LIV Golf has opened a second legal front in its ongoing challenge of what it calls the existing professional golf ecosystem.
The most recent litigation was filed on Nov. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and is an extension of an antitrust lawsuit that was filed against the PGA Tour in the Northern District of California in August by a group of players who had joined LIV.
The challenge stems from LIV’s desire to depose DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley and seek discovery from the European circuit, which lawyers for the start-up circuit claim entered into a strategic alliance with the PGA Tour that was an “unlawful conspiratorial agreement.