In a memo to membership early Thursday, the PGA Tour announced that any current and future players in the LIV Golf Invitational Series are indefinitely suspended.
The announcement came less than an hour after the rival league kicked off play Thursday at the Centurion Club outside London, with a 48-man field featuring a handful of PGA Tour stalwarts, including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia.
Commissioner Jay Monahan said that the 17 Tour players competing in the inaugural LIV event are in violation of the Tour’s tournament regulations, since the Tour did not grant conflicting-event releases.