Ian Poulter is among the many golfers who’ve been granted entry into the Scottish Open due to the courts.

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Litigation over the controversial LIV Golf league has formally begun — and the defectors have scored their first victory.

In keeping with a launch from the DP World Tour, the suspensions of Ian Poulter, Justin Harding and Adrian Otaegui have been briefly stayed as their case works its means via the appeals course of. The trio of gamers have been amongst these suspended and fined by the DP World Tour final month after they competed within the LIV Golf Invitational in London and not using a conflicting occasion launch kind. They’ll now be eligible to compete on this week’s Scottish Open.

Keith Pelley delivers harsh response to LIV golfers threatening authorized motion
By:

Sean Zak

DP World Tour Chief Government Keith Pelley, who’s on the JP McManus Professional-Am in Eire this week, declined to offer an in depth response on the matter whereas at Adare Manor, however he did say he was “disenchanted by the end result of [the] listening to.”

“You will need to bear in mind, nevertheless, that is solely a keep of the sanctions imposed, pending the listening to of the gamers’ attraction as as to whether these sanctions have been acceptable,” he added.

Pelley had beforehand introduced suspensions from the Scottish Open (together with two different occasions the DP World Tour co-sanctions with the PGA Tour) for many who competed in LIV Golf occasions. He then issued a harsh response to those that threatened authorized motion.

Poulter, who’s competing on the similar pro-am, informed the BBC earlier this week he was disenchanted in Pelley’s determination and mentioned he supposed to “[fight] for his rights to play golf.”

“I really feel disenchanted, and offended that I’ve been suspended from enjoying golf on a Tour that I’ve performed for twenty-four years,” Poulter mentioned.

The DP World Tour will announce adjustments to the Scottish Open subject later within the week, however the subject dimension will now exceed the everyday 156 gamers.

“We’ll make additional touch upon this sooner or later,” Pelley mentioned. “However not throughout our time at Adare Manor.”

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