Amid pressure from the United States Justice Department regarding their potential merger, the PGA Tour and the LIV Golf League have reportedly renounced a key provision of their tentative deal.
According to Alan Blinder, Lauren Hirsch and Kevin Draper of the New York Times, the two sides have "abandoned" their promise not to poach each other's players.
According to the report, the decision made by the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund "was an early casualty of an antitrust review by Justice Department regulators, who are expected to decide in the coming months whether to try to block the transaction.