Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood are among 16 LIV Golf players who have threatened the DP World Tour with legal action after being banned from the Scottish Open and fined £100,000.
In a letter obtained by The Telegraph, the 16 players, which will likely include Europeans such as Poulter, Westwood, Sergio Garcia, Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer, said that the Tour’s actions to ban and fine players “will have adverse consequences on the DP World Tour.”
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The letter also ‘implored’ the DP World Tour to “reconsider your recent penalties and sanctions” and rescind the fines and suspensions by 5pm on Friday. If the Tour doesn’t rescind the bans and fines, the players will be taking legal action. “If not, you will leave us with no choice but to employ the various other means and methods at our disposal to rectify these wrongs,” the letter reads.
The letter also criticised the Tour’s link up with the PGA Tour and specifically the co-sanctioned Scottish Open and Barracuda Championship, saying that some DP World Tour players have been forced out of the Scottish Open to make way for PGA Tour players and have instead been made to fly to Kentucky to play for a smaller purse in the week before the 150th Open. The PGA Tour is also reportedly helping players with travel costs to the Scottish Open, which is something the DP World Tour is not doing for its players who’ll be teeing it up in the Barracuda.
The 16 players were also critical of the DP World Tour’s new deal with the PGA Tour that will see the top 10 players on the Race to Dubai rankings earn cards for the US circuit. “That the DP World Tour top performers will now earn PGA Tour cards serves only to solidify the DP World Tour as second fiddle to the PGA Tour and depletes the DP World Tour’s top rising talent even further,” the letter reads.
Read the letter:
“In Mr Pelley’s latest communication, he uses the statement that every action in life comes with a consequence. We agree, and we are concerned that the actions of the Tour against us, LIV Golf, and golf in general will…
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