“Dropping the lawsuit”- Carlos Ortiz withdraws name from LIV Golf player’s lawsuit against PGA Tour
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Professional golfer Carlos Ortiz has pulled out from the LIV Golf lawsuit. A supporter of the antitrust case brought against the PGA Tour by 11 players from the fledgling LIV Golf series has pulled out. The lawsuit, also involved players like Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford, Matt Jones, Ian Poulter, Abraham Ancer, Pat Perez, Jason Kokrak, and Peter Uihlein, was dropped by Carlos Ortiz on Tuesday.
Ortiz still lists “PGA Tour player” on his Twitter account. The players are contesting the PGA Tour’s decision to suspend them for participating in the Greg Norman-hosted LIV Golf Invitational Series, which is funded by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
The lawsuit against PGA Tour continues
Rex Hoggard of the Golf Channel said that Carlos Rodriguez, Ortiz’s manager, acknowledged that Ortiz had made the decision to drop the lawsuit. On Monday, the PGA Tour issued the United States District Court for the Northern District of California a 32-page response to the initial case as well as a supplementary seven-page illustration of what it claims are misrepresentations and false statements made by the LIV players.
Gooch, Swafford, and Jones are requesting an injunction against the Tour so that they may participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which get underway this week with the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. The court is due to hear their complaint on Tuesday. If they hadn’t been suspended, all three players would have made the playoffs.
LIV Golf has long been condemned as a means by which the Kingdom uses guaranteed funds and multimillion-dollar contracts to whitewash its record on human rights. Saudi Arabia has been charged with a variety of human rights violations, including killings committed for political reasons, torture, forced disappearances, and cruel treatment of detainees. And Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi writer, and Washington Post columnist were killed, with members of the royal family and the Saudi government being implicated.
After making his professional debut at the second LIV Golf tournament earlier this summer in Portland, Ortiz was suspended by the Tour. Ortiz has earned more money in just two LIV events ($3.175 million) than he did in 28 outings on the Tour last season ($2,682,104).
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