PGA Suspends All Players Who Joined Saudi Golf Event

June 9, 2022 Politics, Sports

ESPN reports:

The PGA Tour has suspended the 17 members who are competing in the inaugural LIV Golf event, it announced Thursday. Players who resigned their membership before starting the LIV Golf event being held outside London that began Thursday are also no longer eligible to compete in tour events or the Presidents Cup.

“These players have made their choice for their own financial-based reasons,” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan wrote in a memo to the tour’s membership.

The memo said players who compete in LIV events are ineligible to participate on the PGA Tour or any other tours it sanctions, including the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Champions, PGA Tour Canada and PGA Tour Latinoamerica.

The Daily Beast reports:



Among those subject to the suspension are Phil Mickelson [photo], who reportedly signed a $200 million deal to play in the LIV series, and 2020 Masters winner Dustin Johnson.

The LIV Golf project has been derided as an extreme case of sportswashing for the Saudi regime by some critics, which has seen the kingdom wage an unprecedented challenge to the elite establishment of golf.

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