The LIV Golf Governor is being sued by the PGA Tour in a case that the PGA Tour has initiated.
The lawsuit against the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan was submitted on Thursday to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. Along with the filing, 50 exhibits and a proposed order for a motion to compel were included in the submission.
As part of an additional federal action that is being consolidated between the two tours, that petition to compel would call for Al-Rumayyan to be deposed. Additionally, it would necessitate the Public Investment Fund releasing records to the legal representatives of the PGA Tour.
In September, in response to LIV Golf’s antitrust action, the PGA Tour filed a countersuit, making the allegation that the competing Saudi-backed circuit has urged its members “to break their Tour agreements” and “free ride off of the Tour’s investment in the growth of professional golf.”
Phil Mickelson recently said that the PGA Tour is “moving south,” which extended the verbal spat that has been going on between players competing on both circuits.
In response, Rory McIlroy said that “anyone who has a reasonable perspective of the game” would disagree with his statement.
The antitrust case that was being brought against the PGA Tour by Mickelson and three other LIV Golfers was withdrawn earlier this month. This litigation once included a total of 11 plaintiffs, but now there are just three still involved.