Ten months of the most relentless legal wrangling the game has ever seen ended Friday when the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia agreed to end all antitrust litigation.
The motion to dismiss the case follows last week’s announcement that the Tour and the PIF had reached a “framework” agreement to create a new entity and end the litigation, which had spilled over into the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and multiple U.S. District Courts. The motion was filed with prejudice, which is significant because it means neither the antitrust case nor the Tour’s countersuit can ever be reopened.