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Power to Punish LIV Golfers Faces a Legal Test in Europe

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An arbitration panel will meet next week to weigh whether the European Tour may penalize the men who played on the Saudi-backed circuit.

Ian Poulter, who has competed on the European Tour for more than two decades, is among the players who joined LIV Golf and were punished by the tour.Credit...Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Many of the golfers had wandered away one afternoon last week, seeking lunch or refuge from the Emirati sun or something besides the monotony of a driving range.

Ian Poulter, though, kept swinging, the consistency nearly enough to disguise that there is almost no professional golfer in greater limbo.