Sergio Garcia is the lone golfer of the 17 who defected from the DP World Tour to LIV Golf in 2022 to not pay his $125,000 superb by a court-required deadline, the DP World Tour introduced Thursday.
Sports Resolutions, an impartial panel based mostly within the United Kingdom, dominated in an arbitration case final month that the DP World Tour can superb and droop gamers who competed in conflicting tournaments -- on this case, 17 who performed within the inaugural LIV Golf occasion final June in London -- with out permission.
The DP World Tour known as it a critical breach of its rules for exemptions and code of conduct. After a bunch of gamers filed an enchantment and had been granted an injunction to play within the Genesis Scottish Open, the authorized battle went earlier than a U.Ok. arbitration panel in February. The DP World Tour gained the case in April.
The DP World Tour had introduced Wednesday that Garcia, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Richard Bland had resigned their memberships within the tour, making them ineligible to play within the Ryder Cup.
On Thursday, the tour stated 16 gamers have paid the superb: Poulter, Westwood, Bland, Laurie Canter, Branden Grace, Justin Harding, Sam Horsfield, Martin Kaymer, Pablo Larrazabal, Graeme McDowell, Shaun Norris, Wade Ormsby, Adrian Otaegui, Patrick Reed, Charl Schwartzel and Bernd Wiesberger.
“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 DP World Tour stated in a press release. “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.”
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