The PGA Tour responded Wednesday to the antitrust lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court last month with a 71-page motion that included a counterclaim against LIV Golf for contractual interference.
The Tour’s response to the lawsuit, which was originally filed by 11 Tour members who had been suspended for violating the circuit’s policies and playing the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league, claimed the suspended players knowingly violated its policies.
“Through this lawsuit, LIV asks the court to invalidate these wholly legitimate provisions with the stroke of a pen after inducing the remaining player plaintiffs to violate those same regulations with hundreds of millions of dollars in Saudi money,” the response read.