PGA Tour Under Investigation for Potential Antitrust Violations amid LIV Conflict

According to Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice is looking into the possible anticompetitive behavior of the PGA Tour.

The players' agents have been contacted by the DOJ's antitrust division to discuss the recent actions of the golf tour.

The upstart league is backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and has several high-profile golf players joining.

The PGA Tour suspended players who competed in the LIV Golf inaugural event, while those who resigned their memberships would not be allowed to compete in Tour events.

Increased purses and a smaller schedule are some of the changes made by the PGA Tour in order to keep players on the tour.

Good competition is welcome. The LIV Saudi Golf League is not a golf league. The threat is not concerned with the return on investment or true growth of the game.

The PGA Tour is undeterred by the Department of Justice's investigation.

The new probe was not unexpected according to the spokesman. We went through this in 1994.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission looked into the anticompetitive practices of the PGA Tour in 1994.

The FTC looked into a rule that banned players from competing in non-PGA events without the permission of the commissioner. A key part of the story is that players were not given a release to play in the London event.

LIV Golf participants are eligible to play in majors, which are not run by the PGA Tour, but other events could be affected.