AUGUSTA, Ga. — It's becoming the losers' tour.
The DP World Tour last year fined and suspended players for playing in a LIV Golf event without proper releases from the Tour. The penalties were frozen by an arbitration body, whose panel heard arguments in February from the likes of Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood. The Times of London reported Tuesday that the arbitrator ruled against the 13 LIV players and in favor of the Tour; an official announcement could come as early as Thursday, before the first round of the Masters begins.
PGA Tour superstar Rory McIlroy has been the chief denouncer of the renegade tour, which is the spawn of a Saudi Arabian government intent on sports-washing its oppressive regime with the faces of multiple major winners such as Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, and Brooks Koepka, who are among the 18 LIV players who qualified for the first Masters since LIV began last year.
