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The Britons were among the European tour's members who were
banned from three upcoming DP World Tour events and fined
100,000 pounds ($121,230.00) each after playing in the Saudi
Arabia-backed LIV Golf's opening event in London.
"Instead of spending our time, energy, financial resources and
focus on appeals, injunctions and lawsuits, we would implore you
... to reconsider your recent penalties and sanctions," the
letter read, according to the Telegraph.
The players called on the tour to "rescind your fines and
suspensions by 5:00 p.m. on Friday".
"If not, you will leave us with no choice but to employ the
various other means and methods at our disposal to rectify these
wrongs."
The U.S.-based PGA Tour, which announced a 13-year partnership
with the DP World Tour this week, has also suspended players for
joining the breakaway circuit.
The players said in the letter that the alliance would have a
negative impact on DP World Tour players.
"Approximately 40 DP World Tour members who would have been
eligible for the Scottish Open on the DP World tour will now not
be eligible, and instead will only have the option to go and
play on the PGA Tour in Kentucky the week before The Open, for
less money but at a higher cost to participate," the letter
read.
"That the DP World Tour top performers will now earn PGA Tour
cards serves only to solidify the DP World Tour as second fiddle
to the PGA Tour and depletes the DP World Tour's top rising
talent even further."
The second LIV event teed off in Portland, Oregon on Thursday at
the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, going head-to-head with the PGA
Tour's John Deere Classic.
($1 = 0.8249 pounds)
(Reporting by Hritika Sharma in Hyderabad; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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