The PGA Tour has reacted.
It has laid a hammer down on gamers competing within the Greg Norman-backed LIV Golf Sequence, which started its first occasion at 9 a.m. on Thursday. Inside an hour of first balls being struck within the LIV occasion, being performed outdoors of London, the Tour despatched out the discharge detailing its bans.
“Now we have adopted the Match Laws from begin to end in responding to these gamers who've determined to show their backs on the PGA Tour by willfully violating a regulation,” the discharge learn. “The gamers are being notified that they're suspended or in any other case not eligible to take part in PGA Tour match play, together with the Presidents Cup. This additionally applies to all excursions sanctioned by the PGA Tour: the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA tour Champions, PGA Tour Canada and PGA Tour Latinoamerica.
“The gamers listed under didn't obtain the required conflicting occasions and media rights releases — or didn't apply for releases in any respect — and their participation within the Saudi Golf League/LIV Golf occasion is a violation of our Match Laws.”
The gamers being banned are Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Talor Gooch, Andy Ogletree, Branden Grace, Matt Jones, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell, Kevin Na, Louis Oosthuizen, Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel, Hudson Swafford, Peter Uihlien, Lee Westwood and Turk Petit.
“Right this moment’s announcement by the PGA Tour is vindictive and it deepens the divide between the Tour and its members,” LIV Golf stated in a press release. “It’s troubling that the Tour, a corporation devoted to creating alternatives for golfers to play the sport, is the entity blocking golfers from enjoying. This actually is just not the final phrase on this subject. The period of free company is starting as we're proud to have a full area of gamers becoming a member of us in London, and past.”
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