The DP World Tour has won its legal battle against LIV Golf players and will be able to punish them for playing in conflicting events without permission, according to reports.
A three-strong arbitration panel heard five days of arguments from lawyers for a group of 13 LIV Golf stars and those representing the DP World Tour in February in an attempt to clarify the playing status of the former on the latter. The case arose when players requested "conflicting event" releases from the DP World Tour in order to play the inaugural LIV Golf event in Hemel Hempstead last June. Those requests were booted out but the players competed at Centurion Club anyway and were fined £100,000 and suspended from the Scottish Open.
Initially Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui and Justin Harding appealed against the decision and the punishments were stayed pending a substantive appeal, allowing the players to compete in DP World Tour events throughout, with Otaegui winning the Andalucia Masters in October.
