Judge Beth Labson Freeman sets 2024 as date for LIV Golf players' trial against PGA Tour

Updated 01/09/2022 at 15:00 GMT

LIV Golf is disrupting the sport, with big-name players brought in on the back of massive contract offers. Those who jumped ship from the PGA Tour have been suspended, but a group of 10 - including Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and Ian Poulter - are challenging that suspension in court. A judge in California has set a date, but it will not be until 2024.

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LIV Golf has disrupted the game, with the Saudi-funded startup wooing players with massive contracts.

All players who have defected from the PGA Tour have been suspended - other than those who elected to resign their memberships - but a group of 10 are challenging that in court.

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A hearing before Judge Beth Labson Freeman took place on Thursday and she set a date of July 23, 2023, for a summary judgement hearing and a trial date of January 8, 2024.

Lawyers for the players sought a trial date of August 7, 2023. That is the Monday before the first event of the FedEx Cup play-offs, and the Tour’s lead attorney Elliot Peters said that was “not reasonable or realistic.”

“The commissioner and the other significant people from the Tour who will likely be subpoenaed; that’s a tough date for them,” Peters said.

Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Hudson Swafford, Talor Gooch, Matt Jones, Ian Poulter, Abraham Ancer, Pat Perez, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein are the 10 who have filed the lawsuit, but the Peters suggested that number could fall as he referenced “dropping plaintiffs”. Carlos Ortiz was on the original lawsuit but later removed his name.

There have been three LIV events so far, with the fourth due to take place in Boston at the start of September.

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