Professional golfer Tiger Woods, who has mostly remained mum on recent controversy, has agreed to join the policy board of the PGA Tour, in an effort to mollify players as the organization navigates the combining of business operations with its rival the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Inc., according to an announcement Tuesday.
Saudi-backed LIV Golf Inc. is fighting a motion from The New York Times to unseal documents filed in its legal clash with the PGA Tour Inc., telling a California federal judge "unfettered public access" to confidential information undermines the legitimacy and effectiveness of the judicial system.
Saudi-backed LIV Golf Inc. and the PGA Tour Inc. formally moved to put their California federal court antitrust legal battle behind them a week and a half after the surprise announcement that they would be joining forces rather than continuing to duke it out in court.
Saudi-backed LIV Golf Inc.'s chief legal officer John Loffhagen is no longer with the company, which recently announced a bombshell deal to merge with rival PGA Tour Inc. in a move intended to end the vast antitrust and contract litigation between the two promotions.
PGA Tour Inc. and Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf Inc.'s Tuesday drive to combine their operations and settle their months-long dispute could put the rival golf tours straight into an intense U.S. Department of Justice merger investigation.