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Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods have been subpoenaed to appear in court as the fallout between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf rumbles on.
The ongoing saga took another twist this week when TMRW Sports – a new company formed by the two major champions – announced the arrival of TGL.
The PGA-accredited contest will be introduced in 2024 and showcase six teams of three players, and will be played in a ‘custom-built venue’.
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The venture is deemed a robust move to stave off the threat of the rebel LIV tour, with CEO Greg Norman offering huge sums of money to secure signings such as Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Sergio Garcia, while Henrik Stenson was stripped of the 2023 European Ryder Cup captaincy over his move.
Open champion Cameron Smith has all but admitted he’s soon to join them, and last week PGA Tour players held crisis talks ahead of the second FedEX playoff event. Whilst McIlroy, 33, was already involved as a competitor, Woods flew in especially in a bid to rally players, reports the Irish Mirror.
The two were joined by 22 others, and it seems proposals for the stadium-based virtual league were outlined. The rebel tour have since responded with a blunt statement which read: “LIV Golf is clearly the best thing that’s ever happened to help the careers of professional golfers.”
And now Freedom Watch, a US company founded by Larry Klayman which ‘works to protect and promote freedom in the U.S. and around the world’ has announced Woods and McIlroy will be summoned “with regard to their participation in a recent players’ meeting at Wilmington Country Club.”