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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy have been served subpoenas to testify in court regarding the PGA Tour’s players-only meeting that took place at the BMW Championship in Wilmington, Delaware last week, according to USA TODAY.
The subpoenas issued to Woods and McIlroy come as lawyer Larry Klayman seeks to prove that the meeting was “anticompetitive and violative of the antitrust laws vis a vis the LIV Golf Tour and its players.”
Klayman believes that the PGA Tour is seeking to emulate LIV Golf while continuing to harm LIV and its players by working to deny world ranking points and entrance into the four major championships.
Klayman released the following statement regarding the subpoenas.
“This is not a personal ‘thing’ against Woods, McIlroy, and Monahan,” Klayman began.
“It’s about getting information about what occurred at the players’ meeting and generally with regard to allegations in our complaint that the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and their commissioners Jay Monahan and Keith Pelley, are allegedly colluding in restraint of trade and the antitrust laws to harm the LIV Golf Tour and its players,” he added.
Klayman has been a staunch defender of the LIV Golf Tour over the past few months, specifically through his representation of former PGA Tour member and current LIV Golf participant Patrick Reed.
Reed filed a lawsuit against the Golf Channel and analyst Brandel Chamblee, as the golfer alleges that Chamblee has been “targeting Reed since he was 23” and that the Golf Channel has conspired with the PGA Tour to “defame other LIV players and LIV.” Reed is seeking $750 million in damages in the suit.
