The PGA Tour is bracing itself for an imminent legal challenge from LIV rebels trying to win the right to appear in next month’s £60 million FedEx Cup playoffs.
The lawyers’ intervention would be a further escalation in a controversy that one former US Ryder Cup captain has claimed could even see Tour players threatening to boycott majors en masse to force out the Saudi-paid players.
That staggering claim was made by Davis Love III, a hugely-respected figure in the locker room who has skippered his country on two occasions in the biennial dust-up, most recently the US's 2016 victory, and who is leading Team USA again in September’s President Cup.