US Presidents Cup captain Davis Love III hints at major player boycott if LIV players can return to PGA Tour

US Presidents Cup captain Davis Love III hints at major player boycott if LIV players can return to PGA Tour Phil Mickelson and Ian Poulter are among 11 LIV Golf players who have filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour to challenge their suspension. The team includes three players – Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones – who are seeking a temporary restraining order so they can compete in the FedEx Cup playoffs, which begin next week. The complaint and petition for a temporary restraining order were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Bryson DeChambeau, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Pat Perez, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein are the other players who have put their names forward, claiming the PGA Tour is trying to hurt their careers. Phil Mickelson and 10 other golfers have filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour
“The Tour’s conduct serves no other purpose than to cause harm to players and to exclude the entry of the first substantial competitive threat the Tour has faced in decades,” the lawsuit states. “The purpose of this action is to eliminate the PGA Tour’s anti-competitive rules and practices that prevent these independent golf contractors from playing when and where they choose.” Bryson DeChambeau is another of the players included in the lawsuit
The PA news agency has reached out to the PGA Tour for comment. Poulter was one of three members of the DP World Tour to successfully win an interim suspension from July’s Scottish Open pending a decision on their substantive appeals. Players were also fined £100,000 for taking part in the first LIV golf event in June after being rejected for the required releases. Speaking on Tuesday, former Ryder Cup captain Davis Love said PGA Tour players could take the “nuclear option” of boycotting events if the LIV rebels successfully challenge their suspension. “If the LIV guys sue and they’re allowed to play on the PGA Tour, the players are pretty fed up,” Love said at a news conference ahead of the Wyndham Championship. “We understand that we make the rules on the PGA Tour and the commissioner enforces our rules and we don’t want these guys playing, coming in and picking our tournaments. “We hold all the cards, we tell the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] and in Washington, “No, we support the rules. We don’t want these kids playing. We don’t care what the courts say.” “The nuclear option is to say, ‘Fine, if they have to play in our competitions, we’re just not going to play.’ Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood say they are unsure of their Ryder Cup fitness
Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood say they are unsure of their Ryder Cup fitness The suspension from the PGA Tour means players such as Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed cannot represent the United States at September’s Presidents Cup, when Love will captain the team. “I said to the players I’ve spoken to who have left or are thinking about leaving, it’s your decision and you do what’s right for you, but you understand [the] consequences,” Love added. “I tried to look like my father and I probably wasn’t very good at it. I wasn’t arguing. I said you can be Tiger Woods or you can be banned from the game, take your pick. “But understanding the consequences, you signed up to these rules. I had to commit by last Friday or I won’t play this week. I have to play 15 tournaments or I can’t vote and I won’t get my pension money. You have rules to follow. “I said you are correcting to break a rule which is a big rule and you will be punished for it. “And Jay’s (Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner) been saying it for a year and some of them got it, some of them said it wasn’t going to happen and some of them lied, [saying] “I don’t do this, I don’t do that.” Love admits he was “dead wrong” when he said six months ago the LIV wasn’t going to happen and that Phil Mickelson would be the only player to jump ship, but added: “I don’t know what’s going to happen between now and then. going forward. but I know it’s going to be a fight and the players are getting more and more united against it.”

Horschel: It doesn’t make sense | Zalatoris: Player actions are detrimental to our Tour | Cink: The truth is starting to come out

Several current players have discussed the 11 LIV golfers who have filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour… Billy Horschel: “Why? Why should they come and play the PGA Tour? They decided to go play the LIV Tour, they made the decision not to follow the PGA Tour rules. “They’ve signed multi-million dollar contracts, they’re playing for a lot of money. They’ve each said they want to play less golf, so now they’re going to play more golf playing the PGA Tour? Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player Several Today’s Players Discuss The 11 LIV Golfers Who Have Filed Lawsuits Against the PGA Tour
Several Today’s Players Discuss The 11 LIV Golfers Who Have Filed Lawsuits Against the PGA Tour “Do they want to spend more time with their family? It just doesn’t make sense to me. “The question I keep asking myself that I have to ask them, and maybe the media should ask them, is what is their vision for supporting the PGA Tour? “They’ve talked about wanting to be on the PGA Tour — some of them have — and they say they still want to support the PGA Tour, but what is that vision? “The vision is not to play at least 15 events in a year on the PGA Tour, because that would be 29 events which contradicts what they said earlier: that they wanted to play less. “Their vision is to choose the events they want to play in on the PGA Tour, obviously that would be the invitationals, the players, the higher world-ranked events and the bigger events on the PGA Tour. “And that doesn’t support the PGA Tour. That means exemptions to those events, so it’s disappointing. “They made the decision to leave the PGA Tour and have to go follow their employer.” Will Zalatoris: “You know I understand their argument of saying we’re independent contractors, but what they’re doing going there is detrimental to our tour. “So you can’t have it both ways. We will see what will happen. “I think if they’re allowed to play, I’d like to see what they did with the Scottish Open, where they put them in their own crew. “I wouldn’t mind seeing them on their own.” Webb Simpson: “These guys were well aware of the consequences of going to LIV, so I don’t know what their train of thought is right now with trying to sue the tour when I’m sure they knew what was going to happen. “He will be suspended. The commissioner informed us of the consequences of joining LIV a long time ago, so we’ll see what happens.” Kevin Kisner: “They should just be happy with the decision they made and stay where they moved. “I hung out with Hudson Swafford a lot last week, we’re still good friends. We have our differences and that’s about life.” Zinc Stewart: “I think we’re starting to see the truth come out. “Playing less was not why the players joined another tour. Developing the game is not why the players will join another tour. “It’s about getting paid a lot. And so if you say you’d play less, but then go as far as suing to get access to more tournaments, I think you’re talking out of both sides of your mouth. .” Get the best prices and book one of our 1,700 courses across the UK and Ireland