{"id":43699,"date":"2022-08-12T23:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T23:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/liv-golfers-different-attitudes-towards-legal-action-offers-insight-into-motivations-golf\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T23:14:42","slug":"liv-golfers-different-attitudes-towards-legal-action-offers-insight-into-motivations-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/liv-golfers-different-attitudes-towards-legal-action-offers-insight-into-motivations-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV golfers’ different attitudes towards legal action offers insight into motivations | Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I<\/span><\/span>t would be unwise to place blind faith in the comments of a judge during a commercial dispute. In the case of LIV Golf and associated chaos, a sporting resolution chamber in the UK placed a stay on suspensions of DP World, formerly European, Tour golfers long before this week’s dramatic events in a courtroom in California. Interpretations of the law, however, are rarely an exact science.<\/span><\/p>\n

In contrast to the UK, Judge Beth Labson Freeman determined the PGA Tour was well within its rights to exclude Matt Jones, Talor Gooch and Hudson Swafford from a playoff berth they had earned via on-course pursuits because it was undermined by an off-course swag grab. \u201cIf LIV Golf is elite golf’s future, what do the players care about the dust-collecting trophies of a bygone era?\u201d asked Freeman in her written reasoning. It felt a valid point.<\/p>\n

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In an open letter to Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour’s commissioner, the LIV chief, Greg Norman, once stated: \u201cYou can’t ban players from playing golf.\u201d Norman’s sentiment was equally clear during correspondence with Sergio Garc\u00eda. \u201cThey cannot ban you for one day let alone life,\u201d said Norman. \u201cIt is a shallow threat.\u201d The entry list for this week’s St Jude in Memphis says otherwise. \u201cI said to some of the guys personally, I think they’ve been brainwashed by the way they feel so adamant that they’re going to be back out on the PGA Tour,\u201d said Billy Horschel, the world No 15. In court , Judge Freeman had stated: \u201cThese LIV contracts lock up players up in a way the PGA Tour never imagined. They are so restrictive.\u201d So much for Norman’s insistence of bringing \u201cfree agency\u201d.<\/p>\n

No sooner had the LIV trio been denied a tee time in Tennessee than Rory McIlroy touched on an intriguing aspect of the ongoing civil war. \u201cI certainly have a little more respect for the guys that haven’t put their names to the argument,\u201d said the Northern Irishman.<\/p>\n

The broader, antitrust case to which McIlroy referred involves Jones, Gooch and Swafford plus Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Ian Poulter, Peter Uilhein, Jason Kokrak, Pat Perez and Abraham Ancer. Carlos Ortiz’s name was removed from the claim in recent days.<\/p>\n

The distinction \u2013 and it is necessary \u2013 between LIV golfers and their attitudes is an important one. That is absolutely the case in the minds of McIlroy and others, who do not take kindly to potential harm, monetary and reputational, being inflicted on the PGA Tour by a group who at least gave the impression of riding off into a superior world.<\/p>\n

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<\/svg><\/span>Rory McIroy says he has more respect for the LIV players not embroiled in the arguments.<\/span> Photograph: Stacy Revere\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week, Richard Bland \u2013 an early LIV convert \u2013 is competing in the $1.5m World Invitational at Galgorm Castle on the DP World Tour. Nothing stops Bland from doing this \u2013 just as Poulter or Henrik Stenson cannot be prevented from competing in the Czech Masters and PGA Championship at Wentworth – but it is a terrible look. And for what? Dust-collecting trophies?<\/p>\n

Maybe the Ryder Cup falls into that category. The main court battle between Mickelson et al and the PGA Tour is not likely to begin until next autumn which will rule DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Brooks Koepka out of the meeting with Europe in Rome barring exceptional performances in the majors to earn ranking points needed for qualification or unlikely captain’s picks. Johnson, Reed and Koepka have been nowhere near litigation, which lends itself to the theory LIV, for them, really is only about money rather than a fresh professional domain. DeChambeau has made great play of being the best he can be yet here he is, all-but excluded from a team competition where legends are created.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda ruled out legal challenges the moment he joined LIV. The Spaniard awaits the exact lie of the land European Ryder Cup qualification regarding before resigning or retaining membership of the DP World Tour. Poulter is involved in litigation against tours on both sides of the Atlantic. Stenson threw his hands up and cried foul having been removed as Europe’s Ryder Cup captain. Louis Oosthuizen, Martin Kaymer and a batch of others could have entered last month’s Scottish Open after the stay against a ban was issued. Instead, they stayed well clear. Unlike Norman and Mickelson, Oosthuizen \u2013 who considered retirement before LIV came calling \u2013 appeared for the past champions’ celebrations at the Open minus any fuss at all.<\/p>\n

Cameron Smith’s glory at St Andrews means he can defect to LIV while safe in the knowledge of major exemptions for the foreseeable future. Smith’s insistence this week that he will compete in this year’s President’s Cup was curious given he will be banned from that event, presided over by the PGA Tour, if he tees up in the LIV tournament in Boston early next month.<\/p>\n

Golf is presently the most volatile of all sports. Judge Freeman made plain golfers were handsomely rewarded for following the LIV path. A tacky, tawdry, non-competitive sportswashing scene is hardly appealing. It would be a mistake, however, to assume every golfer has adopted the same approach while entering it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would be unwise to place blind faith in the comments of a judge during a commercial dispute. In the case of LIV Golf and associated chaos, a sporting resolution chamber in the UK placed a stay on suspensions of DP World, formerly European, Tour golfers long before this week’s dramatic events in a courtroom …<\/p>\n

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