A U.S. District Court judge denied the PGA Tour’s motion to change venue on Thursday in the circuit’s ongoing lawsuit with a group of more than 80 caddies.
The lawsuit was filed in February in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It claims the Tour has engaged in restraint of trade and anticompetitive conduct involving the caddie bib, and challenges the requirement that caddies wear bibs with sponsor names on them without any compensation.
Attorneys for the caddies filed the lawsuit in California because the Tour has an office in San Francisco and because of that court’s involvement in the Ed O’Bannon vs.