to relief by the courts and in fact are not even …
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