In a flurry of overnight activity, the PGA Tour amended its countersuit against LIV Golf to include the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and its governor as defendants, while the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the court it plans to file an amicus brief in the case that has now ballooned well beyond the original antitrust implications.
Last week, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, must submit to discovery in the antitrust case that was filed against the Tour by a group of players who had joined LIV Golf. On Tuesday, the judge granted the Tour’s motion to add the PIF and Al-Rumayyan as defendants in its countersuit.