![]() As you know, there are a lot – not only LIV events, Asian Tour events, other tour events – that players ask for releases, and some of those have been rejected and now we have to go back and look at those. “We are grateful for the fact the panel felt that was a reasonable and proportionate fine. “There’s going to be a lot of collective discussions and collective joint decision-making, similar to the way that we went through the process to do the very first fine at the Centurion Club,” Pelley said. Keith Pelley said the DP World Tour ‘were simply administering the regulations created by our members and which each of them signed up to’. The prospect remains that the players could be hit with a further and hefty bill. Pelley would not disclose whether his tour would seek to apply further, including retrospective, penalties. It now remains to be seen whether there will be an appeal against this decision, possibly to the court of arbitration for sport, with LIV’s backing, or if the golfers simply resign from the DP World Tour. LIV remains focused on its decades-long vision to enhance the game and is looking forward to its upcoming tournament in Australia in front of 70,000 fans.” “This is a sacred week in the global sports calendar and the on-course competition is what matters. By punishing players for playing golf, the DPWT is seeking to unreasonably control and it is the sport and fans that suffer. Matthew Schwartz, counsel to LIV Golf, said: “We disagree with the procedural opinion from the DP World Tour’s arbitral body, which has failed to address in reasonable substance why competitive forces must be upheld. But you can’t break rules and regulations that are set up by the members for the members, that they have signed up to, with no consequences. “I’ve said all along, I don’t begrudge any of them for going at any time. They knew that there was going to be consequences. “They have chosen where they want to play. Westwood, Poulter, Sergio García, Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDowell are household names in European golf, but now compete on the LIV tour. “There’s rules and regulations everywhere and it’s not OK to just sign up for something and then just arbitrarily decide not to adhere to those rules and regulations. ![]() “Sports organisations now will look at this landmark case and understand that they have rules and regulations. ![]() “It’s great that it has given us clarity, not just for golf but for sports organisations,” Pelley said. Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood are among the players who now have to pay £100,000 within 30 days. The ruling said the golfers in question “committed serious breaches of the code of behaviour” of the DP World Tour.
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