{"id":803411,"date":"2026-10-15T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803411\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:22:11","slug":"liv-golf-accuses-dp-world-tour-of-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803411\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf accuses DP World Tour of ‘interference’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tLIV Golf have fired back at the DP World Tour after a ruling that came as a crushing blow to the breakaway league\u2026<\/p>\n

LIV Golf has accused the DP World Tour of making a \u201cclear attempt\u201d to interfere in their bankruptcy hearing after the circuit confirmed it would refuse to accept the league\u2019s players next season.<\/p>\n

The DP World Tour will block any membership<\/a> applications from players also wishing to play LIV 2.0, a proposed relaunched league that the league hopes to emerge after its restructuring process in 2027.<\/p>\n

Guy Kinnings, the CEO of the DP World Tour, said that the hard line policy<\/a> means \u201cplayers need to make a choice\u201d between the two tours next season.<\/p>\n

And a lawyer representing LIV at a court hearing on Wednesday offered a dim view on a damaging development for the league\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to monitor this situation very closely, and we\u2019re quite concerned by it, frankly,\u201d attorney Rob Fitzgerald told the court. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re reserving all rights and remedies and respect to these statements that are made. Frankly, the timing in particular strikes us as a clear attempt to interfere with our process, with our players, and potentially our reorganization writ large.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it also raises a lot of the same anti-competitive concerns that LIV has expressed previously regarding the way competing leagues have sought to box out and punish market participants \u2013 namely these players \u2013 from participating in LIV and really only LIV.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayer freedom is the reason LIV Golf was created, and it\u2019s the foundation of LIV Golf 2.0. It\u2019s unfortunate that another tour is taking an opposite view and pressuring our players with a false choice. And again, we\u2019re reserving all rights in this respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DP World Tour is not responding to Fitzgerald\u2019s comments, but refers back to Kinnings\u2019 explanation that was first given to BBC Sport<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we have said for many years, we have rules and regulations which are there to protect our tour and which our members must all abide by,\u201d Kinnings said. \u201cPlayers who are not willing to comply with our rules and regulations should not be seeking to join our tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DP World Tour\u2019s move has made it challenging for LIV players to fill out their schedules next season, beyond the 10 events initially planned for the league\u2019s relaunch.<\/p>\n

LIV is hoping to secure a cash injection of $300 million<\/a> from private equity firm BC Partners, but that will depend on LIV securing a \u201csufficient number of players\u201d to have a \u201cbona fide golf league\u201d by an October 25 deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working hard around the clock both on the player front and on the structural front,\u201d Fitzgerald said. The attorney also said that he anticipates a decision being made on whether LIV would remain operational next season by \u201cthe end of the month\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, has defended the DP World Tour\u2019s decision to block LIV players. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think the DP World Tour have been more than accommodating to LIV players,\u201d he said in India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, they\u2019ve had to maybe do some things that have been conditional to their membership, like play a couple extra events this year, but I think this was always coming down the line. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think the DP World Tour have made a good decision, because the golf landscape, I feel like it\u2019s been constantly changing for the last four, five years. It\u2019s now got to the point where guys are going to have to make a decision and what\u2019s important to them and what they really want to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DP World Tour are well within their rights to change the rules and regulations. This is the way to protect their business and to make the tour as strong as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf have fired back at the DP World Tour after a ruling that came as a crushing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}