These members who performed at LIV’s opening occasion at Centurion earlier this month have been fined £100,000. That’s the high quality for breaching Tour rules in taking part in in a competing occasion with out a participant launch.
They’ve additionally been banned from the Genesis Scottish Open on July 7-10. They’re additionally banned from the 2 different occasions co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour beneath the strategic partnership. These are the Barbasol Championship (July 7-10) and the Barracuda Championship (July 14-17).
The DP World Tour’s personal rules – or maybe the dearth of them – imply that they must take LIV Golf rebels on a tournament-by-tournament foundation.
The PGA Tour indefinitely suspended their 17 members – together with Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson – who performed at Centurion. The identical sanction awaits Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau, who’ve indicated their intention to play within the second LIV occasion in Portland subsequent week.
Nevertheless the DP World Tour’s much less restrictive rules imply sanctions are piecemeal. Actually, the one efficient punishment right here is banning the rebels from the Scottish Open, at Renaissance close to North Berwick in two weeks.
And the co-sanctioning settlement with the PGA Tour made that unavoidable. At the very least if Wentworth was to not break ranks fully with their strategic companions.
Greg Norman, the entrance man for Saudi-financed LIV Golf, has already mentioned they are going to pay all fines and authorized charges incurred by gamers.
£100,000 is definitely only a contact lower than the assured price for enjoying at Centurion. It’s additionally not likely a major sum for many of those gamers, even earlier than they signed up for the tens of millions out there on the insurgent tour.
For what it’s value, the fines will likely be added to current prizefunds and the tour’s Golf for Good charity drive.
The DP World tour confused in an announcement that “participation in an additional conflicting event or tournaments with out the required launch might incur additional sanctions.”
Chief Govt Keith Pelley mentioned that penalties had been needed for tour members who broke the foundations.
“Many members I’ve spoken to in current weeks expressed the point of view that those that have chosen this route haven’t solely disrespected them and our Tour.
“But in addition the meritocratic ecosystem {of professional} golf that has been the bedrock of our sport for the previous half a century and which can even be the inspiration upon which we construct the subsequent 50 years,” he mentioned.
“Their actions will not be honest to the vast majority of our membership and undermine the Tour, which is why we’re taking the motion we’ve introduced at the moment.”
