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The Daily Drive is a golf journalism subscription newsletter on Substack.
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“Player freedom is the reason LIV Golf was created …”

Note: LIV was the only tour that made its events mandatory for players to participate in. Its definition of “freedom” isn’t the same as the dictionary’s.
David Rumsey Verified account @_DavidRumsey Oct 14
LIV attorney Ryan Fitzgerald brings up the DP World Tour saying it won't allow LIV players next year.

"We're continuing to monitor this situation very closely, and we're quite concerned by it, frankly," Fitzgerald said. "We're reserving all rights and remedies and respect to these statements that are made."

"Frankly, the timing in particular strikes us as a clear attempt to interfere with our process, with our players, and potentially our reorganization writ large."

"And it also raises a lot of the same anti-competitive concerns that LIV has expressed previously regarding the way competing leagues have sought to box out and punish market participants—namely these players—from participating and LIV and really only LIV."

"Player freedom is the reason LIV Golf was created, and it's the foundation of LIV Golf 2.0. ... It's unfortunate that another tour is taking an opposite view and pressuring our players with a false choice. And again, we're reserving all rights in this respect."
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LIV has never understood that its product — which requires players to compete in every event — is competing and interfering with other leagues. Other tours have every right to protect themselves by enforcing rules and restricting players from playing in competing events.
David Rumsey Verified account @_DavidRumsey Oct 14
LIV attorney Ryan Fitzgerald brings up the DP World Tour saying it won't allow LIV players next year.

"We're continuing to monitor this situation very closely, and we're quite concerned by it, frankly," Fitzgerald said. "We're reserving all rights and remedies and respect to these statements that are made."

"Frankly, the timing in particular strikes us as a clear attempt to interfere with our process, with our players, and potentially our reorganization writ large."

"And it also raises a lot of the same anti-competitive concerns that LIV has expressed previously regarding the way competing leagues have sought to box out and punish market participants—namely these players—from participating and LIV and really only LIV."

"Player freedom is the reason LIV Golf was created, and it's the foundation of LIV Golf 2.0. ... It's unfortunate that another tour is taking an opposite view and pressuring our players with a false choice. And again, we're reserving all rights in this respect."
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