Phil Mickelson and 10 Other LIV Golf Players File Antitrust Suit Against The PGA Tour
It is about time!
Time for the PGA Tour to open its books and show the world the kind of big business they do not want to give up.
Phil Mickelson and 10 other LIV players have filed an antitrust suit against PGA Tour INC over the suspensions issued by PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.
Three of the players have also filed for an injunction. The three players had qualified for the FedEx Cup prior to them joining LIV Golf, and under the new rules, they will not be allowed to play.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/phil-mickelson-10-others-from-liv-golf-file-lawsuit-against-pga-tour/
Listening to the on-field interviewer from the Golf Channel talking to some of the players at this week’s Wyndham Championships about LIV Golf and the lawsuit, was embarrassing and pathetic.
Damon Hack and Eamon Lynch were not much different in their commentary. More of the same, doing the PGA Tour bid. You can count on these two to bore you to death as they represent the Golf Channel lunatic fringe.
Having said that, I do not expect anything different from the Golf Channel. After all, they are part of the woke culture at NBC Sports. Objectivity and real journalism is not a requirement.
Paging Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, and Scottie Scheffler. Oops, once again they are not at the Wyndham Championship “supporting” the PGA Tour and the sponsor. Nothing more than whiny hypocrites.
The PGA Tour is big business and has been spending lots of money paying lobbyists in Washington to assist them in gaining political support for the PGA Tour in an attempt to prevent LIV Golf from operating.
Why would they spend money lobbying politicians? What are they afraid of?
Davis Love III, went as far as to say, “If the LIV guys sue and are allowed to play on the PGA Tour, the players are enough fed up with it.” What the heck is he saying? Is he threatening the LIV players with bodily harm?
He went on to say, “We understand we make the rules on the PGA Tour and the commissioner is enforcing our rules and we don’t want those guys playing, coming and cherry-picking our tournaments.”
Really? PGA Tour players cherry-pick their tournaments, and as long as they meet the minimum 15 event requirement, they are free to do as they wish. This is why McIlroy, Thomas, and Scheffler have not showed up for the last three regular season tournaments.
Love continued with his irrational tirade and it got even crazier. “We hold all the cards. We say to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and to Washington, ‘No, we support the rules. We don’t want those guys playing. We don’t care what the courts say.”
“The nuclear option is to say ‘Fine, if they have to play in our events we just won’t play’.”
Go ahead Davis, who cares? If you, and the rest of the PGA Tour players want to take that childish stance, no problem. I am sure that will do lots for your fan base.
He added that the suspensions issued to Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Patrick Reed, makes them ineligible to play for his President’s Cup team in September.
I’ll say the International Team will have a good opportunity to beat the United States without too much fuzz. Keeping your best players out sounds like a great strategy Davis.
If Davis Love III sounds insane to you, welcome to the club.
Commissioner Monahan should be embarrassed. He is nothing but a coward. These players go out and engage the media instead of concentrating on playing the tournaments. The media should be handle by Jay Monahan, not the players.
Jay Monahan is evil. He knows exactly what he is doing by pinning PGA Tour players against LIV Golf players. He has created this atmosphere and he should be fired.
By the way Jay, it is called LIV Golf, not the Saudi League. Stop sounding stupid and ignorant.
Jay Monahan’s salary is higher than most of the purses these players are playing for. He is worth about $12 million dollars with an annual salary of $4 million dollars. The winners purse for the Open Championship was $2.5 million. Let that marinate for a minute.
The PGA Tour is going to be exposed for the fraud they are, and the PGA Tour membership finally will see how much money the suits at Ponte Vedra have been hiding from them.
If you want to read a bit more about this so-called 501 (c) (6) outfit, indulge yourself with the links below.
https://www.newsmax.com/drewjohnson/pga-tour-golf-tax-loophole/2022/06/14/id/1074297/