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The DP World Tour, previously the European Tour, introduced it has fined and suspended member golfers who participated within the inaugural LIV Golf collection occasion earlier this month.
The primary occasion for the Saudi-backed breakaway collection happened on the Centurion Membership simply north of London from June 9 to 11.
The DP World Tour stated the golfers who breached the Tour’s rules have been fined £100,000 and suspended from taking part within the Scottish Open, Barbasol Championship and the Barracuda Championships.
“Each motion anybody takes in life comes with a consequence and it’s no totally different in skilled sport, particularly if an individual chooses to interrupt the principles. That’s what has occurred right here with a number of of our members,” DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley stated in a press release saying the information Friday.
“Many members I’ve spoken to in current weeks expressed the perspective that those that have chosen this route haven’t solely disrespected them and our Tour, but additionally the meritocratic ecosystem {of professional} golf that has been the bedrock of our sport for the previous half a century and which may even be the muse upon which we construct the following 50 years.
“Their actions usually are not truthful to nearly all of our membership and undermine the Tour, which is why we’re taking the motion now we have introduced at present.”
The DP World Tour additionally warned that future participation within the LIV Golf collection, with out the required launch, may incur additional sanctions.
LIV Golf is organized by LIV Golf Investments and backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF) – a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the person who a US intelligence report named as chargeable for approving the operation that led to the 2018 homicide of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Bin Salman has denied involvement in Khashoggi’s killing.
Earlier this month, the PGA Tour introduced that every one golfers who performed within the controversial collection will not be eligible to take part in Tour sanctioned tournaments.
There are seven LIV occasions remaining this yr, together with an occasion in Portland that begins June 30 and a event at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership in Bedminster, New Jersey, with the primary spherical on July 29.
