Lee Westwood has hit back at a former footballer who compared the Englishman’s controversial move to LIV Golf to match fixing.
Westwood took part in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth as one of a number of LIV Golf players to do so. The lucrative and wholly controversial LIV Golf series is funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and it has divided golf, leaving the PGA and DP World Tours fractured after the new series poached some of the sports biggest names.
Players who have joined the LIV Golf series - bankrolled by a Saudi Arabian regime renowned for their human rights abuses - were handed immediate and indefinite bans from the PGA Tour. The DP World Tour have implied they will fine the rebels and suspend them from future events but they haven’t issued a ban just yet.
