The European tour was within its rights to sanction members who competed on the Saudi-funded LIV Golf without permission, an independent tribunal ruled Thursday.
An appeal panel at Sports Resolutions found that a number of players, including Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood, committed "serious breaches" of the European tour's code of behavior by playing in LIV Golf events last year.The ruling allows the European tour to impose fines of 100,000 pounds on players who competed in the rival league without a conflicting events release.
"I'm delighted they've recognized the responsibility we have as an organization to administer our rules and regulations," Pelley said in a conference call from the Masters. "That's really important. These rules and regulations were created by the members for the members to protect the members who signed them.""It's not OK to sign up for something and then arbitrarily not adhere to those rules and regulations," Pelley said.
"This is their choice," Pelley said. "If they adhere to the consequences, if they pay the fines, if they live up to the consequences for breaching what we impose on the future, we welcome them back."The European tour imposed the fine on members competing at the inaugural LIV event at the Centurion Club outside London last June and suspended them from the Scottish Open.
"It is, of course, regrettable that resources, both financial and staffing, which could have been otherwise deployed across our organization, have been impacted by this lengthy arbitration process," Pelley said.
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