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PGA Tour used suspensions, threats to head off Saudi-backed league, top golfers claim in US antitrust suit

By Michael Acton
  • 03 Aug 2022 19:57
  • 03 Aug 2022 20:33
The PGA Tour engaged in an “intentional and relentless effort to crush nascent competition,” suspending golfers and threatening lifetime bans if they played in events run by Saudi-backed rival golf league LIV Golf, according to a US lawsuit filed today.
The complaint from Phil Mickelson, Talor Gooch and nine other

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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