The PGA Tour has requested a federal choose in San Francisco to disclaim the enchantment of three suspended gamers who joined Saudi-backed LIV Golf and now wish to compete within the tour’s profitable postseason, arguing the gamers knew the results two months in the past.
Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford filed a brief restraining order final week, separate from 10 gamers who filed an antitrust lawsuit in opposition to the PGA Tour. The listening to is scheduled for right now, two days earlier than the primary of three FedEx Cup playoff occasions within the chase for the $18m prize.
The FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee, has a $15m purse, and the highest 70 gamers advance to the second postseason occasion in Wilmington, Delaware. Gooch, Jones, and Swafford are amongst 9 gamers who've joined LIV Golf and completed the common season among the many prime 125 within the FedEx Cup standings. The opposite six who joined LIV Golf should not asking to play within the tour’s postseason.
In a court docket submitting yesterday to oppose the non permanent restraining order, the tour argued antitrust legal guidelines don't permit the three gamers “to have their cake and eat it, too.”
“Plaintiffs have waited almost two months to hunt aid from the Court docket, fabricating an ‘emergency’ they now keep requires quick motion,” the submitting mentioned. “It doesn’t.”
The tour contends gamers knew they'd be ineligible for the FedEx Cup playoffs “once they accepted hundreds of thousands from LIV to breach their agreements” with the PGA. AP
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