A panel in England ruled that professional golf's European tour is within its rights to punish defecting LIV Golf players, a blow for the Saudi-backed tour.
The LIV golfers challenged those penalties at Sport Resolutions, an arbitration service in London, and the two sides presented their cases to a three-person panel over five days in February.The panel ruled in a decision announced Thursday that the DP World Tour was within its rights to penalize the LIV players because the players committed “serious breaches” of the tour’s code of behavior by playing in LIV events despite the denial of their requests to be released.
“We are delighted that the panel recognized we have a responsibility to our full membership to do this and also determined that the process we followed was fair and proportionate,” DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley said in a statement. “In deciding the level of these sanctions last June, we were simply administering the regulations which were created by our members and which each of them signed up to.
The ruling means the DP World Tour can effectively ban LIV players from its tournaments, because it can issue two-tournament suspensions each time they play in conflicting LIV events. There are nine LIV tournaments that conflict with DP World Tour events this season, and the resulting 18-tournament suspension would keep them out of the remaining European events.
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