Last month an independent United Kingdom-based panel, Sports Resolutions, ruled in favor of the DP World Tour to be able to fine and suspend players who competed in LIV Golf events without permission.
On Thursday, the tour released a statement that 16 of the 17 players have paid their £100,000 fines, “which were imposed for serious breaches of the Tour’s Conflicting Tournament Regulation last June,” after players were sanctioned for teeing it up in the inaugural LIV Golf event in London without a conflicting event exemption from the tour.
According to the tour, the following 16 players have paid: Richard Bland, Laurie Canter, Branden Grace, Justin Harding, Sam Horsfield, Martin Kaymer, Pablo Larrazabal, Graeme McDowell, Shaun Norris, Wade Ormsby, Adrian Otaegui, Ian Poulter, Patrick Reed, Charl Schwartzel, Lee Westwood and Bernd Wiesberger.
The outlier? None other than Sergio Garcia, who resigned his membership from the DP World Tour on Wednesday alongside Bland, Poulter and Westwood.
“Sergio Garcia has not paid his £100,000 fine, nor has he given any indication that he intends to. We will therefore take appropriate action if he continues not to respect the Sport Resolutions panel’s decision,” the statement read. “Details of further sanctions for players who breached the Conflicting Tournament Regulation by playing in subsequent conflicting events without a release, will be announced next week.”
